Looking for Minimost Info

[barryt]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. I am trying to resurrect the use of the fun, cheap to build Minimost boat. I am sure many of you remember or have actually built this little racer. If anyone has any pictures or experiences to relate please stop by http://www.minimost.com

cheers

Barry

[barryt]

"If we where smart, we would have made this boat into a very low cost starter racing class"

My thought as well and perhaps its not too late

"Now that I live on the lake, maybe it time to build another one."
Should be even easier now with full size plains and construction manuals available.


cheers

Barry

[Smitty]

Barry, this is the RIGHT place! A lot of racers, before they became racers, bruised their kneecaps with those little boats. Within several blocks of me, one kid had a Minimost, one had a Minimax, and three had Skeeters. Interestingly, we rarely were on the water at the same time. If we had raced, the winner would have been whoever had replaced his weedless fishing propeller with a "speed" prop, and few of the guys seemed to ever get this far. Racing would've been a hazardous operation. Nobody had dead-man throttles or kill-switches; we just used the stock tiller/throttles. And at least some of these boats didn't turn well; my early-version Skeeter had right-angle chines!

[Abbott Racing]

We tried here in Canada a few years back to get this as a starter class but it was the same year the push was on for the mini mouse so it was shot down. I have one that we built out of Marine ply and we painted it up like a vintage racer and it is a blast. This would be a great level entry type class. Limit it to a stock fishing 10hp motor, build some safety rules etc.... and it a father son racing project.

[kws]

we played around with one of the minnimites 15 hp racing foot it just didnt do very well didnt want to turn. then it would trip. plus the faster you went the deeper it buried the nose. we gave ours to a guy called cane pole in tn. for a robotic fishing boat project GOOD luck canepole

[3autility]

Minimost

I had a Minimost in the early 60s with a KG7 on a stock lower unit. My friend had the same boat with the a KG7H. They were a blast and we had a great time running on Honeoye Lake in NY. My friend's boat ran well against a pleasure boat with a 50hp Merc. Those were the days when we all thought that we had fast boats. They were alot of fun and I think it would have made a great entry level race boat. Our Minimosts turned well with a fin on the bottom. I changed the steering wheel to a lower position to be able to get lower in the boat. There is a picture of my boat from the 60s (named "Half Fast") on Skip Hagerman's site under reader's projects. That boat was fun and would have made a great entry level boat for APBA, but it was never to be.
In any case, I hope that people will consider building one for use with the old Merc engines.
Chuck Webster
ARlington, VT

[PopPop]

Minimost

If Stock outboards supported a low bucks class like the Minimost with a 10hp fishing motor, local kids could run a couple of heats at Stock/Mod races on a special single event membership. It might be a great way to get teenagers (father/sons/daughters) started.
Who knows, they might take a good look at the sport and get more involved.

[kws]

check out what Ron Hill is doing with small entry level boats at boatracing facts Pop its pretty neat

[barryt]

We tried here in Canada a few years back to get this as a starter class but it was the same year the push was on for the mini mouse so it was shot down. I have one that we built out of Marine ply and we painted it up like a vintage racer and it is a blast. This would be a great level entry type class. Limit it to a stock fishing 10hp motor, build some safety rules etc.... and it a father son racing project.

Hi

Might you have any pictures available?.

cheers
Barry
http://www.minimost.com

[barryt]

check out what Ron Hill is doing with small entry level boats at boatracing facts Pop its pretty neat

Hi kws

I am new to boats and racing and was wondering if you could give me the exact URL to the Ron Hill info.

cheers

Barry
http://www.minimost.com

[kws]

http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...splay.php?f=28
this should get you there ( new classes if it dont)