- Location
- Lake Orion, Michigan
Overall, the weekend ending up being successful.
The maiden voyage was Saturday but only rode a half tank of fuel. Run into a few issues and wanted to address a few things... main thing being the battery location. Lucas was right... what a nightmare. I made another battery box really quick and glued it in. I have included a few pictures below of my "process" / how I cut the pattern on the Carbon as I know a few people have asked. It takes me about a half hour to lay one up, then put in the oven on "warm" for 2 hours. It is then ready to scuff and glue to the hull. I ended up moving the battery to right in front of the waterbox. Perfect location really. I also noticed where some items hoses / lines were rubbing, so I either rerouted them or put some sort of "protection" on them.
Reassembled everything Monday morning and hit the water all afternoon / evening. What a fantastic day on the water! 90 degree day and sunny. Our lake warmed up FAST! It was choppy as hell because of the holiday weekend (boat traffic) but we found a secluded bay that was flat. Unfortunately, it was a spot where my girlfriend could not get to take any pics or video :nono: Ski ran great after tickling the hi jets and flow control valve to dry out the pipe. Hoping to get back out in a couple days when it has calmed down close to shore and get some good shots / video. This thing FLYS through the air. The height is crazy (to me). Can't wait to see how it looks on pics or video.
The hull setup is perfect with the footholds set as far forward as they are. Even though it is about 5" shorter then my last Superfreak hull, the handling is damn near the same. Though on landings the nose does come up VERY fast. Just have to be quick to pull yourself up and get weight over the front end. I am weighing in at 175 LBS. Anyone much heavier then me - this is NOT the ski for them.
Also, for those that are curious, I am running a Ballistic 12 cell battery. Has NOT skipped a beat so far. Ran 6 gallons of fuel through it Monday, with a LOT of starts/stops and not one issue (tweaking the carbs, going out, riding a few minutes, bring it back and, tweak some more, etc...). Took 65 minutes to do a "balance" charge" when I brought it in.
Anyway, a couple pics:
The maiden voyage was Saturday but only rode a half tank of fuel. Run into a few issues and wanted to address a few things... main thing being the battery location. Lucas was right... what a nightmare. I made another battery box really quick and glued it in. I have included a few pictures below of my "process" / how I cut the pattern on the Carbon as I know a few people have asked. It takes me about a half hour to lay one up, then put in the oven on "warm" for 2 hours. It is then ready to scuff and glue to the hull. I ended up moving the battery to right in front of the waterbox. Perfect location really. I also noticed where some items hoses / lines were rubbing, so I either rerouted them or put some sort of "protection" on them.
Reassembled everything Monday morning and hit the water all afternoon / evening. What a fantastic day on the water! 90 degree day and sunny. Our lake warmed up FAST! It was choppy as hell because of the holiday weekend (boat traffic) but we found a secluded bay that was flat. Unfortunately, it was a spot where my girlfriend could not get to take any pics or video :nono: Ski ran great after tickling the hi jets and flow control valve to dry out the pipe. Hoping to get back out in a couple days when it has calmed down close to shore and get some good shots / video. This thing FLYS through the air. The height is crazy (to me). Can't wait to see how it looks on pics or video.
The hull setup is perfect with the footholds set as far forward as they are. Even though it is about 5" shorter then my last Superfreak hull, the handling is damn near the same. Though on landings the nose does come up VERY fast. Just have to be quick to pull yourself up and get weight over the front end. I am weighing in at 175 LBS. Anyone much heavier then me - this is NOT the ski for them.
Also, for those that are curious, I am running a Ballistic 12 cell battery. Has NOT skipped a beat so far. Ran 6 gallons of fuel through it Monday, with a LOT of starts/stops and not one issue (tweaking the carbs, going out, riding a few minutes, bring it back and, tweak some more, etc...). Took 65 minutes to do a "balance" charge" when I brought it in.
Anyway, a couple pics:
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