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oscar1

how difficult is to install the full cover in your boat

YYZRC

@oscar1 it’s not bad, but very heavy. I didn’t have help and was able to install it myself - I’m no @rando3113 but I can usually work smart!

Since you don’t have a snow load to worry about, you could use a much lighter “beam” from bow to hardtop. I used a double 2x4. 

oscar1

wow it is a lot of work. it look great

J3ff

Just hanging around in FL in December.. 2 air shows in 48 hours, another one tomorrow... 

J3ff

aero3113

Port Jefferson 

LaRea

I shot this video yesterday in Miami.  There are two major routes jammed with multi-million-dollar yachts, and they cross just north of Brickell Key.  Gotta keep your head on a swivel!  I saw a couple of passes that would have made me uncomfortable.

https://youtu.be/a1S_1q5ItzM

J3ff

No thank you to that!!

TonyG13

They should put in a few markers and make it a roundabout.

LaRea

The channels are pretty narrow.  I saw two 70-footers heading for a certain collision, and I started getting really worried.  Lo and behold, the stand-on vessel stayed his course, and the give-way vessel gave way.  But I'll bet there have been some collisions.

rasbury

P51....we had one in Orlando you could ride in for a grand....

mattie

Drove by our city docks at lunch to see loading pleasure yachts onto the deck of a European freighter. Pretty neat. Not sure how they winterize them once they pull them out.

Guessing they may have been sold over in Europe or just owners that had their boats sent to the Great Lakes for the summer.

Pershing has surface drives.

rasbury

ah yes, lets ship our yacht to the Bahamas for our week vacation and then ship it back...it's only money and we have to have write offs! 

randy56

Do they haul em like that, because they don't know how to back up a trailer? Looks like they have huge ratchet straps on the cleats. 

LaRea

And we complain about spending $250 to haul and block.  

BTW the other boat is a 2008 Hatteras 80.  At thirteen years old, she can be yours for a cool $3M.
https://www.rjcyachts.com/featured-yachts-for-sale/2008-hatteras-80-open-bridge-victory_444

mattie

I guess that is that same Hatteras - that's for sale. 
I've seen big cruiser boats arrive here in the springtime on the back of ocean going freighters.
But never seen any of them leave in the fall.

Can't imagine the shipping costs. Workmen climbing all over the boats like ants battening them down.
Try & get a pic when the big boat leaves.

rasbury

What is a surface drive on a Pershing?

aero3113

It makes them to go fast 😎. Not a Pershing but awesome!

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXBiUQ5AQg-/?utm_medium=copy_link

Aqua_Aura

One of our club members has a Harley 42' with twin engine  surface drive. I saw it once on the river but haven't had a chance to see it up close. 

LaRea

@rasbury - surface drive means surface-piercing props.  When it's on plane, the hub and the top half of the prop are completely out of the water.  Any time you see a boat hauling a$s and throwing a huge rooster-tail of water behind it, that's probably a surface drive.  

rasbury

so it's not a out drive and it's not a thru hull shaft...what the heck is it @LaRea
? google did not help on this one! interesting!

LaRea

Arneson is one of the big makers of surface drives ...

YYZRC

What are the downsides? Docking/low speed control, swimming hazard, anything else?

mattie

Better fuel efficiency, more speed, greater steering accuracy. No underwater appendages to slow you down.
Not so good for docking. And, you need a huge swim platform.

hey FWIW: I read that a bunch of Mercury drives were considered surface drives. Bravo One XR Sport Master, NXT, etc.
Guess Merc built a twin prop surface drive called the Blackhawk in the 90's. Never seen one personally. Heard of them tho.

aero3113

YYZRC said:

What are the downsides? Docking/low speed control, swimming hazard, anything else?

What swimming hazard?? 😂

LaRea

I saw one forum comment saying the boat had to reach 45 mph before getting on plane.  (Obviously a go-fast, not an express cruiser hull.)

Lake_Bum

Most of the go-fast boats around here that have 600+ horsepower are running Mercury XR drives.  I've never heard them referred to as a surface drive, but I really could care less about that style of boating haha. 

aero3113

@Lake_Bum the XR’s aren’t surface drives.

earl1z19

They dont like to back up very well from what I hear but to go 70+ I guess there are concessions

rasbury

we see a lot of extended prop shaft type boats around here for duck hunting/shallows...I guess that is the same thing....