Thad Allen's Apache + The Birth of the Cheetah Cat
05-08-2010 | 10:36 AM
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Here we are at another Shop in Delray the Congress facility was closed and the project was stopped and moved here.after a while we were called back and it was restarted, in this photo My Brother is working on the fairing, I am getting ready to pull it off the fixture.
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05-08-2010 | 10:38 AM
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A lot of pictures are missing. Here the T-4 is off the jig and in a Quick holding Fixture I built that allows me to rotate it and work on any side.
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05-08-2010 | 10:40 AM
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The Important thing now at this stage is to be able to rotate it quickly for inside lamination and fairing work while holding it true.
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05-08-2010 | 10:42 AM
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Finding more pictures: This is the transom of the jig ready to come out ,Note the 4" piece of "I" beam keeping the Plywood dead straight. There is a pile of debris off to the right from stripping out the Jig.
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05-08-2010 | 10:42 AM
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About the straight strakes:
Originally they wrapped them around in an effort to knock the water and spray down,The mentality was to get it quickly before it came over the boat ,but as the the Stem rake increased it was a mute point.
Bertram ran them with the Keel and water flow, The mentality is to always drive it straight when it reenters the water.
I did a 45 Footer for fat Lenard (Don Smith has it now) and my friend Anglo was involved in that straight Strakes as well ,we Both were from the Haggerty school so to say.
Originally they wrapped them around in an effort to knock the water and spray down,The mentality was to get it quickly before it came over the boat ,but as the the Stem rake increased it was a mute point.
Bertram ran them with the Keel and water flow, The mentality is to always drive it straight when it reenters the water.
I did a 45 Footer for fat Lenard (Don Smith has it now) and my friend Anglo was involved in that straight Strakes as well ,we Both were from the Haggerty school so to say.
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05-08-2010 | 10:43 AM
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I will do a Thread on those Boats and get into some detail There was infusion and Wet Bagging involved ,The core was 1" Airex with build ups in some areas. there were "B" models with two canopies, I preferred a Single in those days with tandem seats which I got from a Chick In California (Mastercraft)she did Bahia race trucks.
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05-08-2010 | 10:45 AM
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Front before I added another layer of 1"Core to the bottom,Those vents were built up so when the top piece of core was bagged down they were just gentle humps.
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05-08-2010 | 10:47 AM
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I started the holding fixture by running 2"X12"s under the Hull and raising it slightly with 4 chain falls ,The kid went in with a screw gun and dropped everything free.
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05-08-2010 | 10:48 AM
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The early "Tin" CUV's had no Strakes at all and ran fine, I worked with a old racer Davy Wilson he had a lot of stories and Knew Mr Shead. Then Sammy James Director of Bertram racing he had hours of conversation on it they even drilled a zillion holes in the bottom and did frame by frame 16MM film analyzation, I was told the deck was in a wind tunnel as well.
anyway then while doing a 55 footer for Mr Codomo I got to work with "The Cloud" who ran the Loft at Chris Craft when they were in Pompano back in the day and the the Drawings for Cary among other things truly brilliant guy and a disciple of boat design again the Lift strip/Spray rail combo which is the way he laid out that boat and what I did on that project.
anyway then while doing a 55 footer for Mr Codomo I got to work with "The Cloud" who ran the Loft at Chris Craft when they were in Pompano back in the day and the the Drawings for Cary among other things truly brilliant guy and a disciple of boat design again the Lift strip/Spray rail combo which is the way he laid out that boat and what I did on that project.
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