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Lightnup
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Initially Posted - 11/12/2004 :  16:46:40  Show Profile
Steve Madden
'87 WK #5668 "Lorica"
Fort Myers, FL
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bear
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Response Posted - 11/12/2004 :  16:51:01  Show Profile
Having had a powerful "potsmoker" for 15 years I would really like to
know how that boat is balanced and trimmed while bringing the power up?
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 11/12/2004 :  18:07:10  Show Profile
I bet this boat has some serious prop walk!
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 11/12/2004 :  18:17:11  Show Profile
I think if you throttled up too fast that sucker would flip backwards! I wonder how many gallons per mile it burns!
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bear
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Response Posted - 11/12/2004 :  19:04:15  Show Profile
I wonder if it is just a showboat, maybe for Mercury Marine and doesn't get in the water.
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vera
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Response Posted - 11/12/2004 :  19:17:59  Show Profile
I heard of this boat! I hear it pulled the arms off of an inexperienced water ski'er!! That's awesome!
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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 11/12/2004 :  20:11:35  Show Profile
The boat was used for smuggling cars into China to avoid import duties (although it could only carry one car at a time)and was confiscated by Chinese authorities during an anti-smuggling crackdown.

Steve
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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 11/12/2004 :  20:14:00  Show Profile
Bear - You were a potsmoker for 15 years? Did you inhale?
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bear
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Response Posted - 11/13/2004 :  07:59:27  Show Profile
Never been around the stuff, but that 150 H.P. mercury on an 18ft runabout left any smoke about a mile behind it.
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tinob
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Response Posted - 11/13/2004 :  08:33:25  Show Profile
Yikes 1750 hp. Are they mounted on a boat or a floating gas tank?
Definitly a must to shut down while refueling or they'll eat it up faster than it can be put in.

Val on the hard DAGNABIT
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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 11/13/2004 :  10:51:22  Show Profile
That's just the trolling setup.

PW
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