Baller Wish Posted April 3, 2015 Baller Share Posted April 3, 2015 That's a pending world record by the way. 48 feet and 240 toes skimming across the water Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldjeep Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Funny how many triple 300's I saw today in ft myers today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 6balls Posted April 3, 2015 Baller Share Posted April 3, 2015 I wanna b part of next record attempt. We put up 6 behind @Razorskier1 boat. Tried 8 n stripped the center spline of the prop on hole shot. Old centurion with 225 Yamaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Andre Posted April 3, 2015 Baller Share Posted April 3, 2015 The hardest part was finding footers with 20 toes each! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef23 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 That is a lot of toes. We bent a pylon when I was about 14 trying to do 7 off the beach for 1 ski beach starts. I was just glad it wasn't me screwing around with our boat my Dad would have killed me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller lpskier Posted April 3, 2015 Baller Share Posted April 3, 2015 More action tomorrow at Lucky Lowe's Ski School in Lake Alfred. 42 foot wide jump ramp. Going for most skiers over at one time, most front flips, most back flips, most helicopters and then most number of wake boarders. I've been watching these show skiers practice all week. Lots of folks here from Wisconsin. The action starts at 7:30. Don't miss it! Quote Lpskier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 "48 feet and 480 toes skimming across the water" @Wish - wow, no wonder they can all barefoot. They must have huge feet with 10 toes on each foot. Edit: Just read Andre's post. He beat me to it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Wish Posted April 3, 2015 Author Baller Share Posted April 3, 2015 Cannot multi task very well..... or add apparently.. ooops.. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller swc5150 Posted April 6, 2015 Baller Share Posted April 6, 2015 I wonder how many feet of rope they're using? The wake really widens out back there. 900 HP, wow! Those Evinrudes looks cool too. I haven't paid attention to outboard motors in ages. Apparently they've come a long way. I just remember our old 65hp Evinrude that started 75% of the time, and never on the first turn of the key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhoover Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 A "clip-on" ignorant question, please. If 2 outboards require opposite turning props, what must an odd number of props turn to satisfy torque and cavitation problems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldjeep Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 @lhoover The outers are counter rotating and the middle has a longer shaft and is standard rotation. (At least on the boats that we were looking at last week in Ft Meyers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhoover Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 @oldjeep, no comprende "standard rotation". It has to be spinning the same way as one of its brothers so how do they determine which way that is? Plus, the torque and cavitation problems, as mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldjeep Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Standard rotation = counter clockwise. And yes the center engine would spin the same direction as the left side engine. I think the additional depth of the center engine has to do with distance below hull, not anything to do with cavitation. Looking at the boat from the rear When you have 1 outboard it spins CCW (Have torque issues here?) When you have 2 you get one CCW and one CW rotation 3 - CCW, CCW, CW 4 - CCW,CCW,CW,CW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Spuddy Posted April 7, 2015 Baller Share Posted April 7, 2015 This is just a guess but I think if they have three mounted on the back typically the one in the middle mounted lower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jordan Posted April 7, 2015 Members Share Posted April 7, 2015 The two outer engines counter rotate sort of cancelling each other out. The one in the middle becomes no different than when you have a single engine outboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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