Boat test for the 2007 Midnight Express 37 Full Cabin including boat specifications, photo galleries, boat videos, boat layout diagrams, boat test numbers, boat test results, and boat speed graphs. Also includes pricing, engine test reviews, ratings, standard features, and gear for the 2007 Midnight Express 37 Full Cabin.

But the ocean made me a total fan. As soon as we cleared Hillsboro’s outermost green buoy, I juiced the throttles and beelined straight east, flat into a free-for-all of four- to six-footers, with a few eight-footers thrown in. Impressions began to flow as soon as I turned north, charging straight into the wind, pouring on more and more speed…35 mph...45 mph...and finally, an amazingly solid, dry, wide-open-throttle velocity of 60.2 mph.

Driving was virtually effortless once I’d added a little tab to keep the nose down, trimmed the Verados out to optimize running attitude, and accustomed myself to snatching back on the throttles when the props occasionally aired out. And the sense of true-tracking, turn-carving control? “Wonderful,” I yelled at Glaser, as I charged around with chills fibrillatin’ up my spine. “Absolutely wonderful.”

Glaser, the way things turned out, was indeed something of an Aronow reincarnation. Could the kid drive or what? And what’s more he could explain stuff simultaneously. While we rocketed up and down the coast recording test data, he was able to describe how the 37’s constructed, with a gutsy, glass-encapsulated, Mantex foam-core stringer system; hull sides, decks, and cockpit sole sandwiched with Nida-Core; a robust hull-to-deck joint secured with both Plexus methacrylate and fiberglass; and a massive, five-inch-thick transom so beefed up with aluminum bar stock, Mantex, and fiberglass (16 layers), it can handle four big Verados, not just three. And he was also able to cite the main reason for the performance we were so enjoying: the savvy placement and design of two aerating steps that traverse the 37’s long, bullet-like running surface.

“The real story continues to be this, though,” I opined as a sort of summation once the clunky constraints of shore-side life had sent us packing back to Hillsboro and home. “We’re jammin’ around out here in the open Atlantic with a Midnight Express 37 Full Cabin in weather that’s got everybody else skunked, including an 80-footer, and we’re havin’ a freakin’ ball!”

“One more hard-over turn, Capt. Bill,” yelled Glaser, by way of response. “And make it full throttle!”

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