See why below



http://spiff.rpaisley.com/digital_cam/2003...030626-boating/



http://spiff.rpaisley.com/digital_cam/20030626-towing/





Went on Tuesday too. Now if I only had a decent job!

 

cool boating is the ****. what kind of boat is it?

 

Get a ski pole. Keeps the rope up away from the water while your skier is slaloming, means less jerking on the rope.



Kneeboards are fun, we never got a wakeboard, but they look pretty fun too.



Man I wish I lived closer to home so I could borrow the folks boat!

 

1981 Chaparral 198 (19'8")



Open bow cruiser

3.8 V6 with 2bbl carb

seats 9 and when new had a top speed of 45



Current engine is hurting so one of these days I'm tempted to install a 4.3 TBI engine out of a blazer into it.

 

we have a wakeboard but it gets pretty painful behind our boat. 18 foot fiberglass speed boat with a 450hp chevy 350 into a berkley jet drive system.



heres two pics of it sitting. we jus took the dash apart for performance guages, hence the seats being out. tucked under the front is a lovely foot pedal. the motor is covered to keep weather off and out of it.



http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~kr356779/boat1.jpg



http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~kr356779/boat2.jpg





Its going to end up with a rotary. my dad has 3k to spend on the motor, any suggestions?

 

Why take out the 350? No realistically available rotary will perform as well as that in a boat.

 

as light as it is, and being that the rotary spins the same direction naturally as the jet drive, i totally beg to differ.

 

My friend is installing a rotary in the reproduction Garwood Speedsters he manufactures

 

My pops has a 23 foot cobalt with a 454 MAG in it. The thing ******* flys. Top spped of like 65 mph. Like big comfy boat.





I ride a supra ski boat with a 351 cleavlend (sp?). That pulls hard and is pretty fast for a ski boat. Kneeboarding blows lol, wakboarding is the ****. Im going to the lake this weekeend, mabye ill take some pics.

 

I guess maybe in a jet drive. Obviously I like watersports though so I wouldnt be willing to give up any low end torque. I want to get out of the water ASAP. Although too much is overkill. Plus I've always been a sucker for a wicked sounding V8 in a boat with thru hull exhaust!