THEJOKER
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how about the 41 poker run? I still have the quote from beau...
Yes we have Beau's 41 Apache molds and we can build one anytime you guy's are ready. We have a big shop.
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Yes we have Beau's 41 Apache molds and we can build one anytime you guy's are ready. We have a big shop.
OneBadInjun
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Steve1 Fiberglass-Mold Werks
Great, wheres your shop located? In Ft. lauderdale, correct? Good to know someone in fiberglas with talent.
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Geronimo36
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Too bad I don't have any pics from when we put a new bottom in my old Scarab.... 7ft section of the keel was delaminated..cut it out completely, glassed it back in with a make-shift mold and ran a keel stringer with a few other lateral stringers... Also blue printed the bottom while we were at it and by the time I got the boat out of the shop it was 3-4 mph faster. Thanks to Frank at Fiberglass Plus, he did the bottom work and I did the blueprinting. 
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You did the blue printing ? Cool! Now you have a 1st hand feel of what the glass guys got to go through to do that. Did F-Plus flipped the boat over for ya or did you do it on your back ?
Geronimo36
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They flipped it on 45* for me so I could do one side at a time... This was 1998 timeframe so I was still working at the marina.. I'd work in the shop till 4:30 pm then drive down to Franks and work on the boat until 11pm every night... Long days, lots of work...
My fiberglass work goes back to when I was a teenager, I was shaping and glassing surfboards at 13 yrs old. Then when I was a mechanic I was always the resident glass guy. One project at the marina I put a new bottom on a waverunner... The owner ran over a piling and ripped a pretty good size hole in the bottom..
I guess I've been playing around for a number of years, just never got to build a boat.. Who knows, maybe one day!
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I had no idea ! Very cool !
BradH
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Here is the tunnel going togeather in one of my raceboats that is 1" Airex being bent in with this roller fixture.. I left the bottom open so I could fasten the core on the backside with #14 Screws to Battens in the hull Jig.
I looked quick at a pic on your website and thought it was cflex...talking to Cosker about boats one day and thought his first Mystic was this system.
Anyway, your tooling is really slick...all of those curves are not simple to mold.
How is the business in the US compared to overseas?
On a side note, I thought Peter was sent a check to "pay" for a boat splashed overseas?
Steve 1
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I have been using Airex since the early 80's Tom Johannsen is a friend of mine .
The Market over in the Middle-East was good for a while then it got flooded with popped boats (two of mine even) We did a lot of Military Boats which is a good market Like they come in and order them by the dozen.
The funny thing is That it all kind of balances out, Our overhead here is Pricey whereas over in say Kuwait the Building, Labor ,Electric is cheap but you have to bring everything in ,
I was ordering 6 months in advance for Glass ,Core ,Trailer Parts ,Rigging and so forth and that was expensive with the containers and the agent added in. so it sort of balanced in favor of working here.
BradH
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Kinda nice having Lewis, Merritt, and National Marine Suppliers just down the street. Throw in some engine builders too.
Can you share any info or pics of the military boats?
Steve 1
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Sure I will dig them out,Merritt handles Corecel also uses it in their way high end Sportfishing boats
tunnelvision69
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any idea how light a strait bottom top gun could be made today in a max effort? and would it run with a new step bottom from the factory? just curious, great thread by the way
Steve 1
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The Problem as I see it is the bow flair, if you lighten the thing up with it’s current aspect ratio it will be a "hand full" in offshore conditions unless a bow tank was provided to add some mass foreword like the bow.
This is how light boats got a bad name; well aside from Idiots leaving “things” Out instead of Engineering the Weight out through substation with better Material, Strategy and shop practices too continue:
Yes the boat can be built under 2000 pounds not really trying ,ready for nuts and bolts, BUT you are making: For sake of words here, a “Heavy Design Light!” And yes it will leave the heaver Stepped bottom tied to the dock in light sea conditions remember F= ½ MV Squared… F=Force M= Mass V= velocity so moving the M-Mass number down one can see a dramatic change taking place to the Force needed and the resulting Velocity.
DPT MOTORSPORTS
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Steve what are your thoughts on some of the new designs racing Class III this year on Dubai? You have been around along time and would like to hear what you think?
Steve 1
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I am trying to see how breaking off from the UIM will affect the S-Class racing and rulings there.
DPT MOTORSPORTS
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Are any of your designs still racing in that series? The new Ocke Mannerfelt/Victory seems to be a nice peace. There is another design but I forget the name that is very fast in the calm water there as well.
Steve 1
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No I have nothing there right now that I know of ,I left 1 10 Meter Cat in Kuwait ready to go.and I was due to go back but having second thoughts on it.
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