Re: Gray Shark

Tom, my best guess is that you have not enough pitch in your prop. Look
for one with a 20 inch pitch. I have one, and can get about 36 mph out of
it. My brother, who has owned several of these boats in the past, told me
that there were props with a 22 inch pitch, and this is the 40 mph prop,
but I've been unable to find one anywhere.

Anyway, this is almost surely your problem. Go to a shop that has been
around awhile where somebody will remember these boats and who deals in
Michigan Wheel props. They can find it for you in the book.

At 06:07 PM 7/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Can anyone tell me how these people are getting 40 mph out of their 16'
>Sportsman 155. The best I have been able to do is 29 mph with 2 people in
>the boat, turning 4200 rpm.
>
>Tom Bakko
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Frenn" <semsc@...>
>To: <omc-boats@...>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:02 AM
>Subject: Re: Gray Shark
>
>
> > WHEW! Thanks, Phil.
> >
> > I'm hoping to get my "lady" into the gallery, but not before it's running.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Phil Budne" <phil@...>
> > To: <omc-boats@...>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 9:25 AM
> > Subject: Re: Gray Shark
> >
> >
> > > > From: "Michael Frenn" <semsc@...>
> > > > Subject: Gray Shark
> > > > Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:45:10 -0700
> > > >
> > > > Hey, Phil:
> > > >
> > > > I know the Gray Shark is supposed to be in the Gallery. I can't find
> > it.
> > > > Did you take it down? What is the gallery category? Sorry to be such
>a
> > > > barnacle!
> > > >
> > > > Michael Frenn
> > >
> > > I just fixed the problem a few minutes ago! I had long wanted to
> > > split up the photo gallery, and I did it this weekend, dividing the
> > > boats up by model; I created a seperate page for Sweet 16's, but left
> > > it out of the index!
> > >
> > > I just decided to move the "gallery index" up to the main page, but I
> > > haven't yet fixed the "back to" links on the individual gallerys...
> > >
> > > I've always to create a database which listed all the boats on the
> > > gallery and for sale pages, so you could do a search, but that hasn't
> > > happened yet, so I figured some reorganization was better than none,
> > > the page was getting very long.
> > >
> > > Recent additions (in the last month or so), by age;
> > >
> > > Bob Hughes' 1966 Playmate
> > > Bill Green's 1968 Sportsman 120 (lost on a Kentucky Mtn in 1998)
> > > Gregory Fell's 1969 Sportsman 155
> > > Jim Medore's 1969 Sportsman 120
> > >
> > > When I got your mail, I was in the process of updating the links on
> > > the main page, I had just gotten to the "engines section", which ties
> > > into something I've been wondering about; Are there any good places
> > > for people to post engine-related questions?
> > >
> > > A gem I recently found is VMSL.COM (Vintage Marine Sales Literature);
> > > they sell old brochures and manuals. The full (non Chris-Craft) list
> > > I downloaded showed a number of manuals for Evinrude boats, as well as
> > > some literature for the Gull-Wings made by Chris-Craft from the old
> > > OMC molds!
> > >
> > > Since traffic on the list has picked up, and I recall at least one
> > > person asking if they could get the list in "digest" form (multiple
> > > messages bundled into a single mailing). If there's interest, I'm
> > > willing to look into it (rather than lose anyone due to the annoyance
> > > of receiving lots of messages).
> > >
> > > The main omc-boats web page counter is now over 47,000 page views!
> > >
> >
Received on Thursday, 26 July 2001