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Riley
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What were those for? I saw 2 of those boats at a Naples ME wakeboard competition about 15 years ago. The boats were on trailers and not pulling anyone. Strangest thing I've ever seen done to a boat. |
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75 Tique
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my 89 Supra in 2006 original everything
I'm not super sure, but I am thinking those saddle bags on the centurions were billed as some kind of spray suppressor, but I could be wrong. Guy on my lake had one, which he bought from a friend of mine. |
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Hollywood
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Someone please find a picture of these fenders, I'm intrigued.
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bkhallpass
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Look for an 80s model Tru-trac centurion. As the name suggests, those "fenders" were supposed to help tracking. BKH
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bkhallpass
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Like this one. BKH
http://www.onlyinboards.com/Details.aspx?ID=29181 |
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Hollywood
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Tracking as in the boat listed too much from a side pull? Look like they'd help knock down the chine spray as well.
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bkhallpass
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Upon further review the called them S rails and apparently were for spray only. I remember the boats well, but I guess I did not remember much about the details. The boat model is however Tru Trac II which proceeded the Falcon.
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Riley
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Time sure changes things as I think that blue Centurian is a decent looking boat even with the fenders.
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dipper
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I agree Bruce. Back in the day I thought that was the ugliest thing ever.
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KRoundy
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I thought that Tru-track was because the front fin of the boat "steered" a little bit? I could be way off on that.
The 2001's may have had larger wakes, but they were really soft. You had to really keep your ski on edge through the wakes, even at 32MPH. When did Moomba come on the scene? I had somebody tell me once that Ski Brendella was old Mastercraft hull designs. When MC came out with a new hull design, Brendella would purchase their old molds and put on a different cap. Can anybody verify? |
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Timr71
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I hope you don't mind if I revive this thread. The Tru-track was a model in the 80s up until the Falcon was introduced in the late 80s. My cousin has an 88 Falcon that has been restored and is about to go up for sale. The other tracking system that is referred to here is the CATS that was an option starting in 1990. From the Centurion history page: Centurion turned the water sports world upside-down - this time with steering technology. Centurion developed the patented Centurion Articulating Tracking System (CATS), which featured the first articulating front fin. This design enhanced steering tracking ability. Back in the later 80s / early 90s there weren't many Centurions in the east. My cousin decided to buy a Falcon Sport about the time he graduated from college and when he called the factory in Merced he was told that there wasn't a dealer within 300 miles of his location in east, TN. So, he purchased a 1996 model directly from the factory. BTW, he still owns that boat today (after selling it and reacquiring it) and it does have the CATS fin. Totally agree on the fit and finish knocks, but it does have a nice slalom wake. |
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MourningWood
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Another popular West coast boat was the Sanger Skier out of Fresno (or Sanger) , Ca.
More known for their flat-bottom, S-K type boats and jet boats, they had quite a run with inboards in the 80's. |
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rebel skier
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They still make an closed boat inboard direct drive, but target it to barefooters.
Sanger DXII There is a relatively contemporary direct drive sanger on our lake. |
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Nautiquehunter
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I miss that show Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with George Fowler.
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Keep it....from sinkin'
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Nautiquehunter
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Wrong George Fowler that George Fowler was Marlin Perkins.
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KENO
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I think that that George Fowler who you think was Marlin Perkins is really Jim Fowler Wild Kingdom |
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KRoundy
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I was right about that steering thing after all! I wonder what that looks like - as in how it physically operated?
My brain has so much useless knowledge about ski boats built from reading Water Ski Magazine every month since I was 15.... I used to save the yearly boat reviews for a couple of years just reading over and over about all those dream machines. The ts6m burst onto the slalom scene from nowhere. The wakes on those boats we almost nonexistent. I skied behind a Ski Centurion in 1986 on a private lake. It wasn't until after our sets and were driving away when I said, "That wake was so small I hardly remember it being there." My ski companions all agreed. We skied daily behind a 2001 hull Nautique. There was definitely a difference. Then the NWZ appeared and it was tons better. Then wake boarding happened everything changed. |
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Timr71
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I will be back in my cousin's shop in the next month or so. I'll snap a few pictures so you can see how it works. Basically the steering cable goes down one side of the bilge to the rudder, the same as it does in all inboard tournament boats, but there's an extension on the cable. So after the connecting point at the back/rudder, it goes back up to the tracking fins where the very end of the cable engages the one rotational fin. That may not be a great description. The rudder connects at a mid-point in the steering cable and the CATS fin is at the end. That makes the cable longer than normal and it goes from the steering wheel area to the rudder and then halfway back up the boat. I'll post the pictures in this thread. Since I know you guys love pictures, here's a couple of my recently restored 1993 Centurion Falcon. Before: |
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Timr71
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Another before shot:
After: Ready to play: |
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dsums
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Interesting thread. Nice to see all the boats from our past. I had a 87 Ski Supreme from 1991 - 2006. Similar to the one in the beach pictures. Mixed feelings when I sold it to get the 196. Had a good slalom wake, superb trick wake which made it a pretty good boarding wake with the extended pylon. Boys wanted a tower but there was no way I was adding a tower to a classis tournament boat. Too much of a traditionalist I guess. To this day I feel it was one of the best laid out and most comfortable driver areas I have come across. Everything was right where it needed to be for spending hours driving.
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before the questions come. I did have a front strap on the pylon before we used it. This was when I had the for sale sign on it
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Hollywood
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In terms of driver seat/body comfort American Skier is the best I've ever driven, period. Correct Craft was way behind until the rotocast bucket seat (still not better but very, very good) but the CC 1987+ instrument panel was also a major improvement. Never been in a Supreme, looking forward to it. |
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no doubt about it... john |
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halfnelly
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Agreed, the driver seat and padded armrest were much nicer than what CC had to offer back then. We had an '87 Advance with a PCM 351. |
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Hollywood
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That's a nice looking boat. I wouldn't mind owning a 1987 Advance.
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halfnelly
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It was a great boat. Only qualms would be that they ride a lot rougher than a 2001 of the same vintage, and the spray at slalom speeds was considerable. Shortline slalom in a head wind you were getting pelted. Great trick and barefoot hull, though. She'd run about 48 with the 240hp 351 and a 13x13 wheel. As you can see, they were quite popular in our ski club during that time:
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Jonny Quest
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This the one you were referring to? |
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