BERKSHIRE Test with Twin 400's

[BLUE by you]

Anyone check this out? It's on the Forest River Marine Facebook page...

FOREST RIVER MARINE: We tested Twin Mercury 400R's on one of our 25' factory pontoons and even installed the Mercury Marine Vessel View Mobile Module!

Saturday - 76.66 MPH with 2 passengers
(Our Master Tech and R&D Guru's made some minor adjustments and decided to retest.)

Tuesday -
3 SECOND HOLESHOT 0-20 MPH
75 MPH with 4 passengers

[ronhusak]

Man!
I couldn't afford one of the 400's let alone another and the boat! Yowzer!
Ron
At Lake Havasu with my 18 and a 40HP ETec!

[mpilot]

It's amazing to see the rules of exponential horsepower in action. I've been on some single engine boats that would run mid 50's with 250's and below on them, but that boat has to have over 3 times the power to go half again as fast. I would imagine that boat will be priced like the Crests and Playcraft's with the twin 400's in the 120-150k range.

It's not too bad really when you figure you easily have 60k+ in engines alone plus probably another 15k+ in rigging, power steering, gauges, vessel view, etc. Just to get it running you are easily in the 75-80k range so you are getting the boat at a good price, especially with the extra engineering that goes into it.

[smltooner]

It probably needs the 2nd 400 just to move the extra weight of those monsters.
I'd hate to buy the gas, too.

[rancherlee]

28' Premier with twin 300 Suzuki's on our lake and the guy uses it for the annual poker run on the lake every year...... say he goes through 150+ gallons that day and tops out at 68mph. Premier also had there triple motor 12' wide one up on the lake last year for the photo shoot, what a monster.