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Boating with Big Red on LKN

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SCT

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Well, I got a call to go prop testing on Lake Norman today with the infamous Big Red!
It was a little windy and cold but we made several good passes for some GPS #s on a borrowed labbed 28' Bravo. I won't mention any #s but his boat runs strong and Jayme can actually drive a boat. I've got to say his 242 has got to be the cleanest origional 94 out there....bar none. The dude is beyond anal!

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BigRed wearing his Checkmate hat w/ pride-
 

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i like the " no gps #'s"!!!!! it makes me think:devil: is it another-

"blown milk check"??????????? hmmmm:surf:
 
We stopped by Kasey Kahne's house for a BUD but he wasn't home (at least for us).
 

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The boat is really a 96 I told SCT 94 to see if he really was up to date on Checkmates
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. The 242 I believe was introduced in 96 and I am 90% sure the one I own was the first one off the line sold by Kunkel's Marine.

The best thing about the day was we had the lake to our selves. I tried a new Merc.Racing factory labbed 28p prop. that came factory on a 26 foot 600SC Baja.

The boat did some funky crap first at cruising maybe at 2800 rpms no trim it leaned very bad to the left SCT had to get in the back. Once we got that figured out around 3500 rpms the prop was blowing out bad. Around 4000rpms maybe 1" of trim was the best the prop felt.

We put are life jackets on and life line and decided to hammer. 5100 rpms 1/4 trim the boat felt like we were running across a frozen lake with no control then the prop would blow out and kick the back of the boat out.

We put a new meaning to chine walk today. This prop was designed to lift a baja if I gave my boat full trim today it would have flipped over backwards.

Best speed today with the 28p baja prop was 76.1 at 5100 with the prop blowing out and chine walk from H E L L my boat is good for 5800-6000 rpms. Its just amazing what a worked prop can do to a boat.

It was fun and we did get some beers in after testing and could not find no boats to pick on.
 
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