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about an hour ago..took delivery of my 257 last weekend will post up pics soon

We have seen a lot of new members in 2017, which is great! For the members that might not know, only two of us run and manage the community. We both have demanding full time jobs. We spend countless hours of our limited free time maintaining the site server, software, support, upgrades in general managing the community and that is just a part of what else goes on in the background. This year was a real under taking with the site upgrade that moved us to a completely new software version. While it may look relatively the same when using the site just about everything changed in the background and we were not expecting the learning curve. While figuring things out we still have a few more major things to do when time permits and we appreciate everyone patience. Not here to complain we do it because, we enjoy it, we get to meet new people that turn into lifelong friends and we always have something in common with everyone, our passion for spending time with family and friends on the water in our boats. We built the CenturionCrew.Com community which was launched over nine years ago. Life and priorities change over 9 years and sometimes managing the site can be a burden. Like the site going down while on a long needed vacation and trying to get it back online with cell phone with limited signal or spending an entire weekend instead of a few hours upgrading the site software because, of some unforeseen issues with incompatible software versions, server upgrades, etc. In nine years the community has grown to over 8,000 members currently, with new members joining on a daily basis. Out of the 8,000 plus members, only 70 of them are currently Supporting Members. Supporting memberships are what support the site/community. Considering the amount of time/hours we spend running and maintaining the site compared to the rate of return, most would wonder why we do it. Since the beginning we have said, as long as the financial burden does not fall solely on us we will continue to run, maintain and grow the community. This year there has been talk about hosting images, bandwidth, file size among other issues. At the end of the day becoming a Supporting Member solves all of the issues. It is $30 a year, $2.50 a month, $.08 a day to have unlimited bandwidth with the only restriction being the size of the image. The images just need to be resized and we believe we have automated the process with the most recent upgrade. The ironic thing is, so many members of this site talk about how much they get from it. Yet it seems they feel it is somehow not their responsibility to help support the very thing that brings them the advice they are looking for, friends from far and near they would have never met otherwise, the sense of pride from ownership of their Centurion/Supreme Boat and the spirit of sharing it with fellow boat owners within the community. Those that have been in the community for a while know we very seldom say anything about memberships or supporting the site. This is a community, we built it, launched it, maintain it, we never wanted to have to ask for members to support it, we just assumed that it would happen. Considering the fact we still put our person funds into the site, plus our free time, it is frustrating having to actually ask members of the community to support it. We need more members supporting the community they enjoy visiting on a reqular basis. Please consider purchasing one of the memberships outlined below. Centurion Boats Supporting Membership - $30.00 Annually - Upgraded to Centurion Forum Group - UpgradedCenturion Supporting Member Icon - Increased Disk space for attachments, pictures and video - Increased bandwidth - Increased User Profile Pic Size - Increased Private Messaging Storage with Attachments in Private Messaging - Personal signature - Private and Public Centurion Crew Picture/Media Gallery Supreme Boats Supporting Membership - $30.00 Annually - Upgraded to Supreme Forum Group - Upgraded Supreme Supporting Member Icon - Increased Disk space for attachments, pictures and video - Increased bandwidth - Increased User Profile Pic Size - Increased Private Messaging Storage with Attachments in Private Messaging - Personal signature - Private and Public Centurion Crew Picture/Media Gallery Centurion Dealer Supporting Membership - $100.00 Annually - Upgraded to Centurion Dealer Forum Group - Upgraded Centurion Dealer Supporting Member Icon - About the Dealer page in the Dealer Classifieds - Unlimited Centurion boat advertising in the Dealer Classifieds - Access to post Centurion Dealer events in News From Centurion Boat and Dealers Sub-Forum - Increased Disk space for attachments, pictures and video - Increased bandwidth - Increased User Profile Pic Size - Increased Private Messaging Storage with Attachments in Private Messaging - Personal signature - Private and Public Centurion Crew Picture/Media Gallery Overall, thanks for all of the support from everyone on the Crew over the past nine years, we truly appreciate everyone of you and are thankful for it. For those members that continue to support the community yearly we could not have done it without you. Thanks for helping to make the community what it is today! Be sure to share your thoughts on supporting the community and how the CenturionCrew.Com and SupremeCrew.Com community has help you through the years. Regards, Ken and Andrea

Here is one example. https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Brakes/Hydrastar/HS381-9067.html Also found this article http://www.boatus.com/magazine/trailering/2013/february/electric-over-hydraulic-brakes.asp

Suck gate. Port and starboard, tough pics I know. Only filled quick fill and pro bags goofy waves not as clean as listed. But has solid push,m

Nope. Cable was never reconnected after dewinterization. It's hard for my large oafish self to get full under the observer seat to find all the cables when putting the batteries back in. After reconnecting this guy, the radio stayed on.

I'll claim it... came in today. Crank no start. Fivebar jinxed it. Must have died shortly after you saw it.

Yes, I have an A plate.

Contact north west boat sports .. they'll set you straight.

Direct Injection vs Sequential Fuel Injection More Torque and Less Fuel - PCM Direct Injection EnginesDirect Injection vs. Sequential Fuel Injection Ever since PCM came out with the new direct injection H5 and H6 engines, we have been asked what the difference is between direct and sequential injection and if PCM is the only company using direct injection. I hope to answer both questions below. Here is some basic information about injection systems. Basically, a SFI (sequential fuel injection) system has a fuel injector for each cylinder. Each of these injectors puts fuel into the system at 30-40 PSI before the intake valve. This air/fuel mixture is pulled into the cylinder past the intake valve on the intake stroke of the piston and is then compressed and ignited. This system was way more fuel efficient and created way more power than the carburation systems it replaced. Sequential fuel injection has been used in marine engines for several years and is the system that is currently used in most new towboats and the system PCM used on engines until 2016. DI (Direct Injection) is the next evolution of fuel injection where the fuel is injected after the intake valve directly into each cylinder at over 3000 psi. What are the advantages DI of over the old SFI system? Antuan Goodwin (engine writer for Cnet) said that readers may have noticed that during the jumps from carburetion to SPFI (single port) to MPFI (multi-port), the point at which fuel is added to the intake charge, has moved from before the throttle to the intake manifold and onward to the individual intake runners — closer and closer to the combustion chamber. Direct injection takes this evolution to the next level by placing the injector inside the combustion chamber. By moving the injector into the combustion chamber, GDI (gasoline direct injection) gains a few advantages over the previously discussed systems. By putting the injector inside the cylinder, the engine’s computer gains even more precision control over the amount of fuel injected during the intake stroke, further optimizing the air/fuel mixture to create a clean burning explosion with very little wasted fuel and increased power delivery. A GDI system also has more flexibility regarding when in the combustion cycle the fuel is added. MPFI systems can only add fuel during the intake stroke of the piston, when the intake valve is open. GDI can add fuel whenever it needs to. For example, some GDI engines can adjust the timing so that a lesser amount of fuel is injected during the compression stroke, creating a much smaller, controlled explosion in the cylinder. This so-called ultra-lean burn mode sacrifices a bit of outright power but greatly reduces the amount of fuel used during times when the (boat) requires very little grunt (idling, decelerating, etc.). Well, enough of all that tech stuff – So what does direct injection mean for you? It means you can have an engine that has more torque (low end power) than a sequential fuel injection system has, and you get that extra power while burning less fuel. I can tell you from personal experience that the new H5 just plain stomps the last year’s PCM ZR409 out of the hole on a Centurion FS33 with max ballast. But the really big surprise happened when we tested the new PCM H6 engine here at altitude in Utah. We were able to get a fully ballasted Ri237 (10,500 lbs. total weight) up to wakeboard speed at Deer Creek. We were really surprised because that is the max amount of weight that we could get to wakeboard speed with my 2015 supercharged 550 hp PCM XR7. We tested them side by side, and the difference was negligible. Needless to say that after our personal experience, we weren’t terribly surprised when we received the engine comparison specs from PCM. The New PCM Direct Injection H5 and H6 are 33% faster 0 to 23 mph than last year’s PCM ZR409 & ZR450. The best part though was that these new engines are up to 27% more fuel efficient than last year’s comparable engines. More power, less fuel. That’s a combination I can live with. It is no wonder a good friend of mine, Trey Thurman from PCM, told me a year ago that PCM had something special coming for 2016 and that I would love it. Trey was right, these motors are very, very impressive. Side note, just in case you were wondering, PCM is the only towboat engine manufacture using direct injection engines for 2016. That means if the towboat you are looking at is not a Centurion, Nautique, or Supreme, it most likely does not have Direct Injection. “Life is Short, Let’s Ride”