Yeah I thought rear main seal too
We will need a new trailer if I do this, the one we have now has rollers all the way up the keel, that's never gonna work. Although apparently I might not even need tracking fins.
I thought I/Os produced soft wakes and V drives were the business haha. At least that's about all I see on here.
So far just about everyone has made a fairly discouraging albeit accurate statements (not a bad thing) which has got me thinking. Double the budget is probably what we paid for the boat in the first place, not to mention all the replacement parts and hours we've put into it already. I wouldn't be surprised if this boat has had $50k spent on it during it's life.
While it would be an awesome thing to do it would also be terribly expensive and time consuming for not much gain. Maybe I should just sit on this boat, ride it and then get something purpose built in the future... it really does have a good wake as it is, but it is a work horse not a show pony that's for sure. I don't think I will have the time or the money to throw at it to make it the latter.
I'm gonna have to weigh up the difference between getting everything fixed as it is now versus changing everything over to a full inboard. I like that with a V drive I can surf too, I think she would throw a pretty sweet surf wake, so it would add some versatility. That being said I'm spoiled for choice here a couple of mates surfed both coasts in a day last week just to say they'd done it so I can surf regardless.
Thanks again for all the posts whether encouraging or discouraging it's all good informative stuff so much appreciated.
(Message edited by jtnz on February 11, 2009)