Who had the first (production) stepped hull?
09-15-2008, 03:02 PM
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Older than you thought technology
Using the definition of production being more than one boat being built exactly the same. There were wooden hull steamers built back in the 1800s with stepped hulls.
09-15-2008, 03:15 PM
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Hustler power boats did in the mid 80's. When they wanted to add a 40' to there line up of 21', 26' and 32' they took 8' of the back section of a 32' hull and bolted it to another 32' to get the 40' and started sea trials and achieved the 1st step hull. Fiores did this with the help of Mark S from Activator.
09-15-2008, 03:41 PM
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If you want to split hairs and talk about "Production Fibreglass hulls", below are examples of a few (and there were more) that were available in the early 60's.
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09-15-2008, 03:49 PM
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To a lot of our OSO members, it seems if it happened before you bought your first boat...or went to your first race...it didn't happen.
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09-15-2008, 03:58 PM
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Here's Art Asbury in the boat that created the great Rooster Tail in my earlier post above while setting the Canadian Water Speed Record back in the day........... before the LOTO Shootout was a gleam in somebody's Daddy's eye.
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09-15-2008, 04:18 PM
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