Thad Allen's Apache + The Birth of the Cheetah Cat
05-09-2010 | 06:50 PM
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From: Beautiful Fort Lauderdale www.cheetahcat.com
Here a couple of the crew are preping the last couple molds for lamination we need 16 of these things built like now, the Iraqis are acting up everyday. that arrow is on a Gelcoater we built while my Venus equipment was on it's way over .this is the first floor of the shop where the Cheetah model 8 was built in secret.
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05-09-2010 | 06:57 PM
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From: Beautiful Fort Lauderdale www.cheetahcat.com
I will dig out the pictures of this 10 Meter Cheetahcat fishing boat,one piece boat out of a multi piece mold.
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05-09-2010 | 06:59 PM
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From: Beautiful Fort Lauderdale www.cheetahcat.com
We faced the raceboat Hull fixture with plywood and then pulled a mold, the edges were very sharp and required 3 strips of surfacing veil to be placed so we could get it skinned out without having a problem.
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05-09-2010 | 07:03 PM
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Working on the skin coat: surfacing Veil then mat, on the wall there are pictures of the Emir of Kuwait and the Crown prince ,common practice over there the big guy gets respect and is seen all over.
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05-09-2010 | 07:04 PM
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From: Beautiful Fort Lauderdale www.cheetahcat.com
What we did here is to make a couple molds that sat on the hull mold to create the Sides of the fishing cat, these lived on Pipe horses and could be rotated up vertical to laminate the gunnel cap and a return behind the coaming and for gelcoating until they were placed on the hull mold.
The vacuum system is in now you can see the piping on the wall and on the left a gelcoat rig we built,the vacuum pump was a blower from a air raid siren that was bombed during the war, I had a 10 HP motor on it and all was well, it worked good.
The vacuum system is in now you can see the piping on the wall and on the left a gelcoat rig we built,the vacuum pump was a blower from a air raid siren that was bombed during the war, I had a 10 HP motor on it and all was well, it worked good.
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