Start to Finish: Building Our 50' Skater
04-11-2016, 01:21 PM
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On the new boat we will use normal size props. We will start out with mercury and hering props that we already have and when we figure out what pitch works good then we will machine some out of billet 4340 steel and have them coated to not corrode.
These are the ones on the v-bottom.
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These are the ones on the v-bottom.
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04-11-2016, 04:49 PM
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On the new boat we will use normal size props. We will start out with mercury and hering props that we already have and when we figure out what pitch works good then we will machine some out of billet 4340 steel and have them coated to not corrode.
These are the ones on the v-bottom.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]553935[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]553936[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]553937[/ATTACH]
These are the ones on the v-bottom.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]553935[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]553936[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]553937[/ATTACH]
04-11-2016, 05:15 PM
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On the new boat we will use normal size props. We will start out with mercury and hering props that we already have and when we figure out what pitch works good then we will machine some out of billet 4340 steel and have them coated to not corrode.
These are the ones on the v-bottom.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]553935[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]553936[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]553937[/ATTACH]
These are the ones on the v-bottom.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]553935[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]553936[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]553937[/ATTACH]
04-11-2016, 05:36 PM
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04-11-2016, 06:02 PM
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Yes, and she has hauled boats with it herself. Can you imagine the look on people's faces when she pulls into a truck stop and jumps out and starts putting fuel in it?
I was working out of town and I was supposed to have the silver skater 42 v-bottom on display at a boat show for Simrad. So I told Tristan to go get it out of the storage building and haul it down there. Where she had to go was down a curvy two lane road by a lake and then through some parking lots that were full of cars/people. So a few hours later I get a call from a guy that was there and he says he was directing people where to park and he see's my truck come into the parking lot going around medians and parked cars and pulls up to him the window rolls down and it's Tristan in there by herself and she says where do you want me to back this into. Then she goes and parks the truck and boat and jumps out of the truck in a pink shirt. The guy that called me said seeing her haul that thing around and jump out of the truck was probably the sexiest thing he has ever seen.
Here is a pic of her running the boat in the shootout by herself. Keep in mind that means working her way through the crowd, getting by the start boat calling them on the radio to get in the que to run. Then milling around with the other boats, getting her pink helmet and pink lifeline on, pulling up to the start boat, floor it getting on plane, trimming It up, shifting into second gear, keeping it as straight down the course as possible to not scrub speed and go between finish bouys. Then weave back through thousands of weekend warriors to come pick me up. All with the stress of trying to win (the fastest woman at that time to ever run the shootout ran 79 mph and we knew our boat would only run 81 mph max. Tristan ran 80 mph and was fastest girl to ever do it, for about ten minuites then Summer ran like 142 mph.).
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I was working out of town and I was supposed to have the silver skater 42 v-bottom on display at a boat show for Simrad. So I told Tristan to go get it out of the storage building and haul it down there. Where she had to go was down a curvy two lane road by a lake and then through some parking lots that were full of cars/people. So a few hours later I get a call from a guy that was there and he says he was directing people where to park and he see's my truck come into the parking lot going around medians and parked cars and pulls up to him the window rolls down and it's Tristan in there by herself and she says where do you want me to back this into. Then she goes and parks the truck and boat and jumps out of the truck in a pink shirt. The guy that called me said seeing her haul that thing around and jump out of the truck was probably the sexiest thing he has ever seen.
Here is a pic of her running the boat in the shootout by herself. Keep in mind that means working her way through the crowd, getting by the start boat calling them on the radio to get in the que to run. Then milling around with the other boats, getting her pink helmet and pink lifeline on, pulling up to the start boat, floor it getting on plane, trimming It up, shifting into second gear, keeping it as straight down the course as possible to not scrub speed and go between finish bouys. Then weave back through thousands of weekend warriors to come pick me up. All with the stress of trying to win (the fastest woman at that time to ever run the shootout ran 79 mph and we knew our boat would only run 81 mph max. Tristan ran 80 mph and was fastest girl to ever do it, for about ten minuites then Summer ran like 142 mph.).
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04-11-2016, 06:05 PM
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