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Old 12 March 2005, 16:07   #1
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Hi everybody, I would just like to introduce myself as a new member to ribforums my name is Tim and my boat is an osprey viper 5.25 called sea wise that is powered by a 100 V4 suzuki 2 stroke 1996 and very fast.

Does anyone else out there own this type of engine as i have heard a number of mixed opinions on this unit for instance idling problems and starting, any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks Tim.
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Old 12 March 2005, 16:14   #2
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Hi and welcome Tim;

Would love to see some pics of your Viper
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Old 12 March 2005, 16:39   #3
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Hi nice boat
I have the 5.75 with a 100hp
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Old 12 March 2005, 20:21   #4
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tims osprey 5.25 viper

here are a few pics as requested, like to see your boat. Tim.
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Old 12 March 2005, 21:01   #5
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Nice Tim;

I think i saw that one for sale a year or two somewhere in UK.
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Hi Tim
I have the same unit only mine is the 90 runs like a sewing machine ticks
over like a watch starts first time, I would think yours needs a tweek

All the best
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Old 13 March 2005, 08:00   #7
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Nice Tim;

I think i saw that one for sale a year or two somewhere in UK.
Hi Tim;

I wrote wrong,

I think i saw that one for sale a one or two years ago somewhere in UK.
Have you recently bought it?
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Hi Petrov, Well i bought the boat last september in south wales and having owned quite a few differant kinds of boats and ribs including a boston whaler dauntless none of them compare to this for seakeeping and build.

Regards Tim.
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Than it must be the one i saw on the net, nice to hear that you are happy with it, i have just sold my Falcon 8,2m so now i have a Viper Max 5,8m with a 150hp Yam V6, fast as hell and the acceleration are amazing
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Welcome Tim Great boat you have there, But then im biased

Cheers

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Old 14 March 2005, 12:31   #11
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Osprey

Again nice boat, but I am also biased.

There does seem to bit a number of "Vipers" now on the forum..
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Old 14 March 2005, 16:03   #12
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Glad to read the positive feedback on the Osprey vipers. We hope to collect our Osprey vipermax a week today!! It has been fitted with a 150 Optimax.

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Old 15 March 2005, 06:09   #13
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We also hope to collect our Osprey at Saturday!

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Old 15 March 2005, 07:29   #14
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Great to hear, post some pics when it`s ready
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Old 15 March 2005, 09:59   #15
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Sure I will.

Till now the engine is still in the US. Evinrude promised to fly it over before the end of the week. If the engine is in Belgium before Friday BMC will be able to finalize it for the weekend.
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The engine has not arrived yet. That means no boating this weekend! Thank you Evinrude!
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Old 18 March 2005, 05:58   #17
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Well, we have only 20cm of ice and 30cm of snow left so we have other problems
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Great news, the engine arrived 4 hours ago at BMC. They will do all they can to make it work tomorrow.

Petrov, i'll send you some sun. 19° over here!
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So nice, they say spring will come here next week
Great to hear about engine, congrat
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Petrov,

They managed to fit the engine the same day. Friday at 19h we had our first test-drive.

The rib and the engine are awesome. Even thou she's heavy, the performances are still good. With Kris behind the controls we reached a top speed of 52Kn (2 adults and 220l of fuel on board).

Next weekend we will have our first sea-trail.
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