WTB A-B Hedlund or Giles Hydro

[25xs seeya!]

Hi, I'm looking for an A-B hedlund or Giles hydroplane for display purposes, must be in decent shape with mostly wood exposed, please post up with what you might have with a pic or to, thanks much!

[25xs seeya!]

Lots of views of this post and no body's got an old hedlund laying around??. BTT.......

[bill hoctor]

Hi, I'm looking for an A-B hedlund or Giles hydroplane for display purposes, must be in decent shape with mostly wood exposed, please post up with what you might have with a pic or to, thanks much!

Call Bill Walker 904 377 6960..had a Giles at this National !

[maplelabllc]

Hi, I'm looking for an A-B hedlund or Giles hydroplane for display purposes, must be in decent shape with mostly wood exposed, please post up with what you might have with a pic or to, thanks much!

Craigslist Milwaukee WI

[ZUL8TR]

Hudlund here

https://madison.craigslist.org/boa/5716663640.html

[rumleyfips]

Isn't 10ft kind of long for a B ? I thought they were closer to 9-6.

[SeaBat]

The Hedlund sure looks similar to a Hal Kelly Jupiter. Any one know if they were?

[dwhitford]

No, absolutely not!

[pat]

I would say that the Hedlund and Jupiter are very close but there are some differences in the tunnel roof between the sponsons and the deck configuration. Both great boats.

[dwhitford]

I'll add that while lift parameters hold sway, and you get to design just so many boat configs that'll work for the horsepower you have, and the expected speeds you'll go, you can still get unique boat configs. And the Hedlund was one such unique boat config. Remember, the Hedlund was b4 the pickle-fork construction to reduce unnessary frontal lift.

I really wonder now whether we still need to build picklefork hydros. Might we now instead keep the chine angles that work, perhaps shorten (or lengthen) the boats (as necessary), and get rid of the pickel forks? I'm not boat-designer enough to answer this question, but I hope I pique enough interest among real boat builders to get my attention.

Let's take a suggestion from the OPC guys, whose boats turn on a dime. They run deep tunnels. For 40-50 years we Stock, Mod. Alky guys always think that we can't run that deep. But with the higher horsepower nowadays, we can. And with current up-down alky midsections for powering away from a beach start. it's clear that we have horsepower enough for deep starts.

So I recomend that we re-evaluate our entire notion about what boats we can run and stop quibbling about prop-shaft heights, class parity and such other BS and get on with racing BOATS.

[25xs seeya!]

Why did you guys hijack my thread?

[250 Quincy]

I have a 9'-8" Jupiter in very good condition I would sell. jeg4224@aol.com

[ZUL8TR]

Joe see PM Pete