February 6, 2010 9:21 PM PST
28’ skeeter, 2- 200 hp Merc’s , 103 mph on the Mississippi river
Fast boats are fun, friend had a V-drive 20' SK boat, 428 with Tunnel Ram, putting along one day minding our own business, as usual, another SK with jet drive approached from the opposite direction, it was a real pretty one like you see in the magazines, all chromed up. Ed's boat didn't have no chrome and the paint WAS faded a bit, they pointed and laughed at us, I said to myself Uh-Oh better hang on......... Ole Mr. Ed made a quick trim tab adjustment spun a 180 and let it eat, pretty boy'z in the jet drive seen us a comin and actually laid down like you would do on a bike to go faster. I reckon they didn't know what a V-Drive was, back then jet-boats didn't run much past 60 or 70 mph. We went past them on the right like they was in a dingy, circled and passed them again. Mr. Ed done did a donut around that pretty boats ass, they gave us a Peace Sign after that and went on.
Just scanned this pic of him I took back in the 70's, have had it hanging on the wall for ever.
February 7, 2010 5:09 AM PST
That looks like fun to me, nice pic.. Yeah it was a blast, love the sound of Merc's
February 7, 2010 6:12 AM PST
180mph on a closed drag strip. My brother done 210 on the same strip on a modified hayabusa, when he won his heat a reporter asked him what was the bikes top speed. 220mph when the guy asked him if he'd done it my brother said No you'd be killed at that speed.............defies logic!!!
February 7, 2010 6:20 AM PST
My VTX 1300c will only do about 120 feels like its governed, my son flys by me on his CBR600RR, he can do almost 160 on that.
shid get a good 175 mph on a good RR.
February 7, 2010 6:21 AM PST
mine wid be round about the 160 mark .
February 7, 2010 7:35 AM PST
Around 130 in my old 67 GTO, floating along with them real good drum brakes. 107.6 on GPS in my last boat, 598 @ 815hp. If you want to break the century make in a boat be prepared pay and pay and pay....then break.
February 8, 2010 9:13 PM PST
The fast bikes today all have 150+ hp, unless they are strapped and stretched you just can't stab the throttle with them, you got to be easy to keep them on the ground in the first couple gears, I can pretty much piss most them off with my bike under 100 mph through the twisty's and off the line. Mr. Honda knew that when he de-tuned and re-designed the ten year old CBR900RR into the 919 like I got. Backed off the compression and changed the cam grind for bottom and mid range for more controllable horsepower, it works.