Rebuild/Repower 32' Topaz

[Greg S]

Greg - can you give us an update? How does she run? More importantly, how does she fish? Any pics or videos?

She's running, and fishing, we raised sails on the 1st trip...This week new props and mod's to turbo and aftercooler connection, we can make 50/55 psi boost......after this next prop change we should make a video, Thanks Greg

[Greg S]

On our Sunday fishing trip, we cruised @ 35 knots with a fuel burn between 48~50 gph......With a 40 knot cruise we are pulling less than 60% load on the engines. We were running 23 x 27.5 pitch props. This week we are changing the pitch to 31" with a full cup hopefully this will give us a little better fuel burn, and bump speed up 6~7 knots..At this point we are doing alot of engine testing. ( we are turning the shafts over 2000 rpm )
Also we have installed Raymarine E series gps's, touch screens, they are a nice piece. We also had custom made out riggers built....They turned out very well.....Remember cruising between 35~40 knots puts more load on everything in and on the boat......
This small Topaz rides very well in 3~5's @ 35 knos, the nose is high and the ride is dry...( nice surprise )

Thanks Greg Slayton

[teddyp]

How are you guys going to fix the problem with the boat sitting 3-4 inches lower in the water? Man she looks like she sinking in one of the pics. No malice here I'm just curious.

[sclancy]

which picture? the one above at dock looks fine...

How are you guys going to fix the problem with the boat sitting 3-4 inches lower in the water? Man she looks like she sinking in one of the pics. No malice here I'm just curious.

[teddyp]

which picture? the one above at dock looks fine...

3rd picture. Maybe I'm wrong but it looks a low in the water. Greg said it was riding low so I don't want to make this about the picture. I'm just currious what they wil do. I know there was a little Merrit a ways back that got monster engines put into it and they had to do all kinds of Chin work on the hull to get her to sit right. I was just curious.

[Greg S]

...We had to put swing check valves in several drain lines, the mufflers have less than 30 inches of back pressure so they are fine. At 9 knots the boat starts to get lift. So everything seems to be working out...Thanks Greg

[teddyp]

...We had to put swing check valves in several drain lines, the mufflers have less than 30 inches of back pressure so they are fine. At 9 knots the boat starts to get lift. So everything seems to be working out...Thanks Greg

Thats good news. Thanks for the answer. I hope that everything works out well for you on this project.