Hi I had been able to find it on cannons website but they just updated the site without the 250s report and i would like to find and save a copy. Does anyone know where I could find it? All I can find is the twin 150s and 200s now. Thanks!
Finding a Freedom 275 twin 250s performance report
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I reached out to cannons asking if they could just send me the numbers but they said the website developer deleted the info when he updated the website. I can’t figure out when they reduced the max hp to 400 from 500, and why (next step is calling Grady directly). I did find a 2021 on boat trader with twin 250s, and I’ve seen a thread where someone ordered a 2017 with twin 250s, so maybe they reduced it in 2022. Twin 250s are very hard to find, yet heavy 3.3 225s and 250s were common on the chase 273 with the same hull, though that was prior to the no wood change. My guess had been that they reduced it in 2016-17 when they updated the boat interior, and maybe they eliminated wood with that change, and without wood it wasn’t as rigid or changed the COG and made it stern heavy with the 250s, but I also can’t find the exact year the 275 stopped using wood.
When they shifted to the seav2 hull, and other large changes, they typically have done the bigger boats first, then the smaller boats over the next 5-6 years. I am slowly shopping for my next boat and have pretty much settled on a 275 with twin 250s as I think I would outgrow a 215 or 235 with my 3 kids as they get older. I love my current boats ability to do 55 running home to beat a storm, and that it can pull up a slolom skier with a boat load of people, and I don’t think the 150s would be nearly enough. 200s may be ok but I don’t like that they require 89 octane and still can’t hit 50mph. The 250s reports I’ve seen are close to the 150s economy, with 10 more mph and I’m sure it would be unphased by 8 people aboard trying to pull up a skier.
Does anyone know when the 275 stopped using wood, or have any experience on a non-wood 275 with 250s who can shed light on why they would have reduced the max hp? Or any direct comparison of a model that changed from using wood to not, without any other changes, if it changed the boat characteristics? Perhaps a marlin or canyon 306 before and after the change?
When they shifted to the seav2 hull, and other large changes, they typically have done the bigger boats first, then the smaller boats over the next 5-6 years. I am slowly shopping for my next boat and have pretty much settled on a 275 with twin 250s as I think I would outgrow a 215 or 235 with my 3 kids as they get older. I love my current boats ability to do 55 running home to beat a storm, and that it can pull up a slolom skier with a boat load of people, and I don’t think the 150s would be nearly enough. 200s may be ok but I don’t like that they require 89 octane and still can’t hit 50mph. The 250s reports I’ve seen are close to the 150s economy, with 10 more mph and I’m sure it would be unphased by 8 people aboard trying to pull up a skier.
Does anyone know when the 275 stopped using wood, or have any experience on a non-wood 275 with 250s who can shed light on why they would have reduced the max hp? Or any direct comparison of a model that changed from using wood to not, without any other changes, if it changed the boat characteristics? Perhaps a marlin or canyon 306 before and after the change?
I have a 2015 Freedom 275 that i am repowering with twin 250s Suzukis. I’ll let you know how it looks n specs when the engines come. If they ever come
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Agreed. I'd call or email them and ask them for the performance bulletin on a 275 Freedom with twin F250's on it.
