.45 mono weight

[Kez]

I am curious to know how much your .45 mono, deepvee weighs. I would like to know the bare hull without hardware as well as the ready to run weight.

I am restoring an old deepvee hull. The bare hull seems quite heavy and the rails are 3/8" ply. I am looking at ways to trim it down. Would like a target weight for a 40" mono hull to shoot for.

Thanks,

Kez

 

[Andy Greene]

Im only going from my feeble memory Kez , but I want to say my old surface drive Seaducer was about 8 3/4 lb- 9lb range without fuel rtr

bare hull was somewhere near 2.6 / 2.8 lb (I think)

Cant read the weight sticker anymore in the old sub-surface drive boat- its been around too long- lol

Andy

 

[Luca Gray]

Seaducer SD3 R.T.R less fuel 7lbs 10oz

Cheers Luca

 

[Kez]

Thanks for stopping by guys. My .45 deepvee weighs 4.5 pounds bare hull and close to 9 pounds RTR. So lots of trimming to do while restoring. The hull is the Dumas 40 size deepvee that I built some 20 years ago. Lots of good memories attached to it and I really like the scale appearance.

The hull did not feel that heavy until I added the engine rails. Dumas supplied 3/8" ply which I think is overkill. I have seen Aeromarine used 1/8" ply in their large cats. So I am now thinking of ripping the heavy rails and replace with 1/4" or 3/16".

 

[Harald1966]

Sorry to mention this Kez, but the weight should be your least concern.

The hull is old school if you plan to race it.

If you don't want to race it, who cares about the weight? Keep it as is, an buy a new "up to date" hull if you want to race.

Sorry

Harald