How would YOU build your CSH!

[DougMc]

Diane's boat is a Pugh

Bill Giles told me it was a Giles and it has his sticker on the hull.

[Composite Specialties]

Maybe she has two boats. The one she had at Raleigh was a Pugh.

[hydroracer25]

But if you really want to engineer a boat that will kick ass -- go with a encapsulated boat. Again there are some issues that you will have to engineer to overcome, but in the end you will have a boat that is safer and probably faster around the race course since the drive isn't hanging on for dear life in the turns.

Fate And Be There,

Are you really trying to say that encapsulated hydro would be the fastest type of hull in....let's say CSH? How can this boat keep the sponsons out of the water in the turns without "tripping and catching"? How is it going and how are you going to control the attitude (or altitude) of the boat in the straights? Lastly, how will you make it light enough with the capsul to make CSH weight?

No doubt it would be safer as long as you have qualified divers at that race site.

Mark

[stu_racing]

Don't count the laydown CSH out yet

If I do recall correctly, this year a laydown, Y302 CSH ran mid-pack amongst some of the best CSHs in the northeast. Some of the boats that beat this rig was John Runne, Chris Mizener, Billy Allen, and Rich Palmer (some good national contenders). I might add that this laydown was in it's first year of their CSH program and the driver only was in his 3rd year of racing SO. So don't count out a laydown CSH yet, I'm still working on my program