Thad Allen's Apache + The Birth of the Cheetah Cat
08-02-2013 | 05:27 PM
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Ed , the game is about "Apparent" surface area and imposing a running attitude , Imagine we cut the boat in 3 or4 pieces and reassemble the thing with the rear sections angled down 2-3 Degrees to the aft , the whole thing is about Friction and trying to lose some as the boat gains speed the running surface goes further to the transom , We have higher pressure in a smaller area of friction is the result , the attitude ? some boats like 3 degrees angle of attack , again up to the cleverness of the designer in shedding the affinity of that glob of water wanting to Cling to the boat hull , Speed , Fuel economy , and longevity of everything in the propulsion system will benefit Greatly .
I actually understood a little bit of that! LOL!
08-02-2013 | 05:58 PM
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08-04-2013 | 11:33 AM
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Steve,
I don't imagine the 19 your boys are building will look like this one. It was a Morelli and Melvin 19' design we built with core cel and epoxy/glass skins in maybe 1995?? The owner changed boats often, but he told me he will never sell this one. He had another builder 5 years later build a smaller one with verticle tunnel walls and it threw him out of the boat in a turn the first time he tried it.
All the early cats had symetrical hulls, but you see the off shore boats now with asymmetric hulls. How come?
I don't imagine the 19 your boys are building will look like this one. It was a Morelli and Melvin 19' design we built with core cel and epoxy/glass skins in maybe 1995?? The owner changed boats often, but he told me he will never sell this one. He had another builder 5 years later build a smaller one with verticle tunnel walls and it threw him out of the boat in a turn the first time he tried it.
All the early cats had symetrical hulls, but you see the off shore boats now with asymmetric hulls. How come?
08-04-2013 | 01:06 PM
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From: Beautiful Fort Lauderdale www.cheetahcat.com
Steve,
I don't imagine the 19 your boys are building will look like this one. It was a Morelli and Melvin 19' design we built with core cel and epoxy/glass skins in maybe 1995?? The owner changed boats often, but he told me he will never sell this one. He had another builder 5 years later build a smaller one with verticle tunnel walls and it threw him out of the boat in a turn the first time he tried it.
All the early cats had symetrical hulls, but you see the off shore boats now with asymmetric hulls. How come?
I don't imagine the 19 your boys are building will look like this one. It was a Morelli and Melvin 19' design we built with core cel and epoxy/glass skins in maybe 1995?? The owner changed boats often, but he told me he will never sell this one. He had another builder 5 years later build a smaller one with verticle tunnel walls and it threw him out of the boat in a turn the first time he tried it.
All the early cats had symetrical hulls, but you see the off shore boats now with asymmetric hulls. How come?
10-13-2019 | 06:36 PM
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Here is my personal Flats Boat 18 Feet all up bagging Dow 470-36 Resin 1'airex core 450# hull and deck, 37 Gallon composite tank in the Bow, the polling platform is also composite as it's legs witch were hi density Foam made in a kind of an oval shape with unidirectional s bagged around them ,I had built a large box spar inside between them to keep everything honest.
The Gelcoat was a white fade to blue on the sides,the boot stripe is a flop of that, white Bottom, Cool boat 50+ with a 70.
The colors remember this was from the Miami Vice days
This Boat was from a panel built Plug.
The Gelcoat was a white fade to blue on the sides,the boot stripe is a flop of that, white Bottom, Cool boat 50+ with a 70.
The colors remember this was from the Miami Vice days
This Boat was from a panel built Plug.
