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Hey there Joe, what you’ve got there can easily be broken down with the sponsons taken off to get it all tightly packed into a long torpedoe box, that should save you and the buyer some shipping $$. It’s an old school twin but at $250, that is not unreasonable. If anyone is worried about that...

Hey there Mike, what sort of tool are you using to work over the blade faces and backs? I have S&B’d more props than I can remember but all I have ever done was to simply sharpened and balanced them and then spend some time on them with a dremel mini buff wheel to get some shine on them. What...

post is from 18 years ago guys.

Hey there Paul, welcome to scale hydro building, the deeper you get into it you will find that nothing is a perfect fit and you yourself will expand your building skill and knowledge over time. Looks like your on your way though, no set of wings or canards will be a perfect fit and you will...

Lots of great ideas, think about the underside access panel option, with what I was sharing with you the other day, that’s pretty much the only way to get the tank over the CG and your right the access hole in your engine bay would be too huge to get it in and out of there. Tons of guys do the...

Apologies Scott, my question wasn’t directed at you at all and I shouldn’t have enegaged Mark at all and inside your post. It’s great that your helping out another boater.

All my boats sport Walts creations, each fall I flush them out with thinner and pump a small amount of ATF into them, flush that out in the spring with some more thinner, fill them up and go again. I surround them with 1/16 th foam sheeting to protect them from vibrations, haven’t had one fail...

Curious, in the NW, how long can you hold a registration over a boat and get it finished and qualified? Seems like you’ve had this boat under construction for a long as I can remember, when do you expect to have it finished and racing?

Just be patient, Steve is fine and is hard at work catching up on orders that accumulated while he was shut down, he’ll respond to your email when he comes up for air.

No need to double up sheeting, that just adds weight, when your adding riding surface steps you normally build those steps into your framing and then sheet with 1/16 th ply.

No, it’s a wood scratch build.

Apologies for hi jacking your post Chris, lost site of your initial question, back to Joe’s talk.

Thought you might like these, Frosty is in the hospital right now getting a new carbon fibre butt flap and many cosmetic fixes from the years of battle. Thought you would also like to see the engine belly pan as it’s meant to be.

Your right to be mindful about the finished tail weight of your 93, there’s a lot going on back there, if I were to rebuild Frosty, that would be an area of focus in my build. Focus on building all things in the back as light as you possibly can, it really adds up. Wings and Verts, hollow and...

It’s an ok idea but you will almost certainly struggle to keep them in place, your engine vibrations will break them free. That’s why most either anchor their mounts to the actual engine well sides or through the hull bottom. Good to be creative but fear you’ll be disappointed in the end.

Check with Brad Nichols, he builds all sorts of cowls out of whatever material you might want.

Al Hobbs always has a bunch, he’ll hook you up. Not McCoys but NR, MC9’s are old and would be tough to find these days if at all.

Took a minute or two to build but works perfectly, when I spray I open the side door window and start the fan, does an amazing job of venting out the poison. 8x8x8 cubed.

That would be me, your right, the plans don’t tell you much, in the end I simply did my own thing and from the photos I have and shared with you before. If your creation visually matches your pictures, you’ve succeeded. All of the blah blah blah about this boat and that boat and the changes...

That’s almost laughable, those 101’s are some chubby beasts, it was a squeeze to get the VAC’s in there, pretty sure a pair of 101’s would never fit. Good luck getting your Eagle all shinny again.