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  • JCAustralia
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2008
    • 363
    #1

    Hor shovelnose

    Hi

    Has anybody built one of the HOR Shovel Nose? Any comment about the hull quality?

    http://www.horracing.com/index.php?cPath=37_63


    I own several hull types but not a Shovel Nose ......They do look sweet and like a timeless beauty......

    cheers JC
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    • iamandrew
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2010
      • 576
      #2
      No, i bought the pursuit from them and found that the top deck join was not wetted out enough. possible it could happen to that hull as well

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        • JCAustralia
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2008
          • 363
          #3
          Hi Ray

          Very nice and clean build. I'm just surprised there is not more information about it on the Internet.

          Can I ask you what's the weight like? I once had a catamaran bought from Frankie on EBay and it weight like a tank....

          Cheers

          JC

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            • siberianhusky
              Fast Electric Addict!
              • Dec 2009
              • 2206
              #4
              Don't know why more people don't run this hull, most people seem to scratch build out of wood if they are doing a Vintage hydro. LOL I'm one of them, I've built the Finlay Vintage shovelnose in a few different sizes now from 1/16 to 1/10 scale. Depending on how far you want to go on the details it's a pretty easy build, and the plans are available from a number of places for free download.
              Went a bit overboard on the details on my 1/10 it's a 1957 Miss Wahoo, been over 10 months so far. It has working wet sponsons, everyplace you can see on the inside with the hatch on has had mahogany veneer laminated on so it looks like the mahogany ply the original was built from. Even cut mahogany and oak stringers for inside the sponsons, in case somebody looks in there with a flashlight!
              Oh well Canadian winters are long and dark 6:45 am and it's still pitch black outside, sunset at 4:34 pm, still a while 'till the shortest day of the year!
              If my boats upside down then who owns the one I thought I was driving the last two laps?

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                • RayR
                  @SiestaKey.calm
                  • Jun 2007
                  • 1591
                  #5
                  Originally posted by JCAustralia View Post
                  Hi Ray

                  Very nice and clean build. I'm just surprised there is not more information about it on the Internet.

                  Can I ask you what's the weight like? I once had a catamaran bought from Frankie on EBay and it weight like a tank....

                  Cheers

                  JC
                  It's a standard nitro layup, not tissue paper but certainly not a tank. At 26.75 inches (not 28) it's a little small to compete with the Whips and Phil Thomas boats over here.

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