Xring01
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Educate me...
Is that a good boat?
Pros
Cons
thoughts...?
Is that a good boat?
Pros
Cons
thoughts...?
Also good to know if it’s a ELI or ELB boat.
This has me kinda interestedView attachment 827282
I think this is my buddies old boat.
Warlock, haven't heard that name in a while.There is one in Parker that is grey with fabric sides. Not sure if it’s an eliminator bottom or warlock. All I know is it sounds very healthy and takes about a mile to get on plane.
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There is one in Parker that is grey with fabric sides. Not sure if it’s an eliminator bottom or warlock. All I know is it sounds very healthy and takes about a mile to get on plane.
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I think the grey and fabric is an early Carerra and is bigger than 24'
Damn, now that you said that, I remember it was hard to get on plane, I remember him stopping and starting over if it didn’t roll over.Warlock, haven't heard that name in a while.
The first 26 Advantage Party Cats had fabric sides
Hull id numbers that begin with ELB were built at the factory in Mira Loma, if it’s an ELI it wasn’t built by eliminator it was built by a rapidly defunct arrangement bob had to lease the molds to an organization in the mid west. The molds were repoed by bob after the payments were not made. Not saying an ELI boat is a bad boat, it just wasn’t built by the people still building them today which is important to alot of people.can you expand on the deference
and whats better
Why did it submarine?The first one was a jet, we submarined the front and stuffed the boat to the console on its first trial. Threw about six of us off the front for a quick swim. The look on Harry's face was priceless. Second one was an outboard built for Mert Littlefield with a 235 Johnson, it was later converted to a jet also. All the Party Cats were built with stainless rails and canvass sides for the first couple of years. Surprisingly the new deck with fiberglass sides was much lighter than the stainless rails and canvass .
Don’t remember the name but pretty sure that boat belonged to one of Bob’s buddies.View attachment 827282
I think this is my buddies old boat.
Why did it submarine?
Not much different than today's small decks in certain situations.Not much displacement up front, four small people sitting up front, and only two in the rear. Center of gravity was pretty far forward with jet pump intake and cast iron big block. Heading down river in about 5 mph current ( Blythe area ). Turned up river into current, came off throttle, nose went down and continued to submarine until the intake came out of the water. Real slow speed deal, but happened real fast.
Not much different than today's small decks in certain situations.
Basically the 21' to 23' models even occasionally larger models. I'm not a hater, they make awesome river boats, but have been known to have a little problem in rough lake conditions taking water over the front. All depends on conditions, situation and driver capabilities.What’s considered a today’s small deck boat?
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Basically the 21' to 23' models even occasionally larger models. I'm not a hater, they make awesome river boats, but have been known to have a little problem in rough lake conditions taking water over the front. All depends on conditions, situation and driver capabilities.