I was bitten by the boat bug at 1 time. I have some pics of my creation but they would have to be scanned to be used as they are not digital. I took a 88 bayliner capri open bow boat that originally came with a 125hp force outbard on it and replaced the 32mph wide open set up with a 3.4 liter mercury blackmax 300hp outboard. For those who dont know this is a v6 with 6 carbs 2 stroke engine! Anyways to make a longstory short the boat had a 50mph speedo in it and it would bury the needle at less then half throttle, I had to add trim tabs to the boat to be able to drive it as the only thing in the water was about a foot of the rear hull, it would easily do over 75mph! Changed the prop to a 4 blade chopper style to try and get some of the chime walk out of it, but you never could hold it wide open for more then a few seconds as you could lose control of it so easily. I absolutely loved the looks on these guys faces when youd blow by thier 40ft cigar boats with twin bigblocks with a bayliner with fishin rod holders across the back...LOL!! our lake here is only about 5-6 miles long, didnt take to long to go from end to end racin them big boats.
