She planes!!

[Pascal]

Finally got the boat out of the yard today... launched yesterday, finalized a number of things,waited for the Cummins mech to come and check things over then brought her home... hour long run mostly at 9kts but ran her up on plane for a few minutes. First time she planes in almost 50 years. Didn't push to WOT but did 17kts on for a couple of minutes at 2250 (engines are rated 2600)

Have a few things to finalize and tweak... will do a proper sea trial with the mechanic in a couple of weeks

[SEVEN]

Congratulations 🎈🍾🎊

[Finalee]

Man thats pretty good for the first run.

[johnjen50]

Wow! Tell me that didn’t feel just awesome!!! Smooth too? That’s great. Glad it went well Pascal.

[Pascal]

thanks guys... it wasn't an easy process and I still have another year of work

Here are clips of the launch and run home... phone on the helm shows speed in knot

https://instagram.com/p/Bi0dL44D1Bc/

[Avenger]

Very nice. Congratulations. I think we need more video of her underway.

[SKYCHENEY]

Impressive. What were your tank levels?

[Pascal]

Half fuel, 3/4 water, 3/4 holding. And a lot of stuff on board... lots of parts, wood, lumber, tools...

Too early to get final numbers but encouraging

[Briankinley2004]

Awesome!

[SKYCHENEY]

And the stabilizers; how were the stabilizers? Probably no seas, but maybe you crossed a wake or two.