The boards have sure been quiet lately - I figured guys would have been back on the water by now chasing some #s with the cool Spring air. I have three friends with outboard cats I will be involved with testing Dewalds on in the next month or so - Dan's 28DW/XSs, Pete's 30 Motion/XSs and Jay's Nordic 28/XSs. My other buddy Rob with the Skater 30/XSs is plenty happy just breaking 100 with a set of thru-hub 31 4 blades that run #s as if they were 32s. Steve seems just as happy with his quarter-canopied 28/XSs running low 100s with 4 people on board. I'm certain we will see a few 400R boats crack 130mph this year. The triple 400R DCB M29 already passed 130, hitting 131, but with needing triples to do it, I was not that impressed. I have all year to sit back without my rig, watching what everybody else sets as the bar for performance #s with 400R rigs.........

Has anyone tried this "Drive Sync" on an outboard application?


http://www.marinedesigncorp.com/driv...e-edition.html

I thought the 32A above was running in the 95-98 range with XS's is that incorrect? If so any idea why it's not running any better than 94 with the 400's or have they just not done any "setup" with it? Top end numbers definitely aren't everything but I would have thought it would be faster than that having gone from XS's to the 400's.

I ask because I still get the itch every once in awhile to look toward the 400's for my 32 but not if it wouldn't run faster than that, I figured I'd end up around the 110 range with them vs where I am with the trip X's.

It's not a 32A, It's a 32B. Like i said before," it still hasn't been dialed in, but currently running 94-95". I'm sure it has more.

I heard they got 110 out of Matt Rice's flat-deck 32B with 400Rs - and the boat weighed over 6,000#s fully rigged/no fuel!

Grant told me that boat would run 108 all day any day and 110mph was the number i heard also.
I will also say the boat had remote water pick ups installed on the motors as well.

Those were on the boat when it had triples, and were put to use with the 400's

I definitely wasn't trying to make a dig at the boat above, I can't wait to hear impressions of it on the water and what they think of it now vs when it had the XS's. I was just a little surprised that it hadn't run faster but with those numbers I'd guess they put the same props on it and the 400's seem to be very picky about props, the first DCB is a prime example of that. It's still fast we're just all a little crazy about numbers and potential.

that's a d@mn good number for an older 32 with 400's. much larger than our 30's and still solidly over 100mph is impressive to me. Of course the new 36 at 115...now that's the sh!t IMO in a twin 400R outboard cats to date!!!

Matt just reported in SOTW that the 368 did 119 with 34" merc CNC props.