Tuff Boat on Long Island

**Frank Molé** · 07-25-2015, 02:03 PM

looks great,get the X

**Dirk Pitt** · 07-25-2015, 02:11 PM

I know all the choice's you guys present are valid options, the x of course is bad as they come, the xs is a proven option with plenty of data to go with it, the 400r I think is smoke and mirrors, if its not at 6900 7000 range, its not producing the top of the hp range, than theres the g2, very impressive, but steering is the issue with that, and lastly the 300g1, where water pressure may be an issue, but that I have an option of taking the gear case and modifying to a sportmaters specs, size and demensions,and location of water pickups, I can also put water directly to the power head via a flush pickup on either side of the pad, Im honestly leaning towards white, Bombardier is light years ahead of Mercury in so many aspects...................althought the outboards, jetskis etc, are owned by the family, they have taken there products to another level...

**CharlieN** · 07-25-2015, 02:18 PM

You can feed the waterpump from a transom pickup easily enough.

**mragu** · 07-25-2015, 03:26 PM

Greetings from the Mediterranean sea. Will be in ROme tomorrow. I thought you were waiting for me to come back?

Congrats! Why would you go with a 400R on this when you can send an X or XS to DBS and get 370HP. Then the 15" mid.

**noli** · 07-25-2015, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Dirk Pitt

... I want to publicly thank John for all the curtesies he exstended to me, he is one of the kindess gentleman I have ever met, his attention to detail is incrediable, his boat cave is nothing like I have ever seen, he truly made the transaction painless and pleasurable "Thank you John"
The boat really is a piece of jewery...... it is so beautiful he did a incrediable job, so did Tuff obviously, you really have to see it to appricate the beauty of his detail to rigging......and the craftmanship of Tuff

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Everything that I experienced as well with John M.

You gotta see the 300X I just bought from him... (def marine jewelry)

Dirk, congrats on a beautiful boat. I luv the color and interior as well.

Who knows, perhaps a Tuff 28 is still in your future.

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**noli** · 07-25-2015, 03:29 PM

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Dirk,

Just looked at your attached pic.

looks like that Tuff just rolled out of the factory

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**Dirk Pitt** · 07-25-2015, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by noli

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Everything that I experienced as well with John M.

You gotta see the 300X I just bought from him... (def marine jewelry)

Dirk, congrats on a beautiful boat. I luv the color and interior as well.

Who knows, perhaps a Tuff 28 is still in your future.

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Thanks Noli, but a that Tuff 28 "DEMO" will never be in my future.........

**Dirk Pitt** · 07-25-2015, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by mragu

Greetings from the Mediterranean sea. Will be in ROme tomorrow. I thought you were waiting for me to come back?

Congrats! Why would you go with a 400R on this when you can send an X or XS to DBS and get 370HP. Then the 15" mid.

Shouldnt you be eating Greek salad?

**Dirk Pitt** · 07-25-2015, 06:00 PM

this how I found the boat, air conditioned, john calls it a Boat Cave, i would consider it a museum, a testament, to Mercury Marine, if I had to guess he bleeds black, the detail, the organization, you could have dinner off the floor, i just cant say enough good stuff about him, if anyone ever gets the opportunity to buy anything from him dont even give it a second thought...................

**Superbender** · 07-25-2015, 10:55 PM

Joe congrats on new boat,you just can't beat the performance of the Mercury 300xs,the g2 is geared toward fisherman/pleasure boaters not even on the platform as the Mercury.besides that are you really gonna be happy with hoser kicking the tar out of you and that fine boat every weekend?Again best of luck I'm jealous

**Dirk Pitt** · 07-25-2015, 11:10 PM

Originally Posted by Superbender

Joe congrats on new boat,you just can't beat the performance of the Mercury 300xs,the g2 is geared toward fisherman/pleasure boaters not even on the platform as the Mercury.besides that are you really gonna be happy with hoser kicking the tar out of you and that fine boat every weekend?Again best of luck I'm jealous

your right about the xs the data is all there, but 300hp is 300 hp, the rpm range is identical, the varable is the gear case, i have someone that can modify it to the demensions of a sportmaster, FYi I know you know Chris Cox, he has a 27 kyptonite, it had a 300x, joey took it off and put a 300 g2 the boat went the same speed, now as far as Hoser, he deserves to beat me after all the times i gave it to him

Im just curious where are all the evenrude guys?

**CharlieN** · 07-26-2015, 04:21 AM

Originally Posted by Superbender

Joe congrats on new boat,you just can't beat the performance of the Mercury 300xs,the g2 is geared toward fisherman/pleasure boaters not even on the platform as the Mercury.

So are Yamahas but you have a crew that does alright.

**pointer** · 07-26-2015, 09:59 AM

So why isn't the Tuff 28 going to Long Island?

pointer

**Dirk Pitt** · 07-26-2015, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by gm250

I don't know what you mean we just chase the fish .I love my fish motor but Mercury is the best

. I think the etec is nice but we're do you go for warranty work?

man you bring up a great point, I have that covered as long as he's around LOL,
but this is my dilemma, I have had nothing but Mercs all my life, and Im not bashing them because Ive spend thousands on there products, and they Mercury the company has always been good to me because of my relationship wit a certain someone.... saying that now I have a choice, for a mere $20000.00 I get the privilage to go maybe ??? faster I dont really know maybe our leader ( the Great Werner Von Baum ) knows, but anyway, for that privilage I get to change the engine cowl to a Ness foer another grand or so, install that great idea that Razor had plumbing a filter to compensate for compressor noise, modify the gear case so i dont get water in it, and use 93 octain gas vs 83, and more 2 cycle oil with a 2 year warranty, now really if we were smart which would we choose....

**2.5-21** · 07-26-2015, 12:15 PM

Congrats, I saw the boat the other day....
Looks real nice you sure you want to get salt on it? LOL!
Do you plan to weigh it before you put a motor on it? Gershow in lindenhurst has a drive on scale Just weigh the whole thing then bring the trailer without the boat.
The weight might answer a lot of peoples questions.