XPR Roadrunner's 40+mph Hydroplane Boat!

so ya, this boat has been in the family for a very long time (before I was even born). My dad scored it off of some guy for a meesly $1.5k in the 80's and then he bought a 25hp Mercury outboard to put on the back of this thing. It goes like stink I tell ya! On choppy water we can't even go full throttle because it starts wind-chiming over the water. We keep saying we will buy some keels for it, but it just hasn't happend. I'd like to get a bigger motor on the back of it cuz it still doesn't go fast enough to get the tail out of the water like it's designed to do.

but hey, it's fun as hell! Single seater, but you can have one other person sit shotgun in the back infront of the gas tank. It has wire steering and an electric kill switch (which used to also start the engine, but that broke, so we have to start the motor the olde fashioned way lol).

Did I also mention it has a huge Maple Leaf on the front

Nice lil fishin' boat ya got there

But honestly, that's still pretty freakin cool!

we had thoughts of going nuts with it. but it's made of Fibreglass so modifying the body would be pretty hard. It'd be easier to build another one from scratch. Pretty much 1/4 - 3/4" steel keels on the hull would be sufficient enough to make it stable and actually make it turn better. The steering is cable steering so there is a lot of play in it and very hard to turn, so if we go with a bigger motor, we would ultimatly need to upgrade to electronic or hydroulic steering.