Foam support is new to me but if it was straight when you did it it will probably work if it won't flex. I have heard the early hulls had no...
Mine is welded also. A good welder will tell you it may not work but it has many times. They use a special welding rod with high nickel content I...
Nice job so far. I love the color combo, as you may see in my sig pic, when I rebuilt my 18 I-O I went with blue flake over white. I was fortunate...
Well I couldn't find a pylon and couldn't get a reasonable price for a fabricator to do it, so I bought some aluminum tubing and a tubing bender...
Reminds me of my early teens when my friends and families would vacation at a campground on Lake Grassy in Lake Placid. We took the ski boat and...
I sold the Viper a few years ago. It is up for sale again...with a 2.5 liter hot rod Merc. I asked him what he wanted for just the hull, thought...
Jim. I replaced the core and all wood in the hull, balsa and plywood, vinylester resin.
Be careful in that Venom.....you know.....
When the little Viper hit 60 it could get ugly quick. Chine and porpoise at the same time. If I could launch it and land it on the pad I could get...
Very nice work. Love the color combo on the boat and the detail work really looks great. I'm sure you have mentioned it but what kind of power...
I talked to a local race car frame fabricator who is gonna tackle fabbing a pylon from pics I have captured. I'll post pics if we get it done....
Glad to see you are back on the job. Looking at your rebuild I almost find it funny that you are worried about strength in that transom. When you...
Thanks Tom. I think I'll check into having one made. I'm letting the bank account recover for a while though.
Kevin, you might notice the name didn't survive the resto. I was a child of the 60s and 70s and loved some of the AOR (album oriented rock) music...
If the hull is distorted, the core is gone. As big a cored area as that boat has, I'd walk away.
If the balsa core is intact and you aren't planning on a repaint, you could rebuild that boat with traditional materials (plywood and polyester or...
Glad to see you are still enjoying it. Great pics, love the one of Pam? (I assume) getting ready to ski in the wetsuit and the folks in the boat...
Some pics from my original thread, thought they should be in this section. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG][IMG] How she started. No motor, no...
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