the warranty issue discussed in other threads was that the owner/Grant's had Wilson Blueprint the gearcases.....

I heard there may be issues with the bottom???

Rumor or real?

The cases are out of the water, so how does blueprinting help? But they do look great!

Have not heard any issues with the bottom. The skeg of the outboard is where the blueprinting was done. Was told it runs great!!

I just stated wilson blue printing the cases as a general reference to the work that was performed. The skegs were profiled and I would assume if there was room to improve the profile of the bullet down into the skeg it would have been dones as well (in keeing with the i/o gearcase work they do). If the work was limited tot he skeg - my applogies for the miss comm.

that's a large boat to run those speeds with 400r's. they did go from trip 300x and if I remember about the same performance???..not sure what orthobam's cruise and top end # requirements are but that's not too shabby a platform.

If I recall there was a lot of discussion about it supposedly running the same speed with trip X's as it did with the 400's and I believe it was Joe from DBR that cleared the air and said it ran significantly fast with the trip X's but wasn't as user friendly. I know I've seen 115 on my trip X 32A and it was still pulling pretty hard but I had to back down due to running out of room so they will definitely do better with trips, like anyone would reasonably think otherwise... I know that's a B hull that was widened etc but still, if speed is important trip X probably can't be beat but if easy running and maintenance is the priority the twin 400's would be hard to beat, I've got to admit I've considered it myself.

What I find interesting on that boat is the fact they aren't using external hydraulic steering, they have a tie bar but are using the factory steering. I'm curious how that will work out.

Just as 300x motors are the hot ticket if you want to go fast, or XS's if you want to go slower but save fuel and have a warranty.

The boat runs 105mph now

What do you think it would run with the 300xs?

95?

90?