I built some carts that support the boat under the strike just as the trailer does. I was going to put these under the boat to get it as low as possible to the ground to be able to rig the motors inside the 14’ tall ceiling barn.


I built them to fit any cat. The uprights can be slid in and out To achieve the perfect tunnel width. After building them I was messing around before paint and figured shoot they would work for a V bottom boat as well if the uprights were put on oppsing sides and the 4X4 placed on the inside of the angle iron. I have yet to test them yet. Only thing I wish I would have done is put bigger casters on them. They are 3” and rated to 1000lbs - bigger casters never hurt


Living in Michigan I didn’t want to store the trailer outside for the winter as I have work to do on it yet and didn’t want to accumulate too much surface rust. To be able to put the motors in I took the axles out from under neath the trailer

Notice how close the top of the I-Beam attachment is to the garage door frame


Aluminum stringer brackets from skater along with the motor mounts

There was a compound angle on the driveshaft. From the trasom assembly heading towards the flywheel the driveshaft has an UPWARDS angle and an OUTWARDS angle. I did not want to go through U-Joints every other ride and have vibrations throughout so I took the motor mounts to the shop and started hacking away. Dad came over and lended a huge hand in thinkin how to move the motors around to not only get better driveshaft angles but also lower the COG.

The guy who got my into boating, snowmobiling, dirtbiking, and wrenching! Dads got the 40 that I’d like have a few MPH on


Some friends came over to check the progress out and lend a hand- Thanks Mike, Logan, Nate, John, and Joe


I’ll just leave this here for a bit. More pics to come of the inside

Sydwayz
everything you said is spot on. I would like the think I’m not too long yet where I need to add the triangle. All the places I went with my old 32’ Velocity I will hit up with the skate. If the trailer does fall off the back side of the ramp I’ll send a buddy down with some ratchet straps and use the buoyancy of the boat to lift it back up

I've also heard it’s great for the launch if you just start the boat and put the sticks to the dash. Should help get some momentum going LOl!

I made some phone calls today to Dave @ Custom Touch Graphics and to Leon @ Derebery Proformance.
both were very helpful and great to talk to!

The cool stuff I learned today:
Junkman was originally a 525SC - bravo boat and then Henry (unknown last name) bought it and brought it to Derebery performance where it got 572 CI and 1471 BDS blowers making 1250HP. Dave from Custom Touch Graphics did the paint on the boat he said if he could remember correctly that was around 2000-2001. The goal was to hold the record for fastest bravo boat at LOTO. It didn't even make it half the run before a bravo blew. It then got the merc No.6 drives and was a poker / pleasure run boat that mostly ran in Desert Storm, LOTO, and many other poker runs. I was told the boat ran 165MPH with the No. 6's.
-1.24 Drive ratio
-34 pitch 15 3/4 diameter props
-Spinning in

Said the boat handles like **** and porpoises with the props spinning out

The not so cool stuff I learned today:
The boat was sitting in the bottom of the lake tied up to a dock with the front of the sponsons still above water

Im not sure if either Dave or Leon are on OSO, but if you ever read this I appreciate all of your time and information!