buck35

Okay, so you had an exciting week in Havasu, but..... updates! You've hooked us , we're dying here, lol!

mac90sup

Seconded��

Cash Bar

He is probably sleeping after heading straight to Skater from Havasu.

BigSilverCat

Ok, I'm back in Michigan to get some Monicas cookies so I guess I should start working on the boat again. I stopped by the store to get the cookies and there was a sign on the jar that says $1.95 each...... Seems awful cheep.... $1.95 for each jar full of cookies....I wish they would have had more then one jar of them.... needless to say the check out girl did not think that was as funny as I did.

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BigSilverCat

I stopped by my place on the way to Havasu and made some prop shaft covers for the 3312 I was hauling to desert storm and for my boat.

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BigSilverCat

I have not been on here for a couple weeks because we had a vacation... You know, a vacation.... work on a boat all night to get it ready, spend a day loading all the skater clothing and displays, drive 3 days to show, spend all day cleaning boat for Skater party at West coast drives, spend all day the next day cleaning and displaying boat and Skater clothing line ( http://skater-apparel.com/ ) at Desert storm street party, Fill boat up with gas and spend all morning cleaning boat to take Pete out in it and to show it to a couple potential customers, next day repeat that, then tighten everything since its a new boat and get it ready to run shootout, tried wrong props then try to change them before shootout is over and truck spins tires for an hour trying to get up ramp, drive to another ramp to pull it out, out of time to make another pass, clean boat up and pack everything, then drive 3 days back to skater, spend a day cleaning the boat and truck again.... you know a vacation...

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AZMIDLYF

Saw a lot of pics of this boat on various sites and thought it had great lines! What is the actual length of hull, not including bustle?

I don't mind tax write off vacations.

Cash Bar

Should have pushed that D button until it said 6-1.


LMAO

BigSilverCat

Installing the front lifting eyes. We laid up several layers of Kevlar to spread the load out more from the lifting eye, made custom brackets that hold the lifting eye to the bulkhead and deck so that the sideways or forward and back pulling from the straps do not try to pull on the deck, and ran a bracket down to the bottom to spread the load out more across the bulkhead.

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BigSilverCat

Thanks for your help, we put the biggest props we had for the speed run on sunday and they were too big. it did not accelerate as hard, the gps showed 159 and was climbing fast when we crossed the finish line at only 5400 rpm. With the smaller props it still ran 160 but would have done it in a half mile and literally lays you back in the seat all the way to the rev limiter at 160 mph. We are going to get a prop somewhere in between them and it should run in the upper 170's and still get there quick.