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What do we have here - a new O/B Funship?
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Author:  simonj [ Tue Sep 29, 2015 3:59 pm ]
Post subject:  What do we have here - a new O/B Funship?
Spotted on Four Winns facebook page:

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Oddly, Funships are no longer shown on the FourWinns website. Only the TS series remains.

Interesting.
Author:  deafwish [ Tue Sep 29, 2015 6:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: What do we have here - a new O/B Funship?
Looks like a Chihuahua with a MASSIVE testicle.
Give me the SBC option with side exhausts, thanks.
Fail!
Author:  purdueosch [ Tue Sep 29, 2015 7:12 pm ]
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I saw that on the FW facebook page. Probably the most low maintenance Funship out there. I wonder how popular it will be?
Author:  DougT01 [ Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:25 pm ]
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I'll take an OB all day long :-)
Author:  blue dragon [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:25 am ]
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Looks like they added some freeboard to an SL and slapped on an OB motor :lol:
Author:  Cap'n Morgan [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:09 am ]
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Yes, it's the new HD270 deckboat. Available in O/B and sterndrive configurations. More models to replace the pre-historic design of the Funship will follow.
FW also introduced the TS242, larger bro of the TS222 wake boat.
Author:  rpengr [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:11 am ]
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The storage under that rear seat must be massive!
(One of the benefits of having that ugly engine on the back of your swim platform)
Author:  blue dragon [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:15 am ]
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Who cares about the storage, this summer I anchored in 70 feet water on our lake and had about 10 kids jumping off the back of the boat and swimming. With that huge OB there, I can't see how it can be a "fun ship" :P
Author:  Riva Mike [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:08 pm ]
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My boss just got back from the dealer meeting -- he has the gray shirt on with his back to the camera, just boarding the 27. He said they had 9 people on the boat and it ran 51 with a full tank. At cruise in the high 30's he said you literally couldn't hear the motor and that there are something like 6 or 9 insulated storage areas or coolers. Without the engine taking up space the designers have lots of space to play with. The biggest issue will probably be price. A loaded 27 will be in the 120 range. I'm not sure if Four Winns is sending factory support to the Annapolis show in a few weeks. At the minimum our dealer rep will be there and hopefully answer questions about the new offerings.
Author:  LouC [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: What do we have here - a new O/B Funship?
Well...looks is a subjective thing....but I think it will sell well in coastal/salt water regions where I/Os have a rep for being very high maintenance. The safety advantages of OBs is significant too and now that I/Os have to have cat converter exhaust, they made the most maintenance intensive power package even more costly, at least for coastal/salt folks.
Author:  DougT01 [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: What do we have here - a new O/B Funship?
LouC wrote:
Well...looks is a subjective thing....but I think it will sell well in coastal/salt water regions where I/Os have a rep for being very high maintenance. The safety advantages of OBs is significant too and now that I/Os have to have cat converter exhaust, they made the most maintenance intensive power package even more costly, at least for coastal/salt folks.


Yep, my thoughts exactly.

Plenty of room to jump off either side of OB.
Author:  LouC [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 5:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: What do we have here - a new O/B Funship?
Easy to winterize
No cooling hoses that can fail in the bilge and pump the bilge full of salt water
No concern with fumes in the bilge
No bellows to leak and ruin the gimble bearing/ujoints
No cat converters (yet)

Yes I still run the I/O but I am way more patient, tolerant and persistent at fixing things than most boat owners I know. If FW wants to sell in coastal regions bigger boats with OBs are a must, if they stick with I/Os no one will take them seriously. That's just how it is here.
As an old boat mechanic from the Bahamas once said
"you can have an in, you can have an out, but not an in/out"!!
Author:  298VISTA2000 [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: What do we have here - a new O/B Funship?
Us freshwater boaters may turn our noses up at outboards but the saltwater boaters do the same thing at our IO's. Why don't they put a V-drive in those boats and kill two birds with one stone? Potential to run aground?
Author:  deafwish [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:23 pm ]
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Certainly won't be able to rebuild that bad boy for $1k when it hydro-locks.
Author:  Cap'n Morgan [ Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:52 am ]
Post subject:  Re: What do we have here - a new O/B Funship?
Riva Mike wrote:
My boss just got back from the dealer meeting -- he has the gray shirt on with his back to the camera, just boarding the 27. He said they had 9 people on the boat and it ran 51 with a full tank. At cruise in the high 30's he said you literally couldn't hear the motor and that there are something like 6 or 9 insulated storage areas or coolers.


What were the boss' impressions of the HD270 with the new Mercruiser 6.2L 350HP sterndrive (which was in the HD270SS pictured) ???
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