bat boat--V24

[sailr]

Good action pic!

This is for you AL

[H2OCamel]

good action pic!

thanks!

[Rumdog]

nevermind...

[sailr]

G-FREAK RACING. Nuf sed. run away!

[Rumdog]

lol. just noticed

[Karfrik]

This is for you AL

Yeah!!!,...nice!...thanks.Ill check if i can find any old pictures or video from mine.....Al

[sundog]

We had the chance to carry that boat about 3 or 4 years ago but passed. The "U-Joint" between the steerable drive and the driveshaft looked like they would last about 10 minutes!

Jim, we're discussing this boat on "down and dirty outdrive' thread and they have evidently eliminated the u-joint altogether http://cgi.ebay.com/Racing-Fiberglas...item41566bf921. I've never seen anything quite like that, but Steven says Graupner has done it in the past. Pretty boat. - can you expound on 'bad quality'. And is the hull decent enough to build back with good components? Thx, Sdg.

[Karfrik]

what i can see from the pics is that the strut,turned rudder(2 in 1),forces the teflon tubing along with the flex cable inside to steer,...uhmmmmmmm

[befu]

People have been running steerable outdrives with a flex cable drive for years. Decades in fact. They work great. The main thing is you really need to make sure your steering servo and linkage is up to the task. Any movement or flex here and it will kill the running of the boat as the drive flexes around causing spin outs and eratic behavior.

brian