Sport 20 rollcall

[MattHench]

Here is my spt20 I finished up not long ago.

 

[Samuel Hagan JR]

Here is my spt20 I finished up not long ago.

Is that a ML. If so I tried the same thing and the floor ripped off from where it stuffed.

 

[Bill Gibson]

Here is my spt20 I finished up not long ago.

Beautiful work Matt!!

 

[MattHench]

Is that a ML. If so I tried the same thing and the floor ripped off from where it stuffed.

Ya ml 338, oh damn, well see if that happens to mine, has only made a few laps so far.

 

[MattHench]

Beautiful work Matt!!

Thanks man!!

 

[Mike Hughes]

Ya ml 338, oh ****, well see if that happens to mine, has only made a few laps so far.

I think you might be OK. Your boat seems to have the carbon run up the side of the tub to create more holding power. When Sam nose dive it in, the water hydrolic the bottom of boat off. He only has the carbon running in the bottom of the boat.
Mike

 

[MattHench]

I think you might be OK. Your boat seems to have the carbon run up the side of the tub to create more holding power. When Sam nose dive it in, the water hydrolic the bottom of boat off. He only has the carbon running in the bottom of the boat.
Mike

Actually it does not, I laminated all the pieces before assembly, I did rough up the gluing surfaces good and there is descent little fillet down the seam so we will see.

 

[Samuel Hagan JR]

Actually it does not, I laminated all the pieces before assembly, I did rough up the gluing surfaces good and there is descent little fillet down the seam so we will see.

If that’s the case the floor will rip out. I learned the hard way. Ran fine maybe a couple races. Took a really bad stuff and from the force of the water it ripped the floor completely off.
Only thing holding the motor to the boat was the shaft.

If anything I would maybe fiberglass the floor to sides?

I’ll post a picture of what mine did.

 

[Samuel Hagan JR]

 

[MattHench]

If that’s the case the floor will rip out. I learned the hard way. Ran fine maybe a couple races. Took a really bad stuff and from the force of the water it ripped the floor completely off.
Only thing holding the motor to the boat was the shaft.

If anything I would maybe fiberglass the floor to sides?

I’ll post a picture of what mine did.

What I'm thinking, or maybe some tri gussets or some carbon angle.

 

[Samuel Hagan JR]

Like you I thought opening it open would be awesome for Nitro.But when you take the internals out, It weakens the floor structure badly. Sad part is I have a brand new Sport 20 like that also that we haven’t ran yet. I have to somehow fix what I did to make the floor stronger.

 

[Samuel Hagan JR]

What I'm thinking, or maybe some tri gussets or some carbon angle.

I did some carbon angle on the sides to help with flexing. Didn’t help.

 

[MattHench]

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Wow, at least your smiling about it, I'm gonna figure something out now.

 

[Mike Hughes]

Like Sam said, you need to do something. Lay in some 1" carbon tape along the edge. I would also suggest a carbon tube jsut behind the suffing box. Across the center of the bottom to give it some support. You can drill it into the tub sides and slide it into one side more than slide it back the other way. This will give you a solid point that cant be ripped out. Then glass the boom to the floor.
Miike

 

[Samuel Hagan JR]

Here’s the Sport 20 I haven’t ran yet. Just because I’m scared of the floor doing the same thing. I think if we find a way to get the floor to stay on better it’ll be fine.

 

[Samuel Hagan JR]

Wow, at least your smiling about it, I'm gonna figure something out now.

It was a bizarre accident. I couldn’t be mad at no one but myself. So I didn’t let it ruin my day. I’ll just build another one.

 

[Samuel Hagan JR]

Some angle I put in the middle.

This rod I left on because with out it the boat twisted really bad. Keeping this rod in it helped the twist.

 

[Mike Hughes]

Maybe you should do 2 of them that way. Dont have to be big tubes. I would suggest 3/16. You could do another one towards the back

 

[Samuel Hagan JR]

I do think what you did is way better then what I did. But it’s just a warning. Happy boating.

 

[Samuel Hagan JR]

So what I think would help is give the floor something more in the front to glue to. So I’m going to fix what I got and I added some material for the floor to stick to.
I’m also going to fiberglass the floor to the sides and give it another go. Love the boat. Handles great and was fast.