Have driven a 38 foot Cigarette Top Gun with 2 X 900 HP Hawks and an Outerlimits with 2 X 1300HP Cobras (both at and over 100 MPH.....but those lads are just wild!
The fastest ive ever been in a boat was 70, maybe 80mph.... there are two that came to kind... one is a 19' dual console with a massive outboard well beyond its rating hanging off it, and thats the 70mph ride, and the other was a bass boat of all things... i want to say it was also 19' and a pioneer- also with a massive outboard it didn't rate... the bass boat had been clocked at touching 100mph... 98.6 to be exact, just like supposed human average temperature, but he didn't run it like that with me that day.
I've never driven a boat over 70... i can say that with absolute certainty... i have been over 60 a lot of times... my current boat, the 212, can hit 62-65 with a 26p prop, but i truly don't see the need. It'll hit right at 55mph with the 19p five blade and a little more with the 21p tri blade. Either are fine. It likes to walk about after 56-58mph anyway and it's really bad above 60..... so...... I'm good.
This drag boat doubles the fastest ive ever been.
Car? Nearing 190mph. Superbike? Exceeding 200mph by a digit or two. Boat? Im good at 60. Heheheheee....
Fastest for me was 80 MPH. A guy used to come around to the hangar and collect our waste fuel years ago for a boat he had. One day he asked if I wanted to take a ride to thank me for the fuel, I couldn’t pass up a boat ride.... Me thinking it was going to be a big boat with a diesel. We met at the dock @ 6am. He had an 18’ speed boat with an Allison turbine engine in it!
That sound is music to my ears. But that reminds me of old hot rod car experience. They would accelerate like a bat out of Hades but they didn't handle or stop very well.
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Regards,
Ian
The Third “B”
Secretary, Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club
https://www.rcyachtclub.com/
I've never driven a boat over 70... i can say that with absolute certainty... i have been over 60 a lot of times... my current boat, the 212, can hit 62-65 with a 26p prop, but i truly don't see the need. It'll hit right at 55mph with the 19p five blade and a little more with the 21p tri blade. Either are fine. It likes to walk about after 56-58mph anyway and it's really bad above 60..... so...... I'm good.
This drag boat doubles the fastest ive ever been.
Car? Nearing 190mph.
Superbike? Exceeding 200mph by a digit or two.
Boat? Im good at 60. Heheheheee....