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I thank you for the hospitality and the nice compliments we have received here in your "House" so from the Two Steves Thanks for being a great bunch of Guys and a credit to our industry.
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Thad Allen's Apache + The Birth of the Cheetah Cat
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I thank you for the hospitality and the nice compliments we have received here in your "House" so from the Two Steves Thanks for being a great bunch of Guys and a credit to our industry.
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Sent!
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I designed the Boat and have my original drawing on the wall.
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I will check it out.Sorry!
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Should be OK now.
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The Cheetahcat 8
August I walked out of the Kuwait Airport 1:00 Am in the morning to a comfortable 115 F, I joked with the Cab Driver saying by noon this place must be impressively HOT and He said this is nothing wait and see. Anyway noon I walked out of the hotel and It was in fact like a oven.
The Kuwaiti’s keep it quiet I was there and we setup on the second floor of a building in a area called Shuwaikh A lot of industry there.
Now after the 94 UIM Championships a new rule was passed that all “S” boats were to be no longer than 10 Meters in Length,Well they were at the time with the exception of ONE which was The Cheetahcat and they were 11 Meters ..
Anyway sat down and drew something a little different since I lost a meter and now had to compress the boat NO!! something new was needed and the #8 boat was it, with a wider tunnel and adjustable canards for flat water ,also the boats volume was decreased to bare minimum ; that wind blast from a passing semi.That need addressed as well ,The Crew had to sit tandem and I had to make some minimum weight and was warned not to be caught light. OK I added a simple ballast system on the CG Low and Outboard far as it would go!
Had the Core flown in from Switzerland,Trucked in some Dow resin from Dubai scrounged a bunch of 5.6 oz Surfboard S-Glass and some biax from England that I figured a way to cut the mat off.The Kuwaiti's had 650 people on staff so borrowing a couple to drag "I" beams up the stairs was no big deal.
Ok I was ready to go with the project.
August I walked out of the Kuwait Airport 1:00 Am in the morning to a comfortable 115 F, I joked with the Cab Driver saying by noon this place must be impressively HOT and He said this is nothing wait and see. Anyway noon I walked out of the hotel and It was in fact like a oven.
The Kuwaiti’s keep it quiet I was there and we setup on the second floor of a building in a area called Shuwaikh A lot of industry there.
Now after the 94 UIM Championships a new rule was passed that all “S” boats were to be no longer than 10 Meters in Length,Well they were at the time with the exception of ONE which was The Cheetahcat and they were 11 Meters ..
Anyway sat down and drew something a little different since I lost a meter and now had to compress the boat NO!! something new was needed and the #8 boat was it, with a wider tunnel and adjustable canards for flat water ,also the boats volume was decreased to bare minimum ; that wind blast from a passing semi.That need addressed as well ,The Crew had to sit tandem and I had to make some minimum weight and was warned not to be caught light. OK I added a simple ballast system on the CG Low and Outboard far as it would go!
Had the Core flown in from Switzerland,Trucked in some Dow resin from Dubai scrounged a bunch of 5.6 oz Surfboard S-Glass and some biax from England that I figured a way to cut the mat off.The Kuwaiti's had 650 people on staff so borrowing a couple to drag "I" beams up the stairs was no big deal.
Ok I was ready to go with the project.
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Quick hull fixture, the first race since the liberation is coming up and do not have much time left.
When I asked about the Species of wood they said Red Wood ?? Ok it was light like spruce but had a fine grain, I picked up a plank from another Pile there and asked what it was same answer Red Wood Huh!! Everything was Red wood?? But Hard as hell and heavier than any of the maple I had ever worked, I used it for mallet's turns out it comes from the jungle somewhere and they do not know much about it.
When I asked about the Species of wood they said Red Wood ?? Ok it was light like spruce but had a fine grain, I picked up a plank from another Pile there and asked what it was same answer Red Wood Huh!! Everything was Red wood?? But Hard as hell and heavier than any of the maple I had ever worked, I used it for mallet's turns out it comes from the jungle somewhere and they do not know much about it.
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I'll tell ya whats cool . . . . . you took pics of all this stuff
what is the density of that foam again?
Airex R63.80 5-6 Pcf Used a lot of it back in the day.
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