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Fluke Fishing
July 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Sun Dolphin Pro 120 Bass Boat
July 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This is the Pro 120 with a 2-stroke 15hp Evinrude on Knopps Pond. Maximum speed is 23mph with 1 person, 16 mph with 2 people and gear/trolling batteries. Planes really nice, gets in a sweet spot after 20 seconds or so. With a 5hp Briggs and Stratton 4-stroke only got 6mph (did not plane) upgrade helped alot.
Robo-Ski
July 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Perfect Pass speed control system.
During tournaments, slalom waterskiers must perform almost flawlessly to win. The boat driver must be perfect, too, steering the skiboat through an 849′ 8 7/8″ course in 16.08 seconds—with a tolerance of plus or minus 0.14 seconds—to count as a competition-acceptable 36-mph run. Holding a steady heading and speed with a skier exerting more than 400 pounds of side force on a boat is an almost superhuman skill. Inconsistent pulls can disturb skiers and cause controversy at tournaments.
For these reasons, Eric Horton invented PerfectPass, a speed control system for skiboats that takes the throttle out of the driver’s hand and p [Read more...]
Muscle Bound
July 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ilmor Engineering’s 10-cylinder MV10-S.
To go fast, you have to go big. And Ilmor Engineering is planning to outmuscle the big-block V-8 crowd with its new MV10-S, the first V-10 gasoline engine introduced for the marine performance market.
Ilmor may not be familiar to boaters, but the engine builder has extensive experience in the auto racing world, building motors for McLaren-Mercedes-Benz Formula One cars in Europe and for Honda in the Indy Racing League here. Based on the engine used in the [Read more...]