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absolutely checkmate
11-04-2005, 12:01 PM
good morning mates,
My name is Robert Gendreau and i am new to the group, and the very very proud new owner of an 88 281 maxum. her name is absolutely and we reside in Rochester N.Y. She has a built 454 mag pushing a minimum of 550 horses. Never had her dynoed. She has a forged crank, 9-1 compression pistons, stainless marine 4 inch wet exhaust hedder system, merlin heads, crain cam, eldebrock intake, holly carb and lots of other internals that give her a heart of gold. All these ponys feed a bravo 1 with a stainless mirage 23 pitch prop that has been worked. I will be changing out all the old junk vdo gages cause they bounce around too much to be accurate, and I dont have a gps speedo yet so im not sure what my top end is. I have been clocked at 68 mph buy some joker in a baja who has a gps and i was only turning 46 hundred on the tack. "He couldn't go any faster, HE HE HE!". Absolutly is cammed and aspirated to turn 55 hundred max, so I figuring that she should top out around or slightly under 80 mph. Me hopes and prays. I only have 30 hours on her since we built the engine so i havent taken her up past 5 grand yet. I am a little bored with the gellcote scheme so i think that shes going to get some new makeup this winter. Oh and by the way, I work part time running a boat repair shop at Eagle Creek Marina in Kendal N.Y. this is going to be the primer boating facility on the south shore of Lake Ontario. 2.3 mill has been invested to bring the place up to snuff. You guys, to include you Canadians, should check the place out next summer when it is finished. http://www.eaglecreekmarina.com. I didnt make it to Toronto this year because of all the work thats been going on, but Toronto is usually a 2xer weekend per season, and various poker runs. I would like to ask if anyone else in the group is from the Rochester area. If so you can contact me on aol im "fisherking101".
so heres some pitchers of ABSOLUTELY in Irondequoit Bay.

C:\Documents and Settings\rdg428\Desktop

jgreen
11-04-2005, 12:38 PM
http://checkmate-boats.com/graemlins/welcome.gif

Welcome to the board and our obsession! http://www.checkmate-boats.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

175checkmate
11-04-2005, 01:02 PM
Welcome to the board. Sounds like a killer motor in a great boat.

absolutely checkmate
11-04-2005, 01:05 PM
well thank you. and im having a little troble uploading the pic's of my boat. they need to put a brouser with the url request box because i dont know what the url is to the pic's on my desktop. ill have pitchers soon.

Rob'Z
11-04-2005, 01:12 PM
Welcome from a fellow newbie.


To post pics here you must have them hosted somewhere else on the internet. http://www.photobucket.com is a great place to do this, free and simple. Then you just copy the url to your image and paste it between the image tags whatevertheurlis (with no spaces) in your post. Let me know if you need help.

absolutely checkmate
11-04-2005, 02:50 PM
ok but where do i get the url info from i uploaded 3 pic's to that site but now i cant seem to figure out what the url is? can you help?

absolutely checkmate
11-04-2005, 02:55 PM
lets see if this works.

http//photobucket.com/albums/d133/fisherking101/th_be34dfb5.jpg

absolutely checkmate
11-04-2005, 02:57 PM
man i hate computers nothing ever works worth a crap. ill try this one more time then im putting a bullit in to this pice of ibm garbage

http://photobucket.com/albums/d133/fisherking101/th_be34dfb5.jpg

absolutely checkmate
11-04-2005, 03:00 PM
works one time and not the next gata love modern tech.


http://photobucket.com/albums/d133/fisherking101/th_SITENINTHECHANNEL.jpg

bdusted440
11-05-2005, 09:14 PM
http://checkmate-boats.com/graemlins/welcome.gif Nice ride. http://www.checkmate-boats.com/graemlins/thumb.gif

F150GT
11-06-2005, 10:08 AM
Hey Absolutly
I live in Rochester and run at the Bay allot, Ive seen your boat, Didnt know it had such power. We were at the bay yesturday getting in possibly last speed runs of the season. The weather was beutiful. We'll look for you next year.
F150GT

absolutely checkmate
11-07-2005, 09:42 AM
cool, i was out saterday too. past bradacks bay to the west though, eagle creek. I usaly keep her in the driveway in irondiquoit but its storage time again so shes out at the marina. i had to take her out the urge was to strong, the water was like glass saterday, but i have a charging problem now so she wasn't running well wanted to stall cause the spark was running the battery dead. probably needs a new altanator. we'll take care of that this winter when i yank the motor. so where are you at in roch cha cha? think will have one more day of getin wet? im up on aol im usaly monday till friday 8am to 4 pm. drop me a line im fisherking101. what boat do you have? is it the convinsor with the blower stiken out of the back?? ive see it but i dont really know too many people in the area. nice to here from you and maybe we can get together over the winter for a few beers? and talk boats. if you need any work done i have a shop and love to tinker. ether way let me know something. l8er mate!

wickedrister
04-15-2006, 02:51 AM
Nice boat and welcome to the board:thumb: