New Boats--Let's see em

[mercguy]

Lee Rocks!!

Looks like you and Jon have been busy. I got my hardware from Lee yesterday so I am ready to seal it up. Boy that is some nice stuff Lee makes and can't beat the price. I hope other people have checked it out before buying something else. I will try to put some more pics on this week.

Kevin

hands down the best hardware made is from Machined Components!!!! I can't wait to get my gas tank he makes also!

PS: the steering wheel is from Comet Cart Sales.........

[mercguy]

no no........

Thanks Bill, yep we have had sun for about two weeks now
Jon called today to let me know he got home OK... Said he is ready to turn around and come back already LOL !

he CAN'T go back down there, UNTIL after he comes and helps me!

[Kevin McAfee]

Looks like you and Jon have been busy. I got my hardware from Lee yesterday so I am ready to seal it up. Boy that is some nice stuff Lee makes and can't beat the price. I hope other people have checked it out before buying something else. I will try to put some more pics on this week.

Kevin

[Jeff Akers]

Great pics. Jeff except for that strange thing peaking in the garage which someone said is what sunshine looked like.

Thanks Bill, yep we have had sun for about two weeks now
Jon called today to let me know he got home OK... Said he is ready to turn around and come back already LOL !

[diamondprohydro]

Great pics. Jeff except for that strange thing peaking in the garage which someone said is what sunshine looked like.

[Jeff Akers]

More JDS "South"

This is Jon's new U.I.M 350cc Comp/Kilo boat going together

[26V]

plan


Mark, Whats up?
The Plans are from Coop, with phone help for any questions from Jeff Scheffler. The wood is some we dryed in the kiln its cottonwood. Lighter then sitka spruce, very straight and clean. Just have to watch out for breaks in the grain. I over sized the stringers slightly to compensate for the relative strenght differences between the spruce and cottonwood. Works nice, and normaly takes screws very well.

Gene

[Jeff Akers]

JDS Factory "South "

Jon Steen and I have been busy building some new boats, He's been at my place for a few weeks making a mess of my little shop

The first pics are of my new D boat going together wich will eventualy get Kevlar cockpit sides

[proprider]

New DSH

New DSH boat that got finished enough to test at the last Region 6 race in Brighton Mich. Now in the shop getting finish sanded and painted in the next weekend
Joe 2-H

[kws]

Mark,
26V is Gene lol .GENE is building this boat not me
he is using west systems epoxy
as far as the wood goes it lighter and stronger than sitka but i will let him tell you what it is ( hey i dont want to steal his thunder ya know ) lol

hint its very straight grained,

[Richard K.C. Mo.]

What Is Is!!!

I have to agree with the previous post...A little flex seems to help a hydro get around corners etc better then a totaly stiff boat. Like I said in an earlier post, for a few years I had a small video camera mounted on dash of my D stock hydro...The last couple of nights I have been sitting around watching all the in dash tapes, and like I said earlier, both sponsons flex way more then people think they do. I am betting at least 3 inches...which sure seems to be a lot, as you cant move sponson at all when boat is on boat cart. Or you shouldnt be able to anyway. The force involved must be tremendous! My theory is that sponsons on a hydro, if they have some flex to them, act like shock absorbers on a car, absorbing impacts etc. Bob Wartinger had a race craft hydro, which i think was made or of carbon fiber or something along those lines. He was never able to get the boat to work...It was fine down the straights, but was a total handfull in the corners. Was this a result of being to stiff? I am not sure. It could be that boat had no "twist" built into it...not sure of that either. For the record, I put 3/4 inch in all of my boats. The carbon fiber boats seem to work in the slower smaller classes for some reason, such as ASH. I would suppose the same idea works for props. I have (or had) 2 Dewald round ear props, both of which are identical. Yet, one was at least 2 mph faster then the other. When I broke a prop shaft (of course you never have this happen when you are running a crappy prop) and lost wheel, I had Ron Hill look prop 2 over. He thinned it out a little....Just a hair...and it was now as fast ir maybe a little faster then prop 1. Is this a result of flex patterns? Who knows...but I bet there is a correlation to flex in hydros. Just some random thoughts.

I hope this thread continues a while, very good subject , may have something to do with safety also.
P.S. WHAT IS IS came from Bill Not Me.
RichardKCMo

[daveracerdsh]

Runaboat

Looks nice. What kind of wood are you using? What type of glue?

[Lights]

Kevin, who's kit or plans are you building the runabout from? Keep us posted on how the building is going.

Mark

[daveracerdsh]

Flex

I have to agree with the previous post...A little flex seems to help a hydro get around corners etc better then a totaly stiff boat. Like I said in an earlier post, for a few years I had a small video camera mounted on dash of my D stock hydro...The last couple of nights I have been sitting around watching all the in dash tapes, and like I said earlier, both sponsons flex way more then people think they do. I am betting at least 3 inches...which sure seems to be a lot, as you cant move sponson at all when boat is on boat cart. Or you shouldnt be able to anyway. The force involved must be tremendous! My theory is that sponsons on a hydro, if they have some flex to them, act like shock absorbers on a car, absorbing impacts etc. Bob Wartinger had a race craft hydro, which i think was made or of carbon fiber or something along those lines. He was never able to get the boat to work...It was fine down the straights, but was a total handfull in the corners. Was this a result of being to stiff? I am not sure. It could be that boat had no "twist" built into it...not sure of that either. For the record, I put 3/4 inch in all of my boats. The carbon fiber boats seem to work in the slower smaller classes for some reason, such as ASH. I would suppose the same idea works for props. I have (or had) 2 Dewald round ear props, both of which are identical. Yet, one was at least 2 mph faster then the other. When I broke a prop shaft (of course you never have this happen when you are running a crappy prop) and lost wheel, I had Ron Hill look prop 2 over. He thinned it out a little....Just a hair...and it was now as fast ir maybe a little faster then prop 1. Is this a result of flex patterns? Who knows...but I bet there is a correlation to flex in hydros. Just some random thoughts.

[26V]

A/B Runabout

here's the runabout I have started. Work is moving along at a decent pace.