Josh driving near the ramp




My truck pulling his boat...


Another shot of the boat....

 

that seems like it would be quite fun to have as a project. talk him into painting it silver to match your truck.

 

I dont pull it all the time. We alternate. It was my turn This weekend. He normally pulls it with his blue Chevy S10.

 

I thought everything was bigger in Texas????

 

Note if your only spending $1500. It runs and it looks decent for being from 1970.

 

Dude, you have got to get rid of that. I mean seriously, that's disgusting! Who the heck drinks Miller Lite anyways? Tell him to invest in something good, like Coors.

Nice boat too! Looks like a fun toy

 

At least miller is american owned. That was my friends. I was drinking Jim Beam and coke out of that black and white insulated cup.

 

It does look like fun and can't beat the price!

At least you have water there to put it in! Lake Hartwell (on GA/SC border, where we normally boat) is 13-14 feet down and Lake Lanier (GA) is down 16-17 feet. Doesn't make for a good boating season. We haven't been on the water once this year

 

well you got a hurricane coming so that may help.

 

If you are running the boat with the engine in the position like in the top pic, it's wrong. Considering the age of the engine, I highly doubt it has hydraulic trim. If you'll look on the back of the engine, when you take it off of the trailering bar, it sets against another bar. That bar has other holes it can go into for adjustment. You want the engine to tilt slightly up or almost the exact opposite of how it is in the pic. This will cause the prop to lift the bow, decrease wetted surface, reduce drag, and increase speed. If it has trim, it's still in the wrong position on that boat for any conditions. Just givin' ya some tips.

For a 1970's boat, that's a good looking hull design. It appears that it would have a dry ride in choppy water. From the pics it looks like the black strip on the deck is the only thing needing paint. About the only thing I would add is a large cleat in the middle of the front deck just behind the red/green light. Tie your rope to that and then around whatever side cleat otherwise you'll be chasing rope to tie up. I don't see any cleats on the back so I'd add some there too. Make sure to thru bolt them with an aluminum plate on the back side. The cleats also make a good place to tie off fenders. He'll need 6" fenders for that size boat.

Looks like a good excuse for a sun burn. Ya'll be safe and have a great time!

 

Yeah the motor does look slightly down. It doesnt have auto trim. Its easy to get down but putting it up is a pain in the ****! We are going to add cleat and re do that black stripe with some bed liner stuff. It does ride rather dry. Once it cools down we are going to redo the transom. It is OK for now but you can definetly tell it needs to be redone and winter sounds like a great time to do it.

 

Nice boat for the $$$!........

 

Trim is relative to speed. If one is traveling just fast enough to be up on plane and the motor is trimmed up too high, porposing will result. If towing a skiier, different trim levels result in different wake shapes. For a slalom skiier, a short wake is desired, so trim is up to reduce the amount of the hull that is in the water. A wakeboarder, just the opposite. With the trim all the way down, more of the hull will be displacing water, resulting in a taller, steeper wake for doing tricks.

 

ChumFX4, while that's good info, he doesn't have near enough HP for it to porpoise. The definition of boat porpoise is the hull falling off of plane at speed. Or on better words, the hull loses the wedge of water it rides on and over comes the wedge and falls back to the water. And then it starts all over again. His problem right now is the hull is plowing big time. He'll need to put the transom bar back at least three holes to get it right. He'll probably also gain 5-8 mph. I'm familiar with wakes as I was the driver for the woman's world record for slalom back in 1983. That record has been broken several times since but nobody realizes what the driver has to go thru to get a perfect run. Today you have GPS and cruise control but we didn't have that back then. The best you had was a wheel type speedometer, a foot throttle, and ESP. The boat was an early Century Coronado inboard with a Grey marine engine. Still, one of the best looking boats on the water. Here's a pic I found on line that looks just like it.
http://www.classicboating.com/sitebu..._2-430x192.jpg

But have you ever tried surfing the wake of a larger boat? If the Gulf was calm enough, we'd get the boards out when coming back into port and run our 35' Viking Convertible about 18 knots. You had non-stop 4' wake to surf home on. It would last for hours as we generally went out to the continental shelf better known around here as the rocks- 90 miles, 97 degrees out of Port A. So if you know somebody with a larger boat, bring the boards!

 

my jet ski used to purpoise bad unless i set the trim down low at high speed. But that was 130hp on a 400lbs boat. Next time we go out I'll make sure the engine is tilted up more.