Sacarb Meteor 5000
 

Hey Everyone,

Just took delivery of a great Meteor owned by an enthusiast in TX. He did quite a bit of work stripping the interior to the hull, outside paint, motors, drives, electronics, interior and exterior, and the trailer. He may even have done the air above. Definitely a labor of love - which is hard to appreciate unless you have been in one of these projects before (you want to spend what?), Everything not perfect but only little stuff.

This rig hauls ( 55-60 MPH cruise at under 4,000 GPM) and has the balls to scare the kids, oldies and wimps when you start skipping wakes around three grand or higher. Tope end isn't for me to discover quite yet. The motors sound sweet tuned to their synchronous humming, and the wake looks like a deranged vacuum cleaner spitting water when connect to a North Hydraulics 5 HP pressure washer (x 1,000).

My girlfriend at first thought of imminent end-of-life experience, minus the floating about looking at yourself peacefully, when we first hit the thottels at 2,000 RPM which jumped to 6,000 RPM sounding like 3 angry tractors on Nitrous just blew their speed governors, and the only question was when a piston was going to launch a lunar attempt. Suddenly it was like, "please stop, I am going to die" with tears, I felt truly sorry for a short while - while her kid's giggled in the back asking to go faster and make a bit more noise. Maybe too much of World of Warcraft does that to you, but I can't quite figure out where else they could get the experience to feel so jaded. Yeah, 2,250 HP 2 feet behind me with 3 x 10+ liter motors, but, hey look at my new life stats. OK - they are still just kids, but I remember when I was 12 and I was just.......never mind. The iPods and games were forgotten as the 2,250 HP for 3 triple Corba motors came on to song quieting any chattering in the pews. Suddenly, God was speaking through the 24 cylinders of 30 liters of 2,250HP looking to find a bite in the water. Everyone was kinda wondering who the next lunch would be and maybe now would be the time to bring up that number 2 in the clean tank might not sit well the captain.


Not to mind much. Even if you are going nowhere, you get there pretty damn fast and the bathrooms can't be too far away. Arriving looking slight dazed with hair-dos' like 1980's hair bands experimenting with wind tunnel styling, and 3rd person responses caused because the 1st person was still wandering around the boat trailer, we still managed to eat a light lunch while looking over the boats and water. Feeling happy, sunburned and a bit dazed, we headed back into our transporter to meet our sanity twiddling thrid thumbs by the pickup truck wondering, just where in the Hell went and could they come along as long as we didn't tell anyone.

NICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to OSO,,u will love it !!:party-smiley-004:

WE NEED PICTURES TOO !!!!

Welcome, lets see this beast! Get some 80's rockband styled hair pics posted.

Bill

COOL! :drink:

Here are some exterior pics
 

I will get more this weekend when I am out. Planning on going to Atlantic Highlands and maybe Sandy Hook.

Cruising Today
 

On the GPS today, 4,500 RPM is about 70 MPH. 50 MPH is around 3,000 RPM.

I looked that boat over in the classifieds several times. Great job with the restoration....just too big for me. Congrats!!!

You got a killer boat. For the folks that were interested that never saw it in person, your loss. This thing is like no other.

What a beautiful boat! Nice score

Thanks!
 

Thanks for the compliments. Boat is nice and there is lots to learn about it. Would be interesting to know the history.

Congrats on the boat. Like said before a little big for me ( I struggle sometimes with my 38') but Meteors are awesome and yours looks to be the nicest one i've seen. The only thing that I think would make a boat like that better would be big twin diesels. But that drives the price way up. But probably would bring maintenence down if run frequently though. Do you tow it? Also the post title says "Sacarb" Meteor, so make sure you didn't get a fake. Mike

No - it's not a fake! Not sure of the exact timeframe, but Wellcraft and Scarab were the same company at one point. You can search on Scarab Meteor and Wellcraft Meteor with the same result - though you can find some people calling their boats one name and some the other.

Hardest thing so far is low speed dock maneuvers. The marina is really tight! I am going to need to get a lot better especially if the wind starts blowing.

At any rate, it is a big, honkin fast boat!

You get a chance post some pics of the inside...

Is it possible to install a bow thruster?

I acutally had 2 of the HP425's that came out of that boat before it was rebuilt. It had red hull sides before the rebuild.

Nice Boat!

MORE PICS PLEASE!!!!

Hp425
 

>I acutally had 2 of the HP425's that came out of that boat before it >was rebuilt. It had red hull sides before the rebuild.


Interesting. You know Dan? I have a few pictures of before the boat was redone. Not much information on Meteors available. Guess not that many were built. I found the boat was also named Extracurricular II and Bandit in previous lives. I will stick with Triple Threat - it is embroidered into the seats and painted across the sides so the name works for me.

Anyone know the history of this boat or the Wellcraft/Scarab Meteor 5000's?

I will get some more pictures. I am planning on doing some cleaning and maintenance this weekend if I can remember.

I know Dan from Texoma. I had a dock condo across from this boat when it was on the lift.

Here are some more pictures- enjoy!

Hope to get out this weekend after I get some things fixed.

i know the history of that 50 real good i rerig that boat years ago for dan im happy that it looks that good good luck with it

stll have pics before and after of your 50 scarab

I have some pictures from before/after, but would be interested to see what you have. I wonder if they are the same ones? Also, if you know the history, I would like to make some notes on it for future reference.

Thanks!

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Wellcraft have always built Scarabs. Thats why there are no more Scarabs being built, Wellcraft stop making them. The Meteor was built by Wellcraft.

Rushjunky saw you at the Newburgh water front on Sat, that is one awesome boat you have. Good luck with her, I hope we catch up with one another some time.

JB

JB, sure, I will try to keep an eye out for you. Shortly before you took the pic at the marina, I had it up to about 75 at a bit over 5,000 RPM. While I was tied up, a big wake was have hit the boat because it snapped a bow line. Triple Threat is running good this year, and, so far, nothing big broke yet.

Boat looks great! You can get some of the history right from Wellcraft. I was able to find out which dealer ordered the boat and a complete list of all the options. Send them the hull number and I got the drive and engine serial numbers, colors and so forth. It was a good feeling to know that my boat is all stock with original power.