30' Sutphen Ocean Pacer
 

How much does it weigh?... twin 420 TRS

This flyer says less than 6000,,, is that true?

Re: 30' Sutphen Ocean Pacer
 

At that net weight, even if it's a sbc/Alpha boat, the hull would weigh less than 3000lbs. I thought the 26' hull weighed that much, you'll have to weigh yours and let us know.

Re: 30' Sutphen Ocean Pacer
 

I plan on it this summer... Currently she is at Central Power & Rigging at LOTO... getting a few Trick Marine Parts installed..

Two shameless plugs... :drink:

Re: 30' Sutphen Ocean Pacer
 

Nice boat!

Re: 30' Sutphen Ocean Pacer
 

Wow,,, figure another 800 pounds of fuel .....200 pounds of boating crap... Thats 6800 pounds.. my trailer is probaly 1700 or so... Rougly 8500 pounds for the whole package... :rolleyes:

Hey Sutphen30...
How are those super whippled engines coming along? :drink:

Re: 30' Sutphen Ocean Pacer
 

Hey Bill, My motor is back together.Test run in a couple of weeks. Rings,bearings,oil pump,roller lifters,cam,timing chain,push rods,roller rockers,rocker studs, etc,etc,etc.Using cam we talked about during Christmas.Ernie and I are getting ready.

Anyone ever weigh one these to find the weight? The boat in the add looks like a single? might explain the 5800lbs weight.

yes it's true why?? not a single

Just that seems light for a twin 420 trs 30Ft.

not light just built well that's why they are all still around gosh I think the first 30' race boat is still around and that was built in 1977
what other builder can say that!!

Inferno

Sutphen
 

Exactly!! INFERNO ,Now in Ohio on Lake Erie!!

Had a 1980 w/BBC power x 2 and weighed in @ 6100 light on fuel. Had a lot of plywood in the bottom and sides and a lot of glass in the laminate schedule. Also have a 33 84 w balsa core weighs in at 6700 w/2 BBC's. Great boats for the rough!

motors have run flawlessly for 8 yrs and 3 oil changes.next up is afr 315 heads.unless I sell it.107mph so far,a little scarey come back down from 100 to 92 mph.

That must be quite a hand full at 107

I didn't realize your duramax could tow the boat that fast! If you had a triple axel trailer it would slow down much more in control!

ha ha nice again

not bad,I got there quick,stayed for a second or 2 then came back down.thats when the fun started.

you maybe be on to something.should have sprung for the other axle.

always liked this pic,just raw hp.

http://i58.tinypic.com/4rucjt.jpg

that is just nice to see

It probably started to walk big time on you.
With the big B&G engines GA ran 92. After 88 mph it flattened out and rode like it was on rail.

Sutphens are a handful to drive. Once u get the nak it's a piece of cake.

tsunami in tomorrow ist time this year plymouth harbor we are gonna use the ballast tank for the first time we will see what kind of numbers we get . some swells out there we will see .we got that nice run coming in to bug light .

tsunami ist time in was tonight went to tko s met walt he is bringing up his 30 in a couple of weeks . we got boarded by coast guard on the dock at the resturant, no problems the boat ran top speed for the day 94 at 5000 it was windy but a great day for that boat. ran from scituate back to ply at 75 80 in about 20 minutes . very happy .with that 34

how would you know what speed your running when your looking at the birds.new race team, bird watching racing.:evilb:

your right i do bird whatch. but getting back to the 94 mph we did it without using the ballast tank. so when we were at the bar talking to walt .he said he knows a guy with a 30 used bags of cement in the front maybe we will try that to get triple digets .

so your putting stronger engines in.:party-smiley-004:and like you or you coping me(I've been doing it longer) I run no ballast at all.5 blades take care of everything.

725 s that we put in are the only engines we have ever ran the boat with . second season . tell hank we said hi.

funny he said tear you up about being the bird man.:whistle:

i know im a f d up driver beleave me. i think ill have hank drive and dan on throttles and ill just bird whtch from the nav seat. when im telling them where to go its just to chase a flock of birds. c you out there.

Missed you by 1 day. Went to TKOs for lunch on 7/6. Walt wasn't there - and neither were the Coast Gaurd.

that sucks we do not run into many of us out in that area. next time we out there all the time.

A guy asks how much the 30' weighs and from there it somehow got to running 107. Even in your wildest/craziest dreams that boat has never seen 100+. Come on man. I'll have whatever he's drinking.

There is ocean pacers running north of 100.

WHERE are they?

There' one in IL with 510 BBC's pushing 625HP each (if I remember correctly) with Kaama's, owner claims triple digits and with that package it should be pretty close to it. I wanted to buy it but couldn't make the $$ work at the time.

P5 and not P5x 5 blades, correct?

the tsunami raced with 570 s know it has new 725 s it had 30 s now has 32 s its just a mid 90 s boat it still has the older drives it raced with. so last season we ran it and had drive troubles half the time when we tried the higher speeds. so we run this season 5000 and we have still never even opened the thing up.. next season maybe new drives right know boat runs awesome with no sweat.

What gear ratio are the drives?

1.50 its not just that its old prop shafts lost a new prop so we replaced both and then we blew a gear in one drive . we were getting nickle and dimed all the time. so we have run 6 or 7 times now just 5000 no more than 95 ever and we will have a great summer and make it to fall river .