Thad Allen's Apache + The Birth of the Cheetah Cat
08-02-2013, 05:33 PM
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Ed , I hope everything is well in your neck of the woods , We have a single engine 30 Vee in the works , I will post more as it nears reality !
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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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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?
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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.
