tomuchstuff

I like the way you did the windscreen/window the most so far on that 1972... It looked like it bolted on, and there was room for the deck hatch to work. I thought it may look to steep to go that hi that fast by starting on or close to the factory wind screen mounting aria... looks like the top dose go back past the factory stopping point a little but looked to work and not cramp the front seats... I'd like to have seen it finished with the revers inset stripe, stepped lip and inset window like the way they do on the newer 20's....

so did you check with cigarette to see if there were only 3 boats sold in 1972? or find that out some other way? did your old boat have twin revers scoops in the engine hatch? my boat has two holes in the hatch and the only photo I have seen that makes sens of them looks like it has revers scoops.....

tomuchstuff

so it looks as if the boat was gelled coated white over the wood chines and bondo! it then needed the red fairing and paint as it was not level so the boat was white with a blue water line when she was first ran for sure... seems like a lot of work and red is a much better color 4 selling boats.......

tomuchstuff

I was wrong....... the boat was first pulled from the mold with no chine gel coated white on the bottom and red on the sides with a blue water line stripe? after the chine were in the bottom was primed... then the boat was gel coated white the with a silver water line then at some point at the factory the bottom was faired and painted, then the jet pad was built primed and painted.... I can tell by the way the paint was layered how she was painted, the glass from the jet drive pad covered the second white gel coating and red fairing in places... I can not tell if the boat left cigarette white or red as she was sprayed red two more times but no red paint was layered under the factory body work.....

any one know if a William Reaves worked at cigarette ever. as he seems to have owned this boat first.......

I put a level on the boat today and the factory body work is 100% true I mean 4' level no gaps at all!!!!!! I have spent a day or two working the jet drive pick up and have it almost 100% true on the level finish it tomarrow and put her in 545 primer....

tomuchstuff

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sorry the level shot is so close, I'm holding both the t square and snapping the shot so can only git so far away...

I was planing on having the kid that works for me do all this sanding but the bondo needs to stay level so I am stuck and going solo from here in..... lack of skill can undo some very fine factory body work at this point..

tomuchstuff

whats the best gear to run in a black hawk? 1.5 to 1 gear or 1.36 to 1 gear

tomuchstuff

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photos showing she went from red with blue water line to wight with silver water line then dark red with a wight bottom and matching water line....

she may be the boat used in the first 20 cigarette advertising when she was wight and silver after testing and mold making.... the first advertising was in black and wight and listed the boat as a 19'7" and only offered the out drive.. this boat was wight before the jet drive was added.... and there were only two 19'7" sold with out HIN numbers from what I know, and both were colors other then wight... the boat in the advertising had to pre curs the production boats as in any marketing you can not sell what no one knows about.

tomuchstuff

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the rotted ply in the gauge panel replaced with foam and kevlar... this is the last core replacement in the cap... tomarrow white bilge coat...

tomuchstuff

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primed the hull in filler primer and will sand and 545 her tomarrow... the bottom is true on a 4 foot level every where, it was close to start...

tomuchstuff

well going to scrap the blackhawk idea,, seeing as there rely only good to 400 or 500 hp and seeing as I ran it to a guy that cleaned out Howard Arneson private where house and bought 6 brand new asd6 drive's......

any one want to buy a set of new asd6's that are from the founders private stock????

ktron

Depends what you are going to run for power and what RPM's it's going to turn and what props you have.