Good Tuesday Morning

[jordy]

Is that your boat?


CH3N02

One of my old ones. 30' Spectre with a pair of 300X's on the back. Had a whole lotta fun in that thing.

[Stainless]

One of my old ones. 30' Spectre with a pair of 300X's on the back. Had a whole lotta fun in that thing.

I wanted a pair of X's the year they quit making them, everybody reserved the entire production and dealers were asking and getting over MSRP. The immediate replacement was 250XS so I bought a pair '05's to replace the blown up Bridgeports. It's rumored(S&F) that the '05 and '06 were 275HP. When the 300XS came out it was very close to actual 300 HP and Mercury destuned the '07-current 250's to more differentiate it from the 300.
Anyway, may or may not be fact, but posted for conversation purposes.


CH3N02

[jordy]

I wanted a pair of X's the year they quit making them, everybody reserved the entire production and dealers were asking and getting over MSRP. The immediate replacement was 250XS so I bought a pair '05's to replace the blown up Bridgeports. It's rumored(S&F) that the '05 and '06 were 275HP. When the 300XS came out it was very close to actual 300 HP and Mercury destuned the '07-current 250's to more differentiate it from the 300.
Anyway, may or may not be fact, but posted for conversation purposes.


CH3N02

It was on the internet so it must be true! Mine was an '02 and those had been mildly worked over. Was spinning 4 blade 32 Merc humpback cleavers and would run them out. Boat was tuned at Lake X and setup to run. Best I ever saw was in the mid one teens. Would run out around 105 on Pleasant every day of the week, regardless of time of year. It was a really fun boat, just not much in the way of function to it.