ReallyGottaSki

@MDB1056 I'll consider that after Saturday, I hope to demonstrate shareable success regarding wet foam because it appears so many of these fine boats are riding heavy but decades of life left in their bones @Ronny61 magnificent work! Yes, this platform needs love as well and may not be satisfactory even with repair. I wish I could act on your platform immediately but I have a few unknowns to sort out first. thank you for the headsup I will consider as we go! To sort of wrap my interjection and tangents back into our OP observation, in this particular perhaps unique case due to what it was asthetically, this operating boat I monitored on CL from mid July till began moving on it in mid October, he had many tire kickers that restated the obvious but I believe for perhaps 500 more one could have driven home with it in mid August

@MDB1056 this is a '99, and i'm a bit embarrassed to say so, but i don't know the engine hours! but i did take it for a proper test ride and a ski behind it. it ran real smooth and so i was shocked to find the bent strut later on. my phone app said 49mph. later found it had the 12.65p acme on it, and the 12p prop was new in the box. Just rewired and powered up the pp last night, half expecting to see an hour meter in the menu, but alas. Perhaps the ecm has accumulated hours but i havn't investigated how to retrieve yet. I see no hr gauge on the multi nor the dash anywhere. im perplexed! @Kevin89MC thanks yes, you see its potential as well!, lets bat those ideas on the fbm

Thanks men! yes @Wish , you are spot on, my math says I'm looking at like 6 and change to get it all fresh. Hopefully i wont have to flip it but the option is there just as you said. So far its gotten a quality trailer jack, brakes, actuator, all fuel, water, exhaust and heater hoses; heater blower and core, tilt helm all three cables and pivots, new strut, shaft straightened, filters, adding a water separator, fuel sender, and Gabe is making skins for it as we speak. Have secured new brackets and gas struts, blower, shower parts. Buffed out and windshield frames getting painted. the speaker holes up front will become defroster vents for morning rips. the hull is remarkably blemish free, quite a paradox considering the condition of the rest the soft parts. the rug actually power washed up nice, but will get new rug as we pulled it up this week to address the wet foam this Saturday

I got this pound rescue in late October for 7. Monsoon,wedge,pylon,boom,pp, and two acmes. good bones. restoration in progress

If you do heads, do a thoughtfully chosen cam as well you wont regret

Prop is going to need its own theft insurance policy

@Jmoski , my observations are the tail rides higher foil or no foil The ski surface is another foil but 1000X more area. The medium changed for both surfaces. little wing can't overcome to make the big surface run deeper, though its trying harder, but so isnt the opposing surface, but with more area. the ski wins. More downforce , i concur. but the ski also has multiples more upforce than the wing when the medium becomes more dynamically viscous for both I suspect people reduce wing angle when cold to compensate for both increased viscous drag , compounded by the wing's higher aoa from the ski riding more more level, I was astounded, pictures from cold water ski events this time of year, skis are visibly riding higher and flat

Indeed @Jmoski ! Density just has better memes

Just bought a 99 RCB project boat for 7, monsoon, dual axle trailer. Dull, looks like a fisher cat had it's way with the interior, but it floats and runs smooth. Looks like I'm going to learn to sew.

That copy thing between them goes way back.... 1960 Ferrari 250LM. ;)

Yep

Yes i think it always was an issue of some degree at events The site hosted some eastern regionals, then some class C , Novice tournaments and charity ski shows into the mid eighties, I learned that after the national events, the town offered the site to the club, but with forward thinking, they did not want to become boxed into the cove. The formerly grassy spectator mound/island was maintained by the town for a good while but last few decades has been left overgrown, now hosts small trees and scrub, the boat ramp and tall pines remain, and the town beach just got a playground and pavilion facelift. A 1 to 7 litre and blown alcohol hydro race was hosted at the site maybe 6 years ago, with good success. the ski cove was tending to retrieving the prior heat, and warming up the next heat, while the main lake did the racing in front of the beach for good spectating. the lake host great freeskiing with mile-long runs one can get 30+ cuts before turnarounds. the slalom course is in front of many walled frontage, so is only good for a pass or two.

@swbca , thats my playground. I was minus 3 then, but the organizers and local participants of that endeavor were my ski mentors since, some have passed but many are still driving , skiing even barefooting. Still a ski lake with 2 active clubs. If you're ever around i'll take you for an early morning tug.

@swbca , '64, that would have been in Webster

My witnessing suggests that long butterknife is the ticket but a VERY slow throttle is clutch. mash it and there is too much power with not enough time to rise up that much mass out of the water, so it all drags until sproing goes the handle

@GaryJanzig , beware a 13p acme is going to run like a 14p oj, federal or Michigan. 430 is a big block prop. A 540 runs 100rpm/mph like you are used too. My experience on a different hull is the 4Force is most effective at spreading the propwash wide for roost mitigation. The 541 similar but more efficient, less frothing, and rpm/mph less effected to boat loading. Higher top end due to less parasitics. The 4Force let's the revs come more on launch, for a more exhilarating launch, but its not practical usable nor helpful for any of our skiers. If speed holding is your aim, I would give the edge to the acme I started with the same base engine. If you intend to keep the boat a long time, and mechanical, consider heads/cam/ Intake. You won't be disappointed. Speed holding is rock solid, I'm at 30 mph in 2.6, 40 in 4.6 to tops 49-50

Heh, Captain Tenneal

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Mothers VLR is legit

This is 34/28, friend skiing 32 off, is like cable skiing 82 supreme that was ready for the crusher 25 years ago, refurbed, then say 3500 in engine mods and modern prop. 0-30 in 2.6, 0-40 in 4.6, tops 49-50 28mph is similarly pleasant Yes someday I may address the spray But point is, for 100k and 40 years, this conversation shouldn't be happening, right?

Heh, half reminded me of class c tournaments decades ago, they would tow the Jr girls and Jr boys with the 2001sn promo at 22-24 mph, brutal. Not cool. Downright child abuse. Those with pull lobbied so the M1 M2 got the MC or supreme promos,

I wasn't impressed with it from what i saw viewing U17 at Pickos, it was launching the girls. The thrust cone not the wakes, but the difference is academic, one still has to ski across it. My 40 yo budget rig could have kept them planted and on the water better at those lengths.

@GaryJanzig Your oj is likely pretty good. Perhaps you mean Acme 540 13x12 or oj 4Force 13x13, as they are all about 100rpm/mph A 13p acme is for a big block or hot or stroked sb, and runs more like a 14p Oj, federal, Michigan, 13p acme would lug a base 240 and be uninspiring. the 4force you would not likely see same top mph, may loose one or two, but the propwash will be low and spread wide, markedly little roost in my experience. If your setup is carbed, and if base 240 it likely is, id consider heads cam intake for more go.