Re: conquest marine mfg.
Greenwell, we are far and few between. There are about five Conquest boats around here. An older early '90s and a '99. There is a 2001 over on the Mississippi and then mine and her sister boat. There is one other, a late '80s I think, but have not seen it out for a few years. I did see one up in Wisconsin at the lake house last summer and have seen one in Arkansas on Norfork Lake.
I have the 5.0 L w/ Volvo Penta SX. I get around 51mph w/ 19p 4-blade alum. and have hit top speed of 56mph w/ 23p 3-blade.
I am working w/ a guy in the prop section to fine tune it. Unfortunatly, 24 hours after getting the 4-blade on, I trashed it. It took us three weeks to come up with that one, and he needed numbers to calculate to get a faster prop. Going to get another one and run some numbers by him to figure out what my next prop will be.
I don't run a SS prop. I boat mainly on the river here. I will be ordering one for the lakes I run.
To get a pic on, at the top of the repy area, in the tool bar, there is a paper clip. This will allow you to attach a pic. It has to have a file size small enough to upload. I had to e-mail myself the pic in a smaller file size to do it.
This winter, I am having a custom molded fiberglass swim platform built for her. I have found a company that makes them and they will work with me to make a mold pattern to fit my aft swim platform already built in to the boat.
I am also ordering Smart Tabs this fall to install.
A lot of people think it is a Crownline until they get closer. They all have compimented on how good she looks. She is starting to show her age though.
I am considering having a body shop give hew a good wet sand and buff over the winter.
So you must boat on the Ohio. How is the water and what do you think of the ride that boat gives you? Ever been down to Kentucky Lake? The wife and I are looking for somewhere else to go in the future and she does not like dirty water. Norfork is great but a little far for a long weekend. Kentucky lake is a bit close, but am unsure of the water clarity.
I had mine out on Lake Michigan Saturday. 4-6ft chop.
Man what a ride!
It was great. My buddy was with me in his 18' Crownline and turned around at 3 miles off shore. I went out about 9 and wow! The boat handled great. Was not able to get up much speed, mostly powered her out and back. Later, the waves dropped to about 2-4ft. Got her on top and never thought twice about it.
My buddies all gave me a hard time about buying a boat from a mfr that had gone out of business. I told everybody that I would rather buy a boat from a co. that closed by choice than one shut down by bankrupcy. And now, as of last week, Rinker owns Crownline, so go figure.
Maybe we should consider ourselves...members of an elite group
