NASCAT

Has it ever seen water? Last I somone was sending it to Teague in CA to have the rigging completed.

Anxious to see this new Pleasure model, the DW's have sweet lines!

cowisl

Saw it beached on the sandbar in Haulover last year. Neat looking boat

Boatlesss

nice project anxious to see the boat from a different perspective. outboards are a great package and should be bullet proof. i don’t understand the special part as if i am reading this correctly, the thing makes yours the truly first pleasure boat in your eyes is that you have a different windshield than the other? i would hope there is more to it than this. congratulations

Bullhead

Congratulations Kap......I was wondering when your project was going to start to get some airtime...if your speed #'s vs fuel consumption #'s we discussed come to fruition you have a real winner on your hands

kap328

Hey Marc:

We still love your beautiful boat it's just the fuel bill we could do without...laughing!

Well at 130 gallons we should have between 286 to 325 miles of cruising range. The price of gas is always a factor when you boat over 100+ hours a year.

It is almost ready for water waiting on a just few things to then go out and water test.

We definitely need to catch up in 2012!

KAP

Double Rigged

You will see some big hp coming from the 300xs block in the not to distant future. Just not from mercury. Should be awesome.

Skater30

Kap, I'm really not sure why you are touting your setup as the "future" of performance boating for midsize cats under 32'. These setups have been around since the late '80s. And as far as the Optimax motors, Rick Bowling had a set on his 28 Skater way back in 2003 when they came out (I bought his 300PMs and put them on my 28). I think you're new boat is going to be a great rig for what you want it for, but it's definitely not revolutionary by any means. The Loan Shark 32 DW already exists, so it's not like nobody has seen a pleasure cockpit DW before. Please explain to me/us what is so revolutionary about your new setup and what makes it the "future" of performance boating. And if you think it's the reliability/fuel mileage equation, guess again! I've owned two 28s with outboards and my 30 with inboards, and I can tell you right now for certain that my inboard 30 is more reliable than either of my outboard 28s were (and I've owned 2.5s, 3.0s and 3.2s). As for fuel economy, cruising at the same speed (100mph) my inboard will not burn any more fuel than your outboard will, because you will be WOT burning 27 gph per motor, and I will be at 1/3 throttle burning the same gph. I think outboard powered boats are great (you know I own three of them), but on the size boat you are putting them on, they lose their advantages over the inboard packages. Again, don't take this the wrong way Kap, I think you are building a really nice piece, I just don't understand your posts about how it is going to revolutionize performance boating.

kap328

Comment:

I believe your correct.

CJ Hoffman will be attempting the Kilo Run at the Salton Sea with some monster outboard power. Allegedly, putting out 390HP, at least this is what I was told...he has a twin set on his Mach 22 running north of 130 MPH.

That is hauling the mail in such a low freeboard boat.

KAP

P.S. Skater30 you just need to be a little patient trust me you will not be disappointed.

sbark1

I wondered about alot of the same things....????

4mulafastech

Here is a Talon 22 pleasure I owned from 1993-2000. Yep, twin outboard tunnels sure are fun!