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    Sticky: TreyB55, beautiful '83 you got there!

    TreyB55, beautiful '83 you got there!
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    Sticky: Re: LETS SEE SOME PICS (lilmule)

    lilmule, that VL-270 looks like it's in really good shape. Is the transom still solid? How does it run with the Yammy?
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    Sticky: Re: (big_un)

    Earl worked for Hydra-Sports when they were owned by Joe Reeves. He left Hydra-Sports sometime around '85 or '86 and started a new company called Stratos. One of the first Stratos hulls was the...
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    Sticky: Re: LETS SEE SOME PICS (dwatts6267)

    Dwatts:
    Any stainless prop in a 23 to 25 pitch size would be a major improvement over the stock aluminum prop. It is said that aluminum props flex under load. Since a tempest is a rather large...
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    Sticky: Re: LETS SEE SOME PICS (dwatts6267)

    Dwatts:
    If you paid $4k for that boat in that condition, I think you made a great deal! In the last two photos you posted, it looks like it's got an aluminum prop on it. If so, you need to get...
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    Sticky: Re: LETS SEE SOME PICS (dwatts6267)

    Dwatts:
    How did you luck into that find? The pictures are a little fuzzy, but that boat looks practically brand new. And it's got the right color motor on it too! Get a better digital camera and...
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    Sticky: Re: LETS SEE SOME PICS (iiton)

    iiton: I don't have a manual for the VL-270, but I used to have a brochure back in the day, because I was a huge Hydra-Sports fan in my teens and early twenty's. In fact, I still am. The X-270...
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