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Ytmsn wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 3:10 pm
I would like to have a crack at backing that bad boy with a single screw into a slip!
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If anyone can do it, it would certainly be you YT!
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Thanks A7! Just thinking, my boat is 26.8 without the swimdeck. My slip is 30 ft long, and although I have never measured it, when I back in and put the swim deck against the head pier, there's not much slip left at the bow, maybe 8 inches? If the A29 is 29 ft LOA there shouldn't be that much difference other than the width. Easy Peasy
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liquid wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:26 am
Feel like 26 is a little short for twins... 29 borderline... 30 for sure...
Blue engine in it??? Hmmm.
I'm with A7 on the thrusters. I would love to engage thrusters.
Thrusters are cool as watching the big yachts park is fun.
We could add a fish & ski package to the A29? Trolling motor on the bow? Push button on the dash marked “ Bow damage prevention thruster “.
Yep I’m on unsweetened ice tea today!
Oh and remember when Cobalt was fearless about power in 29 and shorter?
Cobalt 269 (twin BB)
282 (twin BB)
A pair of 240s would still allow the side entry low floor.
SeaRay would drop twin 4.3s in that baby in a second. They did that all the time.
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only offering a single on the A29 kinda locks them into inland lake customers, not a great decision IMO. No way I'd go on the Great Lakes or Ocean/Gulf in a 29' boat with a single screw...
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akorcovelos wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:18 am
only offering a single on the A29 kinda locks them into inland lake customers, not a great decision IMO. No way I'd go on the Great Lakes or Ocean/Gulf in a 29' boat with a single screw...
I'm guessing Cobalt is focusing their SC line on Ocean/Gulf boaters. Because those are outboards. I know if I was a salt water boater I would have outboards for sure. Still that being said the 30SC is the largest they go while Formula and all the other Manufactures offer larger boats with outboards. Maybe Cobalt doesn't do well in this market? I can't comment since it is not an area of my concern.
liquid wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:26 am
Feel like 26 is a little short for twins... 29 borderline... 30 for sure...
Blue engine in it??? Hmmm.
I'm with A7 on the thrusters. I would love to engage thrusters.
Thrusters are cool as watching the big yachts park is fun.
We could add a fish & ski package to the A29? Trolling motor on the bow? Push button on the dash marked “ Bow damage prevention thruster “.
Yep I’m on unsweetened ice tea today!
Oh and remember when Cobalt was fearless about power in 29 and shorter?
Cobalt 269 (twin BB)
282 (twin BB)
A pair of 240s would still allow the side entry low floor.
Obviously a trolling motor counts as a second screw.
liquid wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:26 am
Feel like 26 is a little short for twins... 29 borderline... 30 for sure...
Blue engine in it??? Hmmm.
I'm with A7 on the thrusters. I would love to engage thrusters.
Thrusters are cool as watching the big yachts park is fun.
We could add a fish & ski package to the A29? Trolling motor on the bow? Push button on the dash marked “ Bow damage prevention thruster “.
Yep I’m on unsweetened ice tea today!
Oh and remember when Cobalt was fearless about power in 29 and shorter?
Cobalt 269 (twin BB)
282 (twin BB)
A pair of 240s would still allow the side entry low floor.
Obviously a trolling motor counts as a second screw.
I thought a 240 was a trolling motor. Didn't Volvo sub-contract Minn-Kota to build it?
1996 252 Whipple tuned 454 Magnum MPI, 496 exhaust, Corsa Captains Call, B3 w/Simrek drive shower.
‘Direct Deposit Too’
Antioch, IL
Fox Chain O' Lakes
liquid wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:26 am
Feel like 26 is a little short for twins... 29 borderline... 30 for sure...
Blue engine in it??? Hmmm.
I'm with A7 on the thrusters. I would love to engage thrusters.
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So true liquid.
FWIW, bow thrusters seem to have been around for awhile now and are fairly mainstream on anything bigger than 29'. I'm surprised it hasn't filtered down to some of the smaller offerings being that it is not as cost prohibitive as it used to be.
Here’s some fun eye candy that came out today. I always enjoy the Haulover vids. This one predominantly features go-fast types going thru the inlet. In most cases, the bow thrusters can be seen peeking out underneath.
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