Bullhead bully
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OK in case you’re completely new here all of you know I’m a big fan of Nordic. No doubt. However I am a boat whore. So whatever gets my adrenaline pumping that’s the direction I’m going to go as long as it’s an outboard.
I was lucky enough to be driving Nordic‘s 35SS with 400s.( I’m still waiting on my 450s. ) So they gave me their boat to drive.
So here is my 100% honest opinion.
We ran to the Golden Gate bridge.
We ran the big cat poker run today. We laid down 350 miles in two days.
When we got done I blasted off back to SoCal. My adrenaline is still racing. This boat is so much fun!! Seriously! I’m not on anyone’s payroll , Boating is my passion but to have a cat that turns more like a V leaning in all the time especially in high speed turns of the Delta! That’s crazy, I was pretty much blown away in the first 20 minutes yesterday morning as we made our way out of Discovery Bay towards the Golden Gate bridge. The S turns is what it’s looking for. Something you would expect out of a 20 foot boat. NOT A 35 FOOT CAT ! WTF !
It welcomes the big chop. We proved that yesterday as we entered San Francisco Bay. It’s always a mishmash of water out there you never know which way it’s going to come. And then you get the ferry boat which lays down a seriously large roller.
Best of all the nasty hop that all the high speed ture tunnels have isn’t there. ( Believe me I am very familiar with the nasty tunnel slapping hop that happens around 50 mph. You can’t run them there. You have to get through that and go to 80. But sometimes you can’t run 80! You want to run 50 because the water is just so nasty or traffic doesn’t allow you to go faster safely. This boat doesn’t have the tunnel slap (because of the very deep tunnel).
We were running 4 to 5 big guys and 100 to 200 gallons of fuel all weekend.
Speeds. Depending on conditions we ran 90 most of the time. Occasionally jumping into the 100 to 105 mph area. I propped way down in pitch because I knew we were going to be heavy and in and out of a lot of corners.
Today when we left Pittsburgh and ran to Stockton traffic was light and we Rolled !!! It was happy and so incredibly fun to drive.
What an incredible machine! It definitely exceeded my expectations and after putting almost 10 hours on this boat I’m a believer.
This boat is definitely different! No doubt about it wide sponson‘s. Deep tunnel. Corners like no tunnel I have ever owned. Most of my true tunnels have a happy turning point and then it switches over to a aggressive bitting turn. This thing is consistent through the turns very very predictable.
Now I’m just ready for mine to get completed. It’s so close just waiting on power.
Come on 450s. We need to get ready for Lake Powell Challenge.
Thank you Nordic! For letting me run your boat !
I was lucky enough to be driving Nordic‘s 35SS with 400s.( I’m still waiting on my 450s. ) So they gave me their boat to drive.
So here is my 100% honest opinion.
We ran to the Golden Gate bridge.
We ran the big cat poker run today. We laid down 350 miles in two days.
When we got done I blasted off back to SoCal. My adrenaline is still racing. This boat is so much fun!! Seriously! I’m not on anyone’s payroll , Boating is my passion but to have a cat that turns more like a V leaning in all the time especially in high speed turns of the Delta! That’s crazy, I was pretty much blown away in the first 20 minutes yesterday morning as we made our way out of Discovery Bay towards the Golden Gate bridge. The S turns is what it’s looking for. Something you would expect out of a 20 foot boat. NOT A 35 FOOT CAT ! WTF !
It welcomes the big chop. We proved that yesterday as we entered San Francisco Bay. It’s always a mishmash of water out there you never know which way it’s going to come. And then you get the ferry boat which lays down a seriously large roller.
Best of all the nasty hop that all the high speed ture tunnels have isn’t there. ( Believe me I am very familiar with the nasty tunnel slapping hop that happens around 50 mph. You can’t run them there. You have to get through that and go to 80. But sometimes you can’t run 80! You want to run 50 because the water is just so nasty or traffic doesn’t allow you to go faster safely. This boat doesn’t have the tunnel slap (because of the very deep tunnel).
We were running 4 to 5 big guys and 100 to 200 gallons of fuel all weekend.
Speeds. Depending on conditions we ran 90 most of the time. Occasionally jumping into the 100 to 105 mph area. I propped way down in pitch because I knew we were going to be heavy and in and out of a lot of corners.
Today when we left Pittsburgh and ran to Stockton traffic was light and we Rolled !!! It was happy and so incredibly fun to drive.
What an incredible machine! It definitely exceeded my expectations and after putting almost 10 hours on this boat I’m a believer.
This boat is definitely different! No doubt about it wide sponson‘s. Deep tunnel. Corners like no tunnel I have ever owned. Most of my true tunnels have a happy turning point and then it switches over to a aggressive bitting turn. This thing is consistent through the turns very very predictable.
Now I’m just ready for mine to get completed. It’s so close just waiting on power.
Come on 450s. We need to get ready for Lake Powell Challenge.
Thank you Nordic! For letting me run your boat !
