Thad Allen's Apache + The Birth of the Cheetah Cat
05-09-2010 | 07:46 PM
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Here is the liner for the Port side these were two pieces going in and the hatches were the entire cockpit sole giving the ability to offer anything a customer wanted by changing them out, the counter sunk screw locations were molded as well.
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05-09-2010 | 07:50 PM
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after the War the place still had tank tracks on it and some supplies were hard to get local for this business that is why I made a lot of things we needed ,most of the Kuwaiti's speak American English and I was treated very well where ever I went, Now when the larger plant was setup I brought in 42 people for the staff, my top molders were Sri Lanken
they have a lot of fiberglass industry there (Sri Lanka) when I was in Bahrain I saw them bare footed on wet glass,a lot of the staff also were from India and Bangladesh ,I had a couple Africans also.the Aluminum shop our welders were Pakistani which I depended on for my Tanks and stainless work.
The standard practice there was to take a Kilo scale (like a baby scale) to weigh out resin in their area they worked very well and did exactly what they were told.
When I got there a Kuwaiti I was friends with through a Boat sale years before was showing me around and whereever we went his money was refused when it came time to pay, I wondered about this and found out when the Iraqis Kidnapped a lot of his country men during the occupation and put them in a prison by Baghdad he dressed up like an Iraqi traveled through Iraq Bribed his way in to see these people and gave them letters and took messages back to their families with him, brave dude and a hero to his people, Here is the Crew and myself
they have a lot of fiberglass industry there (Sri Lanka) when I was in Bahrain I saw them bare footed on wet glass,a lot of the staff also were from India and Bangladesh ,I had a couple Africans also.the Aluminum shop our welders were Pakistani which I depended on for my Tanks and stainless work.
The standard practice there was to take a Kilo scale (like a baby scale) to weigh out resin in their area they worked very well and did exactly what they were told.
When I got there a Kuwaiti I was friends with through a Boat sale years before was showing me around and whereever we went his money was refused when it came time to pay, I wondered about this and found out when the Iraqis Kidnapped a lot of his country men during the occupation and put them in a prison by Baghdad he dressed up like an Iraqi traveled through Iraq Bribed his way in to see these people and gave them letters and took messages back to their families with him, brave dude and a hero to his people, Here is the Crew and myself
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05-09-2010 | 07:52 PM
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We are working on the hatch grid plug here, there are Two, port and starboard and when finished slip in under the gunnel caps and get glassed in place,We coated the mold's with a heavy latex material that protected them while we were working then it peeled right off.there are 12 Hatches Two in the center and 5 on each side
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05-09-2010 | 07:54 PM
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Another with the sides off this allowed us to work quickly on the Plug work then the sides were bolted on and the liner portion was finished (above photo) then Molding.
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05-09-2010 | 07:56 PM
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These are the molds which finish off the cockpit, the liner goes up right under the gunnel cap and gets a glassed along the top edge.
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05-09-2010 | 07:57 PM
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Transom Install in our own putty with some custom clamps we built for this mold.The small valance face is off and the cross braces have been removed from the Mold.
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05-09-2010 | 07:59 PM
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I came back to tool the PP 38 which I gave Danny my word I would do ,planning to return to Kuwait when finished, I left everything there ,I could have brought out a Pattern boat if I wanted ,then 9/11 who knew? I never went back ,These people were very good to me BTW.
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05-09-2010 | 08:02 PM
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Here is the Cheetahcat console base it required a multi piece mold, this picture was taken in one of our 43 foot cats.
the top was hinged and had a surface set for Raytheon electronics if that was called for Plus three could sit behind the windscreen on that.
the top was hinged and had a surface set for Raytheon electronics if that was called for Plus three could sit behind the windscreen on that.
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05-09-2010 | 08:04 PM
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Filling in some pictures,Here is the foredeck getting finished for molding this version had a round hatch for a windless between the two small fairings ,there were a couple more variants planned these dropped in like a hatch would and then was glassed 360.
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