Hydrodyne
Does anyone know anything about the hydrodyne v-drives? Any opinions?
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What year? I don't recall any in the 90s. Anything in the last 10 yrs or so is a rebadged Calabria.
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I think 1998
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NADA doesn't even show that Hydrodyne made boats from 1997 to 2000. 96 and earlier they only made 2 models I think. A direct drive open bow and direct drive closed bow. From 01 to 03 they were rebadged Calabria's. If it is an 01 it would be the same boat as a Calabria Pro V.
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Some research found me this boat. I have never heard of or seen one.
http://boats.iboats.com/97-hydrodyne...rs/684170.html |
Yea, what Brett said.....
Wild lookin v-drive. I've never seen or heard of it myself. 1997, they were pretty cutting edge for the day. |
That's the one I saw. Had never seen anything like it before.
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I remember seeing a Hydrodyne V drive at one of the West Coast Boat shows in January of 07....if I recall, the company stopped production towards the end of 06, so there must have been very few of those V drives built.
That being said, the mid 90's Dynes were well built, hi quality boats. They used good materials, PCM power, and were marketed as "luxury" ski boats. |
By 07, Bob J of Calabria owned the Hydrodyne name & the old molds to the 90s boats. Actually by about 00 or 01. Hence the fact they were using the same molds & ideas in both Calabria & Hydrodyne. But he just didn't have the cash flow for 2 squandering companies.
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Well you gotta like the GT-40....
After that this one screams TEST DRIVE could be a slalom hull made to look like a family I/O Could be the unsung v-drive version of the nautique 2001 or a masteraft 206 clone. only one way to find out. |
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Size is going to be difficult to determine on this thing given the molded swim platform.
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Nothing difficult about it. It's a 22'6" boat. But 2' of that is the swimstep. So it's going to be more like the interior of a 20' boat with a bolt on swimstep.
Dash is nice. Not sure I care for the twin capt seats though. Maybe if their both on swivels. |
That thing looks like a turd.
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I'd be curious to know how it runs....20 foot V Drive running surface, what appears to be a middle of the road amount of deadrise, full size trim tabs stock.
With a GT 40 in a 20 foot running surface, I doubt it's a slug. In other ads, I can count a couple tracking fins, so it might handle quite well if you remember it's only 20.5 or so feet in the water. |
There's one at my lake, only used by the family for recreation. They are build like tanks, very high quality boats.
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Your boat is the one I was posting about last fall! Looks nice.
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Beware -:mad: Hours on this boat have been rolled. Must think we are all stupid. He is trolling on wakeboarder trying to unload this too - as rider9999
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