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Join Date: Oct 2007
09-30-2010, 5:54 PM
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Does anyone know anything about the hydrodyne v-drives? Any opinions?
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Join Date: Apr 2002
09-30-2010, 6:42 PM
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What year? I don't recall any in the 90s. Anything in the last 10 yrs or so is a rebadged Calabria.
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Join Date: Oct 2007
09-30-2010, 6:58 PM
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I think 1998
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Join Date: Jun 2003
09-30-2010, 8:08 PM
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NADA doesn't even show that Hydrodyne made boats from 1997 to 2000. 96 and earlier they only made 2 models I think. A direct drive open bow and direct drive closed bow. From 01 to 03 they were rebadged Calabria's. If it is an 01 it would be the same boat as a Calabria Pro V.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
09-30-2010, 8:13 PM
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Some research found me this boat. I have never heard of or seen one.
http://boats.iboats.com/97-hydrodyne...rs/684170.html
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Join Date: Apr 2002
09-30-2010, 9:39 PM
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Yea, what Brett said.....
Wild lookin v-drive. I've never seen or heard of it myself. 1997, they were pretty cutting edge for the day.
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Join Date: Oct 2007
10-01-2010, 4:22 AM
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That's the one I saw. Had never seen anything like it before.
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Join Date: Sep 2006
10-01-2010, 7:24 AM
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I remember seeing a Hydrodyne V drive at one of the West Coast Boat shows in January of 07....if I recall, the company stopped production towards the end of 06, so there must have been very few of those V drives built.
That being said, the mid 90's Dynes were well built, hi quality boats. They used good materials, PCM power, and were marketed as "luxury" ski boats.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
10-01-2010, 7:43 AM
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By 07, Bob J of Calabria owned the Hydrodyne name & the old molds to the 90s boats. Actually by about 00 or 01. Hence the fact they were using the same molds & ideas in both Calabria & Hydrodyne. But he just didn't have the cash flow for 2 squandering companies.
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Join Date: Feb 2008
10-02-2010, 8:19 PM
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Well you gotta like the GT-40....
After that this one screams TEST DRIVE could be a slalom hull made to look like a family I/O
Could be the unsung v-drive version of the nautique 2001 or a masteraft 206 clone.
only one way to find out.
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Join Date: Sep 2006
10-03-2010, 7:17 AM
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Originally Posted by meathead65
I remember seeing a Hydrodyne V drive at one of the West Coast Boat shows in January of 07....if I recall, the company stopped production towards the end of 06, so there must have been very few of those V drives built.
That being said, the mid 90's Dynes were well built, hi quality boats. They used good materials, PCM power, and were marketed as "luxury" ski boats.
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Sorry...i just realized I was off by a decade...I meant to say 1997 shows where I saw a Dyne V Drive....and that the original Hydrodyne stopped building in late 1996, if I recall.
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Join Date: Oct 2007
10-03-2010, 8:28 AM
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Size is going to be difficult to determine on this thing given the molded swim platform.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
10-03-2010, 10:48 AM
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Nothing difficult about it. It's a 22'6" boat. But 2' of that is the swimstep. So it's going to be more like the interior of a 20' boat with a bolt on swimstep.
Dash is nice. Not sure I care for the twin capt seats though. Maybe if their both on swivels.
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Join Date: Jan 2009
10-03-2010, 12:59 PM
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That thing looks like a turd.
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Join Date: Sep 2006
10-03-2010, 2:14 PM
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I'd be curious to know how it runs....20 foot V Drive running surface, what appears to be a middle of the road amount of deadrise, full size trim tabs stock.
With a GT 40 in a 20 foot running surface, I doubt it's a slug.
In other ads, I can count a couple tracking fins, so it might handle quite well if you remember it's only 20.5 or so feet in the water.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
10-03-2010, 4:39 PM
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There's one at my lake, only used by the family for recreation. They are build like tanks, very high quality boats.
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Join Date: Oct 2007
03-30-2011, 5:31 AM
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Your boat is the one I was posting about last fall! Looks nice.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
03-30-2011, 7:03 AM
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Beware - Hours on this boat have been rolled. Must think we are all stupid. He is trolling on wakeboarder trying to unload this too - as rider9999
Read post history from rider999 on wakeboarder.com
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Originally Posted by rider9999
I have a 97 Hydrodyne Nexstar V-drive. It has the PCM Pro-Boss Gt-40 351 motor.
Puts out a nice wake for skiing or wakeboarding depending on the position of the hydraulic trim tabs. I bought the boat used for 21,500 w/ 300 hrs on it in 2006. It now has over 700 hrs on it and runs great. EFI really makes it nice. :mrgreen:
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