Recent content by T-Rex

Took delivery today of a LX23. Love everything about it except the raised helm. It looks good, but there's a foot panel that's angled back toward the driver seat, and I have zero leg room. I'm 6'4" and feel like I'm driving a kids toy with my knees way up. Requires tilting the steering wheel...

Weird.  I've got a couple 48s, a bunch of 12s and a couple of the flat ones.  No gaps on any of them.  

I've got that same boat, same motor, same prop size/pitch.  I get maybe 22 mph top speed if i'm going downwind, just me on board, and low on fuel.  Load up people and fill the gas tank and it's closer to 20.  I thought about strakes too but if I want to go fast we get in the ski boat :) ...

Here's what I did on my ski boat.  I bought a sheet of HDPE plastic (such as King Starboard).  You can order it from US Plastics online.  I bought the 1/2" thick stuff and cut it down.  I glued a piece of Trex decking to the hull as a furring strip using Gorilla Glue 2-part epoxy, and screwed...

I left the Bennington harness intact and spliced the wires.

I swapped mine out with a JVC model that has bluetooth.  Radio reception is horrible so we only listen to the bluetooth iPhones.  It has two USB ports in the rear so we can also plug in an iPod.  Works great, but i did have to splice the wires together b/c the harnesses were not compatible.  The...