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Hauled 10,000 lbs
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PICSSSSSSSSSSSSSSavalonandl said:
sounds like nice boat
Congrats...isn't it a great feeling. I can pull my 8000# TT all day. Sometimes I forget it is back there.
Nice boat. Bet it looked great behind the Av too!
awesome boat, you must have turned a lot of heads
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Old design, way ahead of it's time. Now is made by American Offshore who bought the molds from Chris Craft.
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Chris Craft is a classic boat.
Love the old wooden day cruisers...
or little runabouts made from wood
Love the old wooden day cruisers...
or little runabouts made from wood
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Chris Cat is the model.
Chris Craft is still made today, but the wooden boats are now memories.
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Chris Craft is still made today, but the wooden boats are now memories.
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Nice! 
Sweet boat
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Thanks for the compliments.
The title of the thread should be hauled 11,000 lbs. The boat weighs 8500 and the trailer 2500.
Either way the Avy does a great job, gets about 8-9 mpg hauling the boat. A diesel upgrade on a pickup will cost $ 6,000. The differnce in hauling is about $ 136 per thousand miles (15 mpg- diesel vs 8.5 mpg gas- $ diesel .25 more per gallon). That means I would have to haul that boat 44,000 miles to get even with the investment cost of a diesel. Now I do not want to turn this into a diesel bashing thread. It's a moot point because the Durax is not available in the Avy and I do not want a crew cab pickup. I live in Mich- it was -4 last night and that means plugging a diesel in.
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The title of the thread should be hauled 11,000 lbs. The boat weighs 8500 and the trailer 2500.
Either way the Avy does a great job, gets about 8-9 mpg hauling the boat. A diesel upgrade on a pickup will cost $ 6,000. The differnce in hauling is about $ 136 per thousand miles (15 mpg- diesel vs 8.5 mpg gas- $ diesel .25 more per gallon). That means I would have to haul that boat 44,000 miles to get even with the investment cost of a diesel. Now I do not want to turn this into a diesel bashing thread. It's a moot point because the Durax is not available in the Avy and I do not want a crew cab pickup. I live in Mich- it was -4 last night and that means plugging a diesel in.
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Thanks Avid.
Glad your diesel fired up. The Duramax is a great engine and maybe in 2010 we can get one in the Avy.
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Glad your diesel fired up. The Duramax is a great engine and maybe in 2010 we can get one in the Avy.
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