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Offline demian5

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Ready for Sea Trials
« on: October 25, 2019, 01:35:41 PM »
Got it all back together and ready to splash. Should be fun to take out in a couple weeks if weather here in So Cal hold up.
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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2019, 05:03:12 PM »
Looks great !
Hope your new prop works ..
"Couple of weeks"  …   We'll have snow by then !

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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2019, 06:04:53 PM »
Love it!
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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2019, 06:33:13 PM »
Interior sure looks sharp. Nicely done.
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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2019, 01:58:04 PM »
Looks great! Love the truck. Beauty looking set you have there.
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Offline demian5

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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2019, 02:30:15 PM »
Looks great !
Hope your new prop works ..
"Couple of weeks"  …   We'll have snow by then !

 :-[ :o :(

just got my castle washer from Amazon today. I can at least bolt on the prop before I get the new extended trim tab.
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Offline Hyperacme

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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2019, 02:34:45 PM »
You can run it without the tab, just lots of torque steer.
Some props have more torque steer then others.

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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2019, 12:13:34 PM »
Beautiful!!! I was thinking about looking for an older truck to tow my CVX 18. You really have an amazing setup.
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Offline demian5

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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2019, 02:43:40 PM »
Taking it to Puddingstone Reservoir in San Dimas, CA Saturday to try it out. Should be a very nice day!
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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2019, 04:04:16 PM »
Be on the lookout for Bill and Ted!  Good luck in your sea trials, be sure to carry hand tools to adjust the trim tab, and for unforseen new boat issues.
Michael
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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2019, 01:15:30 AM »
It went amazing. With the original big prop (not the 23P) I was up to 35 MPH on the speedo at about 3200 RPM. I didn't pin the throttle, figured Id just do a few jaunts here and there to work the engine. It got to almost 160 on the gauge. Oil pressure never dropped below 35. It was a success (I don't really trust any of the gauges though... anyone agree?).
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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2019, 05:47:28 AM »
It’s great to hear the outing was a success, as all of our water up here turned hard last week it’s encouraging to hear. As far as the gauges go i used to always miss trust electrical gauges, I always used mechanical stuff in my automotive projects that’s just not practical in a boat. I’ve had a mishmash of original and old-school gauges in all of our boats, and have never really given me any trouble, but as always “trust but verify “


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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2019, 09:11:15 AM »
Modern gauges and sensors have come a long way.   I tend to believe those, but you could always verify oil pressure with a tee and a mechanical gauge.  Good to hear your trials went well, 35 mph at 3200 RPM is doing well, I would guess higher rpms if towing skiers was your thing.  No more boating this season for us, was 7 degrees this morning. 
Michael
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1985 Intimidator project
1989 Lowe 200 Redneck fishin Toon
2001 Godfrey Sweetwater pontoon 115 Rude

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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2019, 04:24:41 PM »
This is such a sick setup 8), so love the whole package. Good luck with the launch
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Re: Ready for Sea Trials
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2019, 11:22:26 AM »
It was a beautiful day and only as couple other boats out. Only bummer was you couldn't walk the boat up to the trailer, you had to drive it over and throw a line to someone standing on the tounge to get it on the trailer.
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