Best rough water boat ever built?????
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What the wet lbs. of a trip 47 Apache. I Know A older 50 Nortech is 20-21k depending on fuel and I could run 85+ mph in any normal water under 10 feet with a 98-100 top end in some nice 3 foot chop.
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Where is Sydwayz???
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BillR
'00 Scarab Sport 302 CC
'02 Cigarette Top Gun TS
'02 PQ 340
'00 PQ 280
'98 Scarab 22
'97 Baja Outlaw 20
'72 Checkmate
'65 Glastron
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Parnell has kept putting in glass to reinforce his Saber 41 (essentially the same as an Apache) in order for it to withstand the pounding he dishes out to it in Lake Michigan and Florida.
I have seen him jump (we were running along in our Tiger) in Florida off of South Beach the wave of a 70' Sport fisherman, he was without a doubt at least 20' feet in the air running about 75 mph. I would not of tried that with anything built lightweight for speed on 2" chop these days, my guess is a lot of them would of folded in half.
Just my humble opinion.