Paul65k
Schiada Baby.......Yeah!!
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So..........I finally got a chance to get in the boat today for a little fun after working almost full time on the new house for the last 10 days.
When we took off this morning we were only able to get a whopping 29 MPH out of our Premiere 225 PTX (Tritoon) with Honda 150 O/B.....WTF??:grumble:
The boat has been just sitting (in the water) for the last few weeks and must have gotten a little "Mucky" on the bottom::thumbsdown
Well........We find a cove and put her on the beach, I grab a ScotchBrite Pad and crawl under the boat scrub all three tubes. It probably took me all of 15 minutes and I got to cool off at the same time.
We were able to coax 34 MPH out of her on the way home.....that's a ~15% increase in speed and efficiency.....pretty good return for 15 minutes.:thumbsup
This is going to be the new first thing I do when we put the Toon on the beach from now on!!!
The Tubes were treated with Sharkhide when it went into the water a year ago.....sounds like I'll have to pull it out this winter and have them redone again.
We will be leaving the boat in the water full-time to use as transportation between the house in the city and our place on the water at the Palms on the CA side.......anyone have any suggestions on how best to keep the tubes clean going forward????:headscratch:
When we took off this morning we were only able to get a whopping 29 MPH out of our Premiere 225 PTX (Tritoon) with Honda 150 O/B.....WTF??:grumble:
The boat has been just sitting (in the water) for the last few weeks and must have gotten a little "Mucky" on the bottom::thumbsdown
Well........We find a cove and put her on the beach, I grab a ScotchBrite Pad and crawl under the boat scrub all three tubes. It probably took me all of 15 minutes and I got to cool off at the same time.
We were able to coax 34 MPH out of her on the way home.....that's a ~15% increase in speed and efficiency.....pretty good return for 15 minutes.:thumbsup
This is going to be the new first thing I do when we put the Toon on the beach from now on!!!
The Tubes were treated with Sharkhide when it went into the water a year ago.....sounds like I'll have to pull it out this winter and have them redone again.
We will be leaving the boat in the water full-time to use as transportation between the house in the city and our place on the water at the Palms on the CA side.......anyone have any suggestions on how best to keep the tubes clean going forward????:headscratch:
