Skate, I am realizing that a 28 is good for 2 light people! Me and my wide equal 300 pounds and the boat does great. I took it out with and additional 470pounds of FAT and the 28 handled like crap! I should remove the back seat!

Hey don't be diss'n fat when you are calling you wife "wide". Better correct your post before she finds out!

Yea they run great when light. Unfortunately I rarely get out without a bunch of guys or teenagers screaming in the back seat. I thought I would miss the top end capabilities of my 28 when I got the 308 but actually love the ride and handling especially when it gets rough.

It's all physics. Air intrapment hulls create just so much lift at a given speed. The more speed you have the more weight it will lift unfortunately the more weight you have the less lift it generate or somethinlike that. I like having plenty of fuel, my friends, kids, stereo, and ice chest and I'm not loosing wieght either so I'm usually toast on running mean and lean

Thanks "Skate" Today is my wife's birthday and WIDE did not go over well! Thanks for the "late" correction....

It's all in the balance boys!!!
My heavy weight runs great in the rough water! As a matter of fact sometimes I have to add ballast!!!!

I would agree that the Victory is faster in Xcat, but OTOH, Xcat has turned into flat water bay racing. I suspect the newer DW's would fair much better against the Victory's if they weren't always racing on glass.



Merc will have their new HP OB at the Miami show in a couple of months.

I suspect the new HP outboard will be a 400 verado, with a long shaft and club gear case for all the big Center Consoles out now.

I agree with you Jim, just a hopped-up Verado. Can't blame Mercury - they need to recoup the millions they spent developing those motors by selling a lot more than they already have! This "new" high hp outboard will most certainly not be anything of interest to us high performance cat guys. We'll be lucky if Mercury continues producing the XS for a few more years.

yep...probably so. we are just SOL unless all the CC guys decide to go to and OB cats and change the market demand LOL.

Or you guys switch over to the new G2 300R E-Tec motor with tons of torque and 315hp at the props?

[QUOTE=Omni Present;4220596]Or you guys switch over to the new G2 300R E

OH???? get me 350-400 then I'm def in!!!