Thad Allen's Apache + The Birth of the Cheetah Cat

[Steve 1]

Dave Artie Here is a cut job I did, they had a Cat with the steps in the last quarter of the boat, the thing was dragging the keels and ran however it pleased,I cut 5 feet out of the middle from the front step foreward.

The now shortened front was cut in the chine and sides flared open to match the geometery of the aft section and a piece of steel was bent around it through bolted with all thread bolts that way if a nut got resintited the outer nut would release it.


Those pieces on the sides are 2" steel channel.

 

[glassdave]

Dave here is a Regulator (lower Arrow) the upper is a wall mounted vacuum gauge in PSI that I found in some Iraqi stolen booty ,the entire shop has a large pipe going around it with drops about every 12-16 feet or so. The way I had that system is the regulator could be shut out of the system with a valve.

Thats pretty cool to have the whole place plumbed for the system. For now i am going to leave this as a cart mounted system with all my bag stuff on it. Working on the regulator as we speak

 

[Steve 1]

Thats pretty cool to have the whole place plumbed for the system. For now i am going to leave this as a cart mounted system with all my bag stuff on it. Working on the regulator as we speak

Yes I myself always wanted a shop plumbed that way,we had to start on that building from like zero, heavy war damage and fire but it worked out well in the end. Takes all the fun out of it just switching on the pump.

 

[Steve 1]

Another picture you can see how we cut this thing and matched up the joint.There is the piece I cut out just put a pair of transom eyes on it and lifted the section out.

 

[Offshore Ginger]

Steve just wondering i notice there are no strakes or was the boat designed to get its lift from the pads only ,or were the strakes added later ?

 

[Steve 1]

Steve just wondering i notice there are no strakes or was the boat designed to get its lift from the pads only ,or were the strakes added later ?

They had pad lifting the boat but as heavy as this thing was and the screwed up bottom it never ran well,until it left the operating room that is.

 

[Steve 1]

That boat is in one of the vids as the committee boat when we finished, I took a Pilot house and cut it away on the back for it.

 

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This Deck Mold was the last piece I built for Danny It was a lot of work in those days but I miss that place.I will throw a few pictures in.

 

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Diesel with two speed transmissions and arnesons I heard 81 MPH

 

[Steve 1]

Steve,

Some people can't help but showing the jackass that they really are.

Hey thanks I could not believe the nonsense I was reading from that guy.

 

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Here is the 38 Yanmar boat.

 

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Cobra Powered 38 PP

 

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Another

 

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Some engine room pictures of the 38's that is lonseal under the batteries

 

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More Rigging

 

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Picture of that material.

 

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Outboards

 

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Poker run

 

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Hotboat

 

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