Tuff Boat on Long Island

[Dirk Pitt]

Interesting!!! So no front or rear seats and no rigging what so ever?

no its rigged minus motor

[Dirk Pitt]

So its heavier than a certain 25 year old superboat?!!!!

yep.......

[AZMIDLYF]

Must be that thick gelcoat. Lol

[Dirk Pitt]

Must be that thick gelcoat. Lol

yep a standard layup boat tuff said it weighed 1100lbs which makes sence, my guess is Im going to start with a 30 4 blade et i say it goes 85 out of the box

[Dirk Pitt]

id love to weigh a regular superboat and see interesting I really dont know anyone thtats actually weighed any of the local ones or even a progression, but the totally rigged number is the important weight i will do that once I get it on the davit
than anyone can pull up to my dock and we can weigh them too, no more bs numbers

[XstreamVking]

Pics of the scale and boat while weighing it?

[dnelson964]

weighed boat 946 lbs, we think the boat weighs less because of all carbon viber we found in the boat, but lets use 1000lbs as the bench mark,Mcknight remembers Tuff telling him around 1100lbs which would make sense with the interior in, ok tommorow we hang the WHITE motor once the boat is totally rigged I will weigh it, i think that is the most important weight anyway, just to do it Im going to weigh the motor seperatly

1100lbs with interior is very impressive ! Considering also it is a fully 'cored', strong and "tough" boat. Not just made light and left weak anywhere. U will be maybe 1900lbs motor rigged, interior and sitting in water before you step aboard !

[TooStroked]

I weighed my old 1991 22 progression ready to run no fuel 2180 no back seat man your new tuff is really light . my rear seat was 80 pounds I drained fuel out mabe 1 gallon left in it .

you have battery oil ect in it ready to run?
if so your looking at 1600 to 1650 ready no fuel

regular super boat is 2100 plus big differance from 2015 would be nice to see what superboat said the new ones weigh

Of course it's important to note that your old Progression 22 was not vacuum bagged. (Mine was the very first vacuum bagged 22 according to Jane.) That's why most of the weight figures you see here on Progression 22's are less than yours.

[baja200merk]

my guess is Im going to start with a 30 4 blade et i say it goes 85 out of the box

Every one of these guys that run a 30 have 1.75 gear and a more hydrodynamic case then the m2. With the side water screens open the case has to be almost 2" below which makes driving at speed interesting and slip high. I think the 30" will be good for pulling your buddies boats home on plane

[Dirk Pitt]

Pics of the scale and boat while weighing it?

i really didnt think of doing that, I was more concerned about the lifting straps failing, when you change the angle of the strapes, the load changes drastically, it was kinda a make shift lift and the strapes were on a severe angle, and they werent happy about it, but I wasnt alone.........but I ll try and do it again, but in the future Ill take pics, really the next time i planned on weighing it was on the davit completly rigged ready to run, I still think thats the most important weight, but its in line with what Tuff said it weighed 950 plus 135 for the interior just about 1100 lbs nothing special there as far as Tuff weights, it weighs what it weighs and the speed is the speed its going to go, if its 85, 90 so be it, but at least ill be boating for 5 years and not digging into my pocket,

[Dirk Pitt]

Every one of these guys that run a 30 have 1.75 gear and a more hydrodynamic case then the m2. With the side water screens open the case has to be almost 2" below which makes driving at speed interesting and slip high. I think the 30" will be good for pulling your buddies boats home on plane

theres more than one way to introduce water to the block, im not concerned about that when i reach that point ill address it, but dosent the case have holes in the nose in addition to the side screens? I just want to get it in the water and get a base line, I have to start some place, we will sort it out in time, getting props is the easy part,

[baja200merk]

Yes but we have never been able to get it to cool properly with the screens out of the water. You can block them all together and move it up.

[Dirk Pitt]

Yes but we have never been able to get it to cool properly with the screens out of the water. You can block them all together and move it up.

thats what I was thinking but I havent even seen it yet the motor is still in the shipping create

[DoktorC]

That answer might show more business practices of your favorite boat builder!

Sure did...

[Mitchie]

So its heavier than a certain 25 year old superboat?!!!!

Ya! With thick ass core.... throughout.