Thad Allen's Apache + The Birth of the Cheetah Cat
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From: Beautiful Fort Lauderdale www.cheetahcat.com
Dave here is the military Pilot house going together( out of the thread) But the fine point is this was a "Quick Bag" job where I had the large regulated Vacuum supply ( @ 3HG) the lamination was done 1708 core 1708 ,123 done.the joints get brushed with gelcoat then laminated.
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Another "Quick Bag" cheap body shop plastic film masking used for the bag ,the "Peel ply" was the same only perforated, Burlap was the breather,Masking tape sealed it with massive vacuum channels back to the source.
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Steve:
I said this on another boating website but I will state it here too: The T4 really looks like truly unique design for an offshore V. The vents, steps, the whole design really has an "out of the box-clean sheet of paper" approach to a deep V offshore boating. The only other design I saw that seemed to have this is the Donzi 38 ZR comp. Most of the boats out there seemed to be Deep V's with steps grafted (or cut) into the hull. If you start with a clean sheet and design the hull with vented steps and other design criteria then you are truly using the full potential of the attributes rather than simply incoroporating them. I hope that you get to build the T4 someday and we can see the potential of the design.
Was an original T4 built for brochures and pictures?
Wannabe
I said this on another boating website but I will state it here too: The T4 really looks like truly unique design for an offshore V. The vents, steps, the whole design really has an "out of the box-clean sheet of paper" approach to a deep V offshore boating. The only other design I saw that seemed to have this is the Donzi 38 ZR comp. Most of the boats out there seemed to be Deep V's with steps grafted (or cut) into the hull. If you start with a clean sheet and design the hull with vented steps and other design criteria then you are truly using the full potential of the attributes rather than simply incoroporating them. I hope that you get to build the T4 someday and we can see the potential of the design.
Was an original T4 built for brochures and pictures?
Wannabe
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From: Beautiful Fort Lauderdale www.cheetahcat.com
Steve:
I said this on another boating website but I will state it here too: The T4 really looks like truly unique design for an offshore V. The vents, steps, the whole design really has an "out of the box-clean sheet of paper" approach to a deep V offshore boating. The only other design I saw that seemed to have this is the Donzi 38 ZR comp. Most of the boats out there seemed to be Deep V's with steps grafted (or cut) into the hull. If you start with a clean sheet and design the hull with vented steps and other design criteria then you are truly using the full potential of the attributes rather than simply incoroporating them. I hope that you get to build the T4 someday and we can see the potential of the design.
Was an original T4 built for brochures and pictures?
Wannabe
I said this on another boating website but I will state it here too: The T4 really looks like truly unique design for an offshore V. The vents, steps, the whole design really has an "out of the box-clean sheet of paper" approach to a deep V offshore boating. The only other design I saw that seemed to have this is the Donzi 38 ZR comp. Most of the boats out there seemed to be Deep V's with steps grafted (or cut) into the hull. If you start with a clean sheet and design the hull with vented steps and other design criteria then you are truly using the full potential of the attributes rather than simply incoroporating them. I hope that you get to build the T4 someday and we can see the potential of the design.
Was an original T4 built for brochures and pictures?
Wannabe
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Those Transom Clamps are just SICK !!!
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From: Beautiful Fort Lauderdale www.cheetahcat.com
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Throttles- Cleveland Construction 377 Talon
08 OPA Class 1 National Champion
08 Class 1 Geico Triple Crown Champion
08 OPA High Points Champion
10 OPA Class 1 National Champion ( happy now Ed! )




