First time I've ever photographed a lower unit like this...

[Scream And Fly]

Well I've taken literally hundreds of thousands of photographs of fast boats, but I don't think I've ever quite seen a lower unit at this vantage point. If you look closely, it appears that only the skeg is actually in the water.

This is Chris Cromley - Mr.Demeanor on the boards here, at the River Ranch.

I have many more photos of this boat at this angle and actually better but I am on my small laptop here and its screen is not color-calibrated so I need to wait until I'm home to begin posting images, which will be later tonight.

[oldschoolltv]

Wow you now see why he has a transom mounted water pick up. Great shot.

[dagodiver]

Fantastic.!!!

[Scream And Fly]

This everyone

This one was shot at 200mm and 1/4000 sec, so you can actually see the propeller blades. You can tell the shutter speed was very high because of all of those water droplets that almost make it appear that he's going much slower than he actually was. We had no sun for this photo though, so I had to shoot it at very high ISO and F/3.2 to get that shutter speed.

[ChrisM]

What hull is that, Hydrostream/Skater??

[Scream And Fly]

What hull is that, Hydrostream/Skater??

That is a Biel tunnel, which is a very unique boat. I think Chris might be the only member on S&F that owns one.

[oldschoolltv]

What hull is that, Hydrostream/Skater??

It is a 97 mph 13 foot Biel tunnel. He is shooting to hit 100.

[texasvector]

This photo belongs on the "on the pad" thread....NO PAD NEEDED

[Bodhi]

This boat is awsome to to watch go, Chris also had a great idea hooking a seawater strainer to the transom pickup.....no s*** getting up in that yami !!

[Mr. Demeanor]

Thanks so much for the pics Greg. I have been wanting some tunnel shots for a long time and these are amazing.

The boat is actually pretty "wet" in these pics. It was too windy for high speed passes to I was going by in the 70's.

[Mr. Demeanor]

This photo belongs on the "on the pad" thread....NO PAD NEEDED

I have two pads. Im sure someone will take that comment and run with it LOL

[Mr. Demeanor]

It is a 97 mph 13 foot Biel tunnel. He is shooting to hit 100.

It was too windy for the big prop this weekend. It did go faster with the little prop than it has ever ran before at 93 mph and change in a quick burst so I have no doubt it will crack 100. The weather and schedules just haven't aligned.

[Bodhi]

13'......100mph.......that's one hell of a good time right there!!

[Scream And Fly]

Thank you Chris - I shoot all my photos in RAW format in the camera with a flat color profile, so they need color correcting on a calibrated monitor to really make them look proper. I can only do that on my home workstation. I'll get to work on them later tonight or tomorrow. I actually have many shots of you. I appreciate you making all those cool passes! You definitely understood the angles I needed to get these shots. And yes, it was definitely too windy to go very fast but regardless you definitely had it running great. We had some pretty high gusts at times.

Thanks again Chris, that was a lot of fun!

Greg

[texasvector]

I wish I could measure my prop shaft height like u...seems to be alot funner....F all this 6 ft level crawling on the ground crap