HOW TO OPERATE A BIG OFFSHORE BOAT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ย. 2024
- Have you ever wondered how to operate a big offshore boat? There is a lot more to operating an offshore boat than your average pontoon or runabout. In this week's video we take my new to me Fountain Lightning 35 out for a high speed run and discuss the controls and what it takes to get it up on top of the water. Comment any questions or suggestions below on what you would like to see! Subscribe to the channel to see more videos on this boat, poker runs, car builds, and more!
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Excellent educational video, Single motor Fountains, tabs all down, twin, on all boats much more forgiving.
Nice video . I just picked up 97 Fountain 35 lightning. ❤
I’ve been in a 42 lightning my whole life and have never needed to mess with my tabs as much as you did in this one video. Granted it is a shorter boat and needs a little more but not as much as you were giving it
Yeah i agree. This video was filmed like 2 weeks after i bought it and my last boat had blue motors and was only a 32, i never used tabs. The guy told me to use the tabs to get it on plane lol. Once i found out i didnt need to i never do now. I need to make a new video there was a lot of stuff wrong with this one.
@@CARSTUDIOYT one thing for sure was the audio could have been better. However it is tuff to video when your going fast on the microphone. One thing with me, Im like you constantly looking at my gauges. My trim indicators are old school, and have no indication up at the helm.
Experienced captain! ✊🏽 Good video! I subscribed! 👊🏽
Keep at it man you’ll figure it out.
Only thing i was getting used to was the throttle and shifters being on the left side. This wasnt my first offshore boat. Its been a couple months now and im used to it tho lol.
That baby's nice! I need to bring mine down there next summer. Where does an out of towner put in at? Daniel Boone park maybe?
Loved your dream boat video. Congratulations!! I relayed because I just picked up my dream boat which is a scarab 38ft.
Thanks a lot! Thats awesome and congratulations to you too, there really is nothing like the feeling you get from running one of these big boats.
Would've like to have seen more shots of the from of the boat from the cockpit view, and also the stern to see how it's running on the water.
Thats the greatest feeling being throttle down and just bumping the trim and feeling the boat get light, less drag. You can really feel the boat come alive
yes it is!
@@CARSTUDIOYT If you want to see something cool, look up 'dollar marine special' on YT. Its a clip of an Apache racing offshore key west in 1990. The guy in the middle is my uncle on the steering. He used to race at Lake Cumberland Ky as well and set a record in the 80s.
The one on the throttles is Phil Lipscheutz, which he owns Lipship performance in Miami. He builds badass custom cigarettes. He has 3 mini cigs that he takes around to poker runs. Little 22s that run about 97mph.
That cigarette in the movie All about the Benjamins was his. I think his wifes actually. But if you look up Lipship performance online you will see his work and boats he has for sale. Thats my childhood dream.
Cigarette has always been my fav just bc being around them when I was a kid. He used to have me take off the Apache stickers when I was little and that was the coolest thing to me.
But I do appreciate and love a nice fountain, outerlimits or MTI. Formula makes one hell of a boat too. I watch all the tours of boat manufacturers on YT lol. The cats are neat and will always have the top end but im a V hull guy all the way.
@@CARSTUDIOYT Also if youre ever up for a fun road trip we have annual poker runs here at Cumberland Ky. Tons of fountains, outerlimits, cigs, everything. And its like mardi gras on the water the whole weekend. Always great footage online and YT.
A skater flipped in 2013 doing 160 and they didn't make it unfortunately
We also have Thunder Run and the annual 'raft up'. Which in 2010 we broke NCs record for having the most boats rafted together at one time. We set the record with 1,652 boats.
Now its a annual event and theres live bands that play on the water and everything. But its good people here, always glad to have more.
I go to cumberland poker run every year, I actually have a few videos on this channel covering it. I will be there next week also! staying on state dock in a house boat and will have my camera out. If you can get me on a nice apache/cigarette/etc. to do a boat review thatd be awesome. I am starting another youtube channel dedicated to powerboats.
thats awesome man, sounds like you had a great childhood. I would have loved to be around boats like that.
need to bring the beast to some big water, get into some Lake Erie chop and really see what that thing is made of!
Im planning a trip to bimini in the spring. Never thought about lake Erie but im sure thatd be a fun trip too!
@@CARSTUDIOYT go to Bimini in January or February get out of midwest cold & snow go to Erie in the summer Lake Erie Islands - The Key West of the Midwest
Love those boats. I had a SR 271 a while back. I still dream about it. There’s something about once you have something like that you can’t go with out it.
absolutely, I have a couple videos on here of a 21ft boat i built last year and i sold it after a few weeks to buy this one. Had a 32' baja with blue motors before this one and couldnt go smaller.
42' PR with staggered 1350's and #6 drives gets right up w/o tabs.
Those things are not limited to just big offshore boats. This applies to pretty much all boats that have trim tabs etc. 15 foot boats and up.
I would have been interested how do you maneuver these 30-50 foot boats at very slow speeds / near standstill when pulling out from or in to a berth on tight marina.
I assume none of these powerboats have props at the bow for maneuvering
Why does the right drive tab show to be moving when you trim it up. I noticed the left doesn’t move when you use the trim on the throttle.
One of the cables need replaced
@@CARSTUDIOYT gotcha wasn’t sure if it was because they were being moved together or some other reason. I good with lake boats lol I’ve never been on a boat in the ocean unfortunately.
Controls are there because Reggie was left handed. Not that he would think about everyone else in the universe but
You are correct, based on what ive heard. That is interesting he just made them for his preference!
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False. th-cam.com/video/SY9OJ9-D-6U/w-d-xo.html
They are one right because we came up racing kneel down boats that turned right. We steered with the left hand throttling with the right, made sense as the throttle hand added support when turning right.
I've never used tabs to get on plane not even in big cruisers.
This was probably the second time I had this boat out and was using the advice from previous owner. It doesnt need tabs to get on plane, I actually never used them on my boat either (32' baja). probably shouldve waited a few weeks to make this video! lol
Thanks for sharing! At any point does it feel like your're Sonny Crockett from Miami Vice?? How long would you say it takes to practice and learn effectively how to drive and control an offshore powerboat?
I had a Formula 272 SR-1 for 18 years.
Learned something every time out!
learning how to operate them already without being rich enough YET. I'll own one of this one day.
Makes a video titled “How to operate a big offshore powerboat”. The proceeds to operate a stock powered bravo boat incorrectly.
This title should be reserved for people that know how to trim and throttle 1000+ HP with surface drives.
Idea for another video, how to trailer a bigger offshore boat. Just an idea!
Thats a good idea! Im actually in the process of starting a whole other channel based on powerboats and mainly tours/reviews. Ill be posting a video on here soon with a link so check it out!
Is one of your drive indicators bad or were you only trimming one of your drives?
Port cable is frozen, they both trim up at the same rate
@@CARSTUDIOYT very nice. I just bought a 29 fountain with a single 525. Liking the channel. Looking forward to more fountain content!
When are you going to do some more videos?
Lake Cumberland video coming this week and another update on this boat soon
Nice boat! So is this the single step or twin step Fountain hull?
Single step!
What power do you have in this boat?
🇨🇦Why is your Port side drive iniacator not working?
Cable was broken. I need to delete this video, i had owned the boat for only a couple days and there was a lot of info that wasnt necessary. I just ran it like the previous owner told me to.
I find it helpful to ingest copious amounts alcohol.
Weed ????
if you have to watch this, dont even bother.. please.
How you operate the boat as a passenger, is the boat don’t run on “Thanks”. I’d pay $500 for gas, cooler of drinks and some small snacks for a poker run.
Dude you do not need your tabs to get up on plane I own a 38' lightning with Twin 502 I never need to use my tabs to get up on plane quickly
The steering wheel isn't straight it looks crooked
Steering wheel is way off for going straight.
You should think about scripting what you intend to say before filming.
Nice 👍 boat but I’m a little disappointed in the topend speed! With twin big blocks probably producing 850hp combined you’d think it would hit like 90mph plus. But I’m no boat expert either. Fastest boat I have owned was a 1997 Crestliner 1700 fishing boat with a outboard 115hp Johnson That did 53mph+ all aluminum boat btw. Boat actually gained about 2 mph by taking the engine cover off Throttle body air filter box off. Hahahahaha talk about ram air to the engine then but it made a difference and rpms picked up about 200rpms by doing that. So this is why I’m disappointed in your speed runs. You got 710hp more then I had but only did 22mph more. That boat must weigh like three times more then ours did if not more.
850 hp is not a lot for a boat like mine. It takes at least 1100-1200hp to reach 90 mph. My boat also weighs around 9k lbs give or take
@@CARSTUDIOYT Son of a gun thats a lot of weight😬no wonder! Lotta drag with that plowing through the water. I’m looking into buying a nice boat like this soon but I’d like something lighter! What year is yours btw
53 on GPS or the notoriously optimistically inaccurate factory "wishometer"? 😂
I have had many guys tell me how fast their boat was and they went by the factory speedometer. Then when they run next to my boat on GPS they see how slow their boat really is.
Also, this is a 35' Fountain. That's a lot of weight and more hull in water for more hydrodynamic drag. the more hull in the water the more power it takes to move it. That's why they put steps in the hull now to get the boat out of the water. Also why cats run faster because they pack air which lifts it out of the water.
Pretty scary that you have no idea how to trim or tab a boat properly. Most of what is in this video is wrong.
You should run it more you seem nervous is that lack of seat time of camera shhh yo
This was the 2nd time i had this boat out, ive hit a few poker runs since then and put probably 100 hours on it since this video. In hind sight i def should have had more seat time before i made this video, this hull handled way different than the 32’ baja outlaw i owned before it.
Terrible throttle and shifter layout. Never liked it on the left side.
Please god don’t listen to this guys instructions. You should never need tabs and drives to get that boat out of the water, you should be able to use throttle and the right prop’s. He’s so worried about tabs but not paying attention to throttle sync by the gauges it looks like they are about 300 rpm off but he is talking so much nonsense about tabs and drives I can’t here the harmonics of the motors. Ugh I could go on but it’s just gave me a headache
Still getting used to the boat. And giving instructions. Jesus christ😬
I beg to differ try a hydro stream vector on the pad doing 90;plus. That’s a different feeling.