Quote Originally Posted by espen View Post
Amazing accomplishment and I am so impressed with the result compared to the cost and complication involved. KISS keep it simple stupid, this is a encouragement that its possible to create a wild ride without any high dollar fancy names equipment, a Yamaha V4 and a 13 foot cat. And 97mph !!!...Idont care realy if its 100 or 97. dont go wild and start pooring lots of dollars into the rig just to get the few more mph, it takes away the beauty of the project.
If it starts to be to complicated then your beaten by the 260 20 foot cat bunch. Only thing I would considerate is to do like we used to do with the 260 Yamahas for offshore, drill 6 big holes in the front of the cowling and cover it with a plate with some distance tubes to stop the engine from sucking in watermist from the low pressure behind the engine. Because its almost free mod.

My current cowl has a vent in the front you can see in the pics if you look close. I just picked up another cowl for project. I am going to cut the sides, top, front, and back out of it making just a frame then fill in with carbon panels. Shouldnt be too complicated or expensive.