fastoys

No comparison! #6 boat! no drive issues and big wheels!

PokerFace23

can anyone reply to a 42 poker run with merc 1075s with herring props... top speed and some ride conditions

UNSANE

Look a little closer. They had some big tabs back there and they are definitely down a bit. Drives looked a touch negative as well.

estarmer

They had tabs on the boat but they had electrical issues with the pumps. When ever Bobby would adjust the tabs the engines would cut power. So he set set it one last time and had to leave it for fear of loosing the engines. It was the mechanical gremlins refered to in the video. I think what TexomaPowerboater ment was he didn't have use of his tabs.

10x

You are correct. They had no use of their tabs, that's why the boat ran on its tail so much, but at the time they were looking for the top speed, and the water was'nt that rough, except for a wave or two.

UNSANE

Oh, I see. So Bob S. is even more of a badass then!!! I have to look at that vid at least once a day!

REDDEATH

The water that Apache is running is TYPICAL for an average NJ day.

PokerFace23

Yeah, NJ can get pretty nasty.. down in ocean city md it gets pretty rough as well its not common to see your props two feet above the water.. lol

REDDEATH

Everyones defination of ROUGH WATER is totally different.Untill you have experienced NJ water its hard to describe.Being able to run over 100 mph is nice to say but in the Atlantic off NJ in all reality 9 out of 10 days the water is just so ROUGH you cant go that fast

fountain 47 sc

I've never had my boat in the ocean, only on Lake Michigan but all my relatives who have boats are in NJ. There is no comparison. I think my boat would do fine but it only hits low 70's on GPS and has a lot higher freeboard than any of the other performance boats discussed.