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Would you put Arneson Surface Drives on a new boat?

Old 11-14-2006, 10:14 AM
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Default Re: Would you put Arneson Surface Drives on a new boat?

Originally Posted by KNOT-RIGHT
Great article in EBM!
I have been trying to get my Skater to ride the same way.
Just cant do it regardless of trim settings.
Nice job on her!
Lets see the before shot.
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You'll never get your Skater to ride like a Wing... A Skater is a cat/tunnel hull...which needs a positive attack angle and some contact with the water (that's why you need some combination of shaft angle and prop rake to carry the bow)....a wing is a four point hydroplane that is intended to fly level and needs little or no water contact...see 1st two pictures below. Hydros like negative shaft angles...to carry the stern.

Pic #3 is the "before" photo you requested.

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Old 11-14-2006, 10:28 AM
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Default Short version

Post was too long,, so I shortened it

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Default Joke to lighten up this thread

A Professor was giving a lecture on "Involuntary Muscular Contractions" to his first year medical students. Realizing that this was not the most riveting subject, the Professor decided to lighten the mood slightly.

He pointed to a young woman in the front row and said, "Do you know what your ass hole is doing while you're having an orgasm?"

She replied, "Probably deer hunting with his buddies."
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Default Re: Would you put Arneson Surface Drives on a new boat?

Originally Posted by T2x
Nobody on OSO has enough expertise to discuss surface drives with the "experts" of course

Nobody would actually be able to make such a thing in real life....


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I would.....but........I'm too busy making toupees.

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Old 11-14-2006, 01:23 PM
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Default Re: Would you put Arneson Surface Drives on a new boat?

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I would.....but........I'm too busy making toupees.
Do you also make merkins?
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Do you also make merkins?
I had to look it up......but.....I think it's from Family Guy.

Pretty funny.


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Default Re: Would you put Arneson Surface Drives on a new boat?

T2x, you obviously know a thing or two

OK, that's putting it mildly. But now you've got me really confused because your level of knowledge makes it even harder for me to understand your preference for the #6 over Arnesons.

Or is it that you believe that not all surface drives are created equal and that ASD is perhaps not the best incarnation of the concept?
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I think Mr. T2x is saying is that Arnesons work as long as you have a rudder. Without the rudder at higher speeds the boats (tunnels,cats,ect.) look squirley. Deep V's are too slow for this effect

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no squirrel's here... prefect stable... like its on rails... ITs a shame some people are so hard headed.
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I think Mr. T2x is saying is that Arnesons work as long as you have a rudder. Without the rudder at higher speeds the boats (tunnels,cats,ect.) look squirley. Deep V's are too slow for this effect

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I've heard of some cats that have such a high x dimension on the drives that they become squirrely at high speed. This can probably be worked out by deeper skegs on any drive. I know on some of the Arnesons they have "twin bolt on skegs" that fun down both sides of the props. I wonder if they have different lengths?
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