Thanks Mr. Finch. That's exactly why I took this project on. The bad rap the real 89 U-10 Winston Eagle "Lobster" took, and yes! I know it was a failure !! and the whole project was scrapped. But, I believe that this design and type of hull for a 1/6 Gas Scale could prove to be petty awesome, "DON'T KNOW TILL YOU TRY", So, long story short I decided to build the M L Boat Works wood kit, and boy this became a project and a half. After talking to some that have ran the RC Version of the "Lobster" and taking a lot of their advise to heart ( thanks Wes Ellet ), I took the time to studied the wood kits design and pondered on that for a long time.
Also read a lot of forms as to what was being said and all where petty much the same : Blow overs and the hull slows down in the turns or have to slow it down to turn !! But, all agreed that it was fast on the straights. Around that time, I had been building the M L's rc version of the 93 Winston Eagle ( not the Lobster ) for a friend from the Badger's Boat Club and learned a lot off that kit. For that reason I made some changes to the "Lobster" boat kit.
The first major change: was the Air Ram section, that joins the sponsons to the hull. This was modified by changing the angle of attack to the Air Ram, Lowing the front an 1/8" and raising the rear an 1/8" and also taking 3/16" off from the highest part of the Rams top air foil and fathering it out to the ends ( on top only ).
The second change: was the front canard and flap sections following the same principle as the first change !! 1/8" down in front and 1/8" up at the rear using the hulls side horizontal center line as a guide.
The third change: was to stiffen the back of the hull starting at the stuffing box area to the transom and eliminate any or all twisting of the hull. this would cause havit to any hull, especially in turns.
The last change: was that I modified the bottom of the front sponsons to match the bottom shape of M L's rc version of the 93 Winston Eagle, it has a step towered the inside of the sponsons
John, ran the "Lobster" yesterday and it looks very promising, stayed on the water and really turns good at high speed, better than I had anticipated. Made small trim changes to the strut and turn fin and will stay there till we hit a race, conditions all ways change at races. Duke from the Badgers Boat Club, took a short video frist time it ran on the water, just don't know how post it on here. Thanks John and Happy Racing
