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A friend at the cottage has a 31' Fountain with twin 502s in it. He took me and my son for a ride into rosedale for ice cream.

Took us about three minutes to get there from Driftwood Village which is a pretty long run.

Top speed was 92 mph and he said "the hull is dirty" haha.

I had a big smile on my face all the way!

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Top speed was 92 mph and he said "the hull is dirty" haha.

 

That's crazy fast on the water, it must be downright scary with a clean hull :lol:

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The boat in my ciggy runs low 90's propped to fish and never propped it for topend running but would run high nineties light propped for topend.Ton's of fun :)

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That's crazy fast on the water, it must be downright scary with a clean hull :lol:

 

Yeah Lew, when I was growing up I used to slalom ski behind a Humber Jewel that was way overpowered and I think

it's top speed was about 45.

That was realllllll fast in the day.

Today's boats are just crazy fast!

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it's top speed was about 45.

That was realllllll fast in the day.

 

Funny you say that cause when I was a kid growing up in the 50's my dad had a 15' cedarstrip with a 25 HP Johnson Seahorse and that boat could wup anyone on the lake :lol:

 

Hard to believe what we called BIG motors back then :lol:

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Funny you say that cause when I was a kid growing up in the 50's my dad had a 15' cedarstrip with a 25 HP Johnson Seahorse and that boat could wup anyone on the lake :lol:

 

Hard to believe what we called BIG motors back then :lol:

 

When the parents and my Aunt & Uncle owned the Land O Lakes Lodge way back when I was a Wee Sprog, we rented out cedar strips to our customers and I don't recall them being fast, probably because they only had small motors on them.

I do know that they were pretty heavy because every so often we had to sink them with markers in front of the docks and leave them to soak up the water and tighten the boards.

There was a beautiful Cedar Strip runabout on the lake last year that had been restored and it looked brand new.

A really nice boat.

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High 120's low 130's.25ft talon with twin rude v8's.Punch to 410hp at prop.

35ft fever,twin 1200hp teague's supercharged.

My boats.19ft v-king with merc 2.5 275hp. 113mph.

21ft challenger 2.4 merc 325hp 87mph through 4ft rollers.

23ft master-craft, 454 merc 425hp 92mph.

14ft voodoo 90hp stinger.ruff guess 70mph.

19 pro v fully loaded average 50mph.

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High 120's low 130's.25ft talon with twin rude v8's.Punch to 410hp at prop.

35ft fever,twin 1200hp teague's supercharged.

My boats.19ft v-king with merc 2.5 275hp. 113mph.

21ft challenger 2.4 merc 325hp 87mph through 4ft rollers.

23ft master-craft, 454 merc 425hp 92mph.

14ft voodoo 90hp stinger.ruff guess 70mph.

19 pro v fully loaded average 50mph.

 

You're slowing down in your old age Paul. w00t.gif

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High 120's low 130's.25ft talon with twin rude v8's.Punch to 410hp at prop.

35ft fever,twin 1200hp teague's supercharged.

My boats.19ft v-king with merc 2.5 275hp. 113mph.

21ft challenger 2.4 merc 325hp 87mph through 4ft rollers.

23ft master-craft, 454 merc 425hp 92mph.

14ft voodoo 90hp stinger.ruff guess 70mph.

19 pro v fully loaded average 50mph.

 

seems as you are getting older your boats get slower and for the most part smaller

 

is this a problem with everything or just boats......LOL

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Probably a good thing Terry... I'd hate to see the marks his previous boats could leave in a dock.. Reverse Paul.. reverse...

 

That why docks are anchored to the ground.

 

I was entering a slip in Orillia with my first Challenger.Glide into the slip,Throw it in reverse and pound the throttle to

stop the boat.Boat lurches forward so hard that when I hit the dock the hole boat comes out of the water.I rip out the

tether,To late the boat is now sitting on the dock completely out of the water.

 

There's a two guy's sitting in a boat a couple of slips up laugh.They come over to help push the boat back into the water.

One guy asks what happened,I say,Don't know??.Pop the cowl off and the shift cable is just hanging there.

The boat was still in forward.

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