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Unread 03-09-2017, 08:05 PM
NW_Wellcraft90 NW_Wellcraft90 is offline
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Originally Posted by Destroyer View Post
Dash mounted speedometers are notoriously inaccurate. Use a GPS for a much more accurate reading. I've hit 53 in the Hackensack River on a flat day, but I was going downstream at the time so I don't know how fast the current was. My COG was 53 but my COW was probably less. (It's a fairly slow moving river though).

The boat in the pictures is my V21. They (Wellcraft) put a "bubble" on the stern of the boat to hang the engine from. It's not a bracket, it's actually a factory made part of the transom. That's how they get to call the boat a V21 instead of a V20. Kind of like modern day boats with "Mediterranean" swim platforms molded in. The makers add 2 feet of swim platform molded in and get to call a 19 foot boat a 21 footer.
Neat little bubble, yeah I know the dash speedos can be innacurrate. A guy I work with has a 20ft trophy with a 150 honda, he came out with us on the first run and it was very easy to accelerate past him at full throttle. He shot that first photo
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