TOPIC: Cool looking ride - Glastron CVX20

Definitely retro looking with the orange upholstery

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Boat looks ok, but I highly doubt it's a 25" prop. No way any inline would pull that large of prop on a 20' boat without a lot of special mish-mashing of gear ratios etc. Even then, highly questionable.

That year 90hp was prop-rated and would have the same powerhead as an older, crank-rated 115hp. So still not gonna pull a 25" pitch!

If it was truly that badly overpropped, the engine is probably shot anyway. But the prop that's on there doesn't look like that much pitch. More likely a 15" or 17".

ed-mc has everything pegged on his comments. We had only an 18 checkmate with a 150hp in line in '75 that would just hit max rpm with one or 2 light people in it with a 23" (more power on a lighting boat even). We ran a 21" for 1-2 teenage skiers. We tried 19" to see if it would ski better, but the drawback was it was larger diameter ear...it fell 400 rpm's short. A same diameter as the other props likely would have been a good ski prop. So if a 150 on a lighter V-bottom boat was running a 21 as an average prop that would pull one deep water slalom skier or one deep water barefooter (at only 170 pounds), then I would think there is no way they think a 25" is a good ski prop on that 20 footer with only a 90 (wasn't it around '82 that merc last rated hp at the crank shaft, and in '83 rated at the prop shaft? ...I remember wanting the 225 v-6 and by the time I bought mine in '83, they only made the 200 and did away with the 225...thought the change in rating method might have been the reason, but not sure).. I would more easily believe it was a computer key stoke error and he meant to list a 15" pitch for good skiing hole shot. I am 6'4" and 225 pounds and would bet if he tried pulling me deepwater start with my double booted ski, that I likely could hold back and prevent that big boat from planing off. Most of these have big V-6 200's on them.