now this is my kind of boat...

[TAB]

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/boa/4221194827.html

[Ulmus]

Nice, but I prefer the baby bootlegger (Number G 5).

[TAB]

yeah, but that one has 2 places to screw,       i really think it would be a great tahoe boat.

[ellis4538]

TAB,

If you get it post, in use, pictures!

Richard

[TAB]

Its about 1300 miles away, i don't have the $, and it would cost a fortune in diesel to drive down there and back.   i can get 17-18 mpg empty at 55,  65 is maybe 14.   it would be about 10 mpg towing.

[Sponsor]

[Ulmus]

What about having it shipped?

PS:  I see the merits of your choice.   

[MikeBjerum]

The description of twin 350's sounded ok, the photo with quadrajets made me say you bethca, and then I saw they are rated at 260.  WTF?!?!?!
That ain't no cigar boat!  Get some power in there and call me back.

[TAB]

THose boats were never ment for speed and its not a "cigar" style boat.  260 form a 350 in a boat with an alpha drive is standard.   remember boat motors take alot more abuse then your car does.    anything more then 300 on those drives and your asking for trouble.  ask me how i know.  Buidling a 350 hp 350 is not cheap, about $7000   by the time you add exhuast carb and rebuild.   with high quality parts that will last hundreds of hours 10k  is closer.   

[MikeBjerum]

TAB,

I spent my youth near Lake Mead.  I know how to build boats for power and speed.  Brought that knowledge back here and helped a few ski friends. 

It is about torque!

You want a boat to go?  454!  500hp without ruining driveability or longivity, and torque curve climbs right with it.  Torque turns those big steep screws, and you dance on the surface while the horses do their job 

We used to pull the jets off boats, glass the transom, and put in direct drive shaft and rudders.  454 with a dual quad tunnel and inverted headers.  That is what you call a River Rat!  Today the guys are adding nitrous for the hole shot, but nothing else has changed.

And by the way, the ad is trying to claim cigar style.  That's craigslist:  Suckers love it. 

[Timothy]

You may remind the lad, M58...

Water skiing was invented in a town in Minnesota south of Red Wing...  Lake Pepin I believe...technically a little, wide area of the Mississippi...  The east and west coast ain't got nothing on the boating industry of the Midwest... 

Gear heads make things go fast with little regard for anything other than speed...dirt, pavement, water, snow, ice, mud, cow shit...etc..