Ridinng the SeaVee
 

Went out on my friends Sea Vee today, took a couple short videos for ya'll. The boat is a 77 25ft Sea Vee, its got a pair of 2.5L EFI Mercs on them, not much done to the power heads, mostly stock(stock reeds, stock heads and gaskets, no portibng, stock ECU's), set on 20" offshore mids with the cans removed, spinning 26P small ear choppers(needs 28's). We can't run it hard for long, having water flow issues, hope to have nose cones with low water pick ups next week. It accelerates like its been shot out of a cannon, the video doesn't do it justice. Enjoy the video. Ridge, turn up the volume!!

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Boy looks like you are holding on for dear life there my friend

I was filming the fly by video, the guy holding on for dear life was taking special care not to spill his "beverage"

Sweet! Nice lines on that one. I'm not a Merc guy, but video #3 was kinda sexy.

LOL Volume up over here. They are mounted high. 20" motors on a 25" bracket right? The choppers are made to surface, little porpoise action. Very little positive trim I notice, looks great. What a sweet hull too.

right now, any positive trim makes the heat buzzer go off real quick, hope to have that taken care of next week. It doesn't need any trim, it really flys the bow with those wheels, think about trying a set of lasers to calm it down a little, but the choppers are fun! Wonder what a set of cleavers would do?

Come get these tabs...he needs 'em worse than I do...:nic:

he's got tabs, they slow him down

The placement of my tabs make them near useless when I fly the V. They are 6" out of the water and catching a little spray is about all.

To quote Steve Steppe's comment about stepped hulls "if you are running fast enough, that part of the boat ain't in the water anyway"

update on the SeeVee, Marc took it out last week after we finally got nose cones on the lower units. It ran 71 mph both ways on the gps spinning 24P choppers. NO HEATING PROBLEMS! The tachs are only 6K and it bury's them, we figured assuming 10% slip, that should have put it at 6400(pushing thru the factory rev limiter). Next step is a set of Brucato ecu's with the rev limiter pushed up to 7200 and a promax curve. After that, 26p choppers. I'll let ya'll know how it runs

Sweet!

71 in a fishing boat will be sure to piss off the go fast big block crowd.

I found a Sea Vee project down in Gainesville Fla for $1500.

Damn I thought my uncle's v20 w a 225 was fast. That thing is crazy fast.

Bradford, buy that thing before I start thinking about it, seriously!!!!!

Bradford were was the sea vee on craigslist? I would like to see it how many feet?:sly:

LOL was on either Gainesville or North Central FL craigslist. A couple months ago. Was sitting in an open field on a rusty galvanized trailer. No engines. Def a project, but a cool hull worthy of it. 25 footer. Can't seem to find it now. Just cruise the different craigslists and type "Sea Vee" in the search.