No Skaters at the top
11-09-2013, 02:30 PM
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11-09-2013, 04:51 PM
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If you look at the lap times the piston boats have been faster than the turbine boats so far in key west. I would say the racing would be closer than many think. The geico victory hull is based on a tencara hull. If I am not mistaken that is also what the mystic hull started as.
11-09-2013, 06:35 PM
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+1.... with the new power of the 1650's running against the turbines the playing field is alot closer to being even than factory tweeked 1350's running against 1075's
11-09-2013, 07:58 PM
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Don't know that much about it, but isn't the Victory and MTI both derivatives of Skater. If my memory is correct, Victory was originally built by Scism in UAE after they imported Skaters for the Victory team. Then, MTI was born here and if I remember right the word was the bottom was a lightly modified pop of a Skater. So, if I have everything right, Skater is whipping azz indirectly. No?
his boats were winning C1 races long before, don't think Skater had any real success competing at that level. so that would be a NO.
would be nice to see how the 52 MTI runs, but the shorter course in KW seems to be favoring the "faster setup" vs rough water most we're expecting
11-09-2013, 09:12 PM
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Jeff and Brad were building a big Skater to compete but then the accident happened. 
11-10-2013, 07:47 AM
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On a side thought, What is the timeframe on an order through to delivery for a Skater vs MTI these days???
11-10-2013, 07:48 AM
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[QUOTE=skaterdave;4024328]Michael Peters -http://www.mpyd.net/portfolio/portfolio.aspx
his boats were winning C1 races long before, don't think Skater had any real success competing at that level. so that would be a NO
Did a Mystic win? I recall that being a copy of a Tencara which was a Peters design.. Victory of the UAE for years raced Skaters with Randy Scism running the show. Don't know if the Victory boats of today are related to that effort in any way. MTI however is a derivative of Skater from what I remember.
his boats were winning C1 races long before, don't think Skater had any real success competing at that level. so that would be a NO
Did a Mystic win? I recall that being a copy of a Tencara which was a Peters design.. Victory of the UAE for years raced Skaters with Randy Scism running the show. Don't know if the Victory boats of today are related to that effort in any way. MTI however is a derivative of Skater from what I remember.
