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Old 08-17-2016, 12:38 PM   #143
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Re: Let's see your homemade crafts!

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Originally Posted by Ken O. View Post
Well it' not a real boat but it's a little faster than the ones shown previously. I am the president of our local model boat club. I recently got into the 1/6 scale Gas class. I built a wooden round nose old school hydro last year. It ran pretty good so I decided to make some molds from it. Then from the molds I can make Carbon fiber hulls. Here is hull #2 from the layup to running. It's pretty quick. I'm starting on the next one this week for a guy in Michigan.
Layup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akssDxWihhk

Resin infusion using a vacuum pump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQDXb8R9POE

1st day on the water. Whee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r53T4tZN4P8
Very cool! If I tried to operate one of those my boat would be cutting grass or in the trees!
I guess you could say we're in the same church, just a different pew.
I run a couple of slow scale boats around our pond pretty regularly. The advantage of slow is more time to react in a smaller pond, and I need all the time I can get!

Here's a couple of links:

https://youtu.be/guPdhAxaaEY

and

https://youtu.be/rBAckfga5Ac
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