"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:31:50 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
Those of you who have followed the speed saga of my Ranger 200C
Sportfisher, it has now entered a new chapter.

I got this idea to weigh the boat/motor/trailer fully rigged with
T-top, full fuel/oil/batteries and trolling motor on a certified
scale.

It weighed:

Wait for it....

Wait for it....

5,000 lbs.

Which is 500 lbs over the trailer rating which is 4500 lbs.

Which means that the boat is about 1,000 to 1,200 lbs over weight all
by it's lonesome.

Which goes a long way to explaining why I can't get past 50 even with
the new E-TEC.

Now I need to find out why.

And why I didn't think of that five years ago. :)

How much fuel does it hold? A full tank and two good batteries will eat
up that 500 pound overage.

Nope. The boat is rated for 1800 lbs max - that's gross weight, fuel,
top, batteries, peeples, engine, etc.

I'm not at all sure about this and have a message into Ranger, but the
way I figure it, it's about 1,000 lbs - maybe as much as 1200 lbs -
over weight - that's the boat that's over weight.

Which explains a lot actually. I've been through a couple of brake
calipers, the brakes seems to go very quickly. Plus, as you may
remember, the bow never had any lift on it, I changed six different
props on the FICHT - never could get more than 41 mph out of the boat.
My Contender is faster by a lot.

When the E-TEC was installed, with the longer leg it regained some bow
lift, but the speed hasn't really improved at all.

Be interesting as this goes on.

Something doesn't sound quite right at 1800 lbs max gross weight.

The hull must be 1000+ lbs, engine about 500 lbs, 300 lbs (50 gal) of fuel.

Now where do you put the fisherman, let alone gear and extras?