View Poll Results: Would you buy an "Old School Carbon" boat?
I would buy a carbon lightweight Old School boat
40
61.54%
Nope..Glass and steps for me
5
7.69%
Nope...Carbon and steps for me
10
15.38%
Nope...Glass and Old School for me
10
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Would you buy an "Old School" carbon boat?
06-30-2005 | 04:31 PM
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Would you buy an "Old School" carbon boat?
I just had to ask.. 
..I would if I could...but I want it new.
Like a 39 TG in Carbon...or for that matter a Fountain or OL....Old School
No steps...no pad..no bull...24 degree deadrise..
Without steps you may loose 10 mph but...for example.. the OL 39' GTX does 110 mph with T-Illmors (has a nice seating cabin too)....so what if it "only" went 100 mph and didn't have steps....is loosing a little speed a good thing in order to gain more control in turns expecially?
I am begining to think that with the technology we have today and the ability to build a very lightweight boat that could not have been built 10 years ago and the amount of stock power that is available as well...that steps are not needed anymore.
So I am asking...what do you think you would want your next boat to be designed and constructed of? Is it time to wave goodbye to steps...yet??
Pretty soon I am thinking only the first 2-3' of the boat will have a V-Configuration...and the back 37' will be flat.
..I would if I could...but I want it new.
Like a 39 TG in Carbon...or for that matter a Fountain or OL....Old School
No steps...no pad..no bull...24 degree deadrise..
Without steps you may loose 10 mph but...for example.. the OL 39' GTX does 110 mph with T-Illmors (has a nice seating cabin too)....so what if it "only" went 100 mph and didn't have steps....is loosing a little speed a good thing in order to gain more control in turns expecially?
I am begining to think that with the technology we have today and the ability to build a very lightweight boat that could not have been built 10 years ago and the amount of stock power that is available as well...that steps are not needed anymore.
So I am asking...what do you think you would want your next boat to be designed and constructed of? Is it time to wave goodbye to steps...yet??
Pretty soon I am thinking only the first 2-3' of the boat will have a V-Configuration...and the back 37' will be flat.
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06-30-2005 | 05:08 PM
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Re: Would you buy an "Old School" carbon boat?
Originally Posted by Hydrocruiser
No steps...no pad..no bull...24 degree deadrise..
So I am asking...what do you think you would want your next boat to be designed and constructed of? Is it time to wave goodbye to steps...yet??
So I am asking...what do you think you would want your next boat to be designed and constructed of? Is it time to wave goodbye to steps...yet??
Oh wait and Pantera.Must be a market because they aer both still in business.
06-30-2005 | 06:14 PM
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Re: Would you buy an "Old School" carbon boat?
Originally Posted by Hydrocruiser
I am begining to think that with the technology we have today and the ability to build a very lightweight boat that could not have been built 10 years ago and the amount of stock power that is available as well...that steps are not needed anymore.
Just buy a phucking boat, would ya!!
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06-30-2005 | 06:41 PM
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Re: Would you buy an "Old School" carbon boat?
Originally Posted by Von Bongo
I think they are called Baja's Oh wait and Pantera.
Must be a market because they aer both still in business.
Oh wait and Pantera.Must be a market because they aer both still in business.
I am talking a high tech spaceage composite constructed hull...that's looks liike Aronow made it..
But you are right..the Pantera is one of the few left..and Jo is busy too!
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06-30-2005 | 06:43 PM
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Re: Would you buy an "Old School" carbon boat?
Originally Posted by OldSchool
In my opinion, you (once again) are thinking too much!!
Just buy a phucking boat, would ya!!
Just buy a phucking boat, would ya!!
...you know we are both old schoolers....
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06-30-2005 | 06:52 PM
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Re: Would you buy an "Old School" carbon boat?
I'll tell ya what...everybody likes speed but only second to speed we like Old School....If Don were here I would have the ally I need to push this demand into the showroom.
A solid 38'er ....24 degree deadrise....you know the look...you know the style....8,000 lbs...T-600 Hp engines...
97 MPH....nice seating in the cabin....Do it with light weight composites not steps is all...make it solid as a brick chithouse...
...it WILL sell!!
That's where the R & D bucks need to be spent... on new hull materials...
A solid 38'er ....24 degree deadrise....you know the look...you know the style....8,000 lbs...T-600 Hp engines...
97 MPH....nice seating in the cabin....Do it with light weight composites not steps is all...make it solid as a brick chithouse...
...it WILL sell!!
That's where the R & D bucks need to be spent... on new hull materials...
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06-30-2005 | 07:36 PM
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Re: Would you buy an "Old School" carbon boat?
Originally Posted by Sean H
give me technology in materials and hull design... and give me a tunnel too..
If I didn't see it with my own eyes I would not have believed that a 50' Cougar Cat made from high tech carbon materials could do 160 mph with a total of 2100 HP.
Why have a heavy boat and make the engines sweat and the drives break?
..steps are a poor man's invention to get a measley 10 mph more...
...WEIGHT reduction is where it's at in the future..
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