1946 Century Sea Maid River Ride, Part 2
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2023
- Part 2 of 2 of our what's likely to be one of our last rides in our 1946 Century Sea Maid, out on the beautiful and majetic Ohio River. Keep that volume turned up!
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That Insta360 footage from around the 11:30 mark on is killer! What an awesome ride!
For losing a bunch of footage off of the Insta 360 (typically a Go Pro problem), we were happy that we were able to get the footage that we pulled off of it! Don't make the mistake of mounting a non high-speed micro-SD card in an X3, or it will stop recording on you, as it can't keep up with the 4k or larger resolution that camera films at.
Not really a wood boat guy but that thing is cool! Crazy how the 360 cam got the reflections on the chrome keel while on plane. Future is now! :D
@addvancedgarage - thanks! I don't think either of us are wood boat guys either, admittedly. Certainly not wood boat gurus by any means, as much as some of the other guys are. We've each had a couple of them for a year or two here or there.
Both of us were drooling over this particular boat and decided to buy it. Neither of us have had a 'Chris Craft' style barrel-back looking wooden inboard before and had to scratch that itch. This deal worked out just right for us to be able to try one for awhile.
That 360 camera got some really good shots, despite me losing a significant amout of footage from putting too slow of a memory card in it. I'm just getting the hang of that thing still, but loving it. It certainly is crazy the types of footage you can capture now, with a fairly low investment in camera equipment. Not possible only a few years ago :)
@@retro_grade I had a near death experience in a fiberglass version of a wooden boat hull (barrel type hull) when slowing down, vertical keel caught, and sank, then prop came out of the water and turned into a paddle wheel skidding the boat sideways, driver fell onto the throttle so matted it at WOT, I fell on top of him so he couldn't get off the throttle. It's a fine hull design, just don't give it too much power or it winds up being real sketch.
@@addvancedgarage holy crap, that's insane! Do you remember what kind of boat that was in? I'd have pissed myself if that happened to me 🤣
The good thing is that most of these older wooden hulls, as fast and cool as they appear, really aren't. The original engine in this model, for instance, would have only been a 4 cylinder / 75 horsepower one. Even with the upgraded 6-112 engine, this Sea Maid only goes hi 20's/low 30's top speed.
However, when I was trying to find brochures for the model and year, I discovered that the early 50's year Century Sea Maids had more performance oriented Grey Marine Fireball or Lycoming Racing Six engines in them, and were spec'd at 50 to 52 mph top speed. That, on the other hand is a bit different animal 😬
Grey Marine Six-One- Twelve. Dual up-draft carbs come w fire arrestor. Got a hand crank just in case. Chrome Trumpet horns be a good touch
@danharasty6686 - interestingly, the Phantom 6-112 in this boat has a single carburetor setup, not a dual setup. I assumed that it was the larger horsepower models that came with dual caburetors, but looking online many of them seem to have duals.
Looking back at the some of the information I have from the guy who restored it, this engine (larger than the 4-75 that would have originally came in this model), which was in the boat when he found it, had the single Zenith carburetor on it, mounted to an aftermarket Barr Marine manifold.