Bob dont know if I buy the planing theroy, Way too much boat out of the water.... i have ridden in a few HTM with Ken when he was alive and they did ride nice, albeit, I have been in a few that scared me... I think that goes back to being a drivers boat and you really need to know whats up.....
Hell I almost bought one, ken had me sold, but that came to an unforunate end...
You guys are very quick to jugde. I drove my SR through all that. It was rough out there Sat. morning. People are excited to have a helcopter shot. You trim up a little and jump a roller. I can tell you that the red sl30 was doing 85mph all day in that junk. Look in the mirror before you speak.
C'mon man, this is Hot Boat...they have a magazine...nobody is quick to judge.
All boats can get out of control. I had a good friend that went over in a Eliminator 25 on the parker strip. He caught an edge up by echo and went over very quick.
you all need to remember that the HTM SR and SS are 24foot boats
and you keep comparing them to 26foot and up boats
and Ive bin in a DCB Mach26 that got some good air so get over all the finger pointing
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I was waiting for you.. haha your all over the htm threads. I can't wait to see ur boat on the water this summer.
I am staying out of this debate. My opinions on HTM are rather well documented.
Kilrtoy,
Well I was there with my boat and watched most of the photo shoots since I was kind of in the back of the pack. I can tell you that this was the case in the photo that you were referring to. I do agree with you that they are a drivers boat. I also will say that I stood mine up fairly high also when taking off. Most of us will because most of them are built with alot of HP. I have learned the hard way that with about 1000HP if you don't baby it coming out of the hole that weak link is going to break. Thus with 6 people in mine at the regatta and coming on plane pretty slowly alot of my boat was out of the water also for quite awhile. In addition look at the sequence numbering of the photo's the helicoptor was shooting from start of take off to the end of the cove.
Not trying to be argumentitive just seemed that there was a bit of bashing starting again which seems to be par for the course when it comes to HTM posts.
I have seen you run and yes your boat runs hard and looks bad ass.....
I still think way too much is out of the water on the tail end....
Either way, they got alot of good running shots of alot of sick painted boats...
I guess from a gel point of view mine is kind of a plane jane. Some of the new colors are beyond me. Thanks for the compliment it does ok for a stock 350
I guess from a gel point of view mine is kind of a plane jane. Some of the new colors are beyond me. Thanks for the compliment it does ok for a stock 350
Yeah and im running twin merc 25HP's.....with plastic 2 blade props
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