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SPECS
· Twin 5.7L 260 hp Merc with Bravo 2 outdrives

· LOA 34'9"

· Beam 11'0"

· Dry weight 10,800 lbs
Amazing...a 34-foot, twin engine boat whose dry weight is only
4000 pounds more than my 25-footer. High tech materials?
You actually stepped in it again Harry. The weight/foot of my
32 foot boat is still far greater than your 25 footer......65
1/2 pounds/foot to be exact.

Tee-hee. ;-)


Nice theory, but the beam is 18" wider.

Dan
OK. Taking total square foot (assuming a full beam along the
entire length of the boat) mine is still about 20% heavier/ft2.
An absolutely idiotic, simple-minded comparison for any number of
reasons, not the least of which is the fact that that old bubble
boat of
yours had about 2600 pounds tied up in engines.
Nice try. Take off 1300 pounds and the boat is still heavier/ft2
than your Parker.
I said the weight comparison was idiotic for any number of reasons,
engine weight being just one. Oh...and my single outboard only
weighs about 500 pounds, so keep deducting. And also deduct all
those "cruising bubble boat amenities" on that old bubble boat, too.
I suspect the hull weights of the two boats are practically the
same. You really don't know much about boats.

"OK. Taking total square foot (assuming a full beam along the
entire
length of the boat) mine is still about 20% heavier/ft2." Idiocy
in the kind of comparison you are trying to make with boats of two
completely different footprints, or on any other basis, too.

Try picking your posting positions a bit more carefully.

Hey....*you* brought it up................*I* proved you wrong.
No, Jim, all you proved was that a 32' bubble boat weighs more than a
25' fishing boat. D'oh. But you managed to convince yourself again.
What a surprise.
You brought it up Harry. All I did was prove you wrong.

BTW: You conveniently cut this out from your reply so I will ask
again.

Where did you get the 1,300 pounds for the motor weight? I doubt a
5.7L 250 HP motor and outdrive weighs that much.

But even using that figure.............you lose. So solly Challie.

You stepped in it again Harry



Jim, Jim, Jim. Go learn a little about boat design and post back when
you actually know something useful. Anything. So what's a little
outdrive like you had weigh? 1000 pounds? Does that include all its
wiring? Does that include the prop? Somewhere between 1000 and 1100
pounds? Twice as much as my outboard.

You not only step in it every time you post about boats here, Jim; you
live in it.

A 5.7 L engine weighs 600 pounds. A Bravo II outdrive weighs no more
than 300 pounds.

You are way off with your weight estimates Harry.

Nice try though.




You say it weights 900 pounds and I guessed it weighed 1000 and I;m way
off?

You're an idiot.

Wait. I'll check the Mercruiser site.


Ahhh. 1000 pounds. Guess I was right and you were wrong. As usual.

Wrong again Krause. You said the outdrive weighed 1000 pounds. It doen't.

The combined engine and outdrive weighs 1,000 pounds.

Nice try.