"Gaday Mate
I think she's a MTO sport 40 hydro"
Hey Steve,
I agree with Brad - appears to be an MTO/K&H hull. The hull was known as K&H in Southern California before Doug DeWitte bought molds and renamed them Made To Order (MTO). I can't get your thumbnails to enlarge to see bottom details. Here's a pic of Justin Hill's 3rd Place hull at the 2010 NAMBA Nats. I don't know the dimensions of the hull, but it surely looks like yours - there were rear cab and cab forward versions. The hulls are very fast, but the hulls are narrow. Doug did a lot of work with both the Scale and SP42 round nose hulls with turn fins allowing his St. Regis to be very Stout!!! CHEERS !!! Bob
P.S. Just got the thumbnails to download, noticed the K&H Marine on afterplane, 3 piece case P-45 on exhaust throttle - - I'm thinking the boat came from Southern California (San Diego), and was built in the mid to late '80s. About confirms it is a K&H ( ? & Hockenberry) - Maybe Don Maher will chime in. CHEERS !!! Bob
Hi, Bob
From the picture you attached, it looks like you may have solved my mystery. I emailed a guy here in Orange County, So. Cal that owns a business call: K&H Marine. He said he's owned the business (full sized boats) for 40 years, but had never seen or heard of this boat......but he now wants me to sell it to him! So if there was a K&H company making model boat hulls.....I would have to say that it must be the one. The K&H Marine, and the U-190 are clear coated or gel coated over, so the're there to stay. Was there ever a full sized boat made in this configuration? I'm not a model boater (not for years now) what class is U-190? Is MTO still in business?
Many thanks for your help. A gentleman by the name of Glenn Quarles, at RC Universe turned me on to this site. If I browse through this place any longer.........I'm gonna get the itch to launch this boat!!!
Thanks again, Bob
Steve