Pantera 41' Launched
06-08-2010 | 06:27 AM
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THIS IS NOT AN OLDER MOLD. This is a newly tooled and impproved version of the original 41. The original lines and measurements came directly from the Warpath race boat, but was done the old fashioned way. Then the tooling was built from foam based on those measurements. There were some major flaws in the way the company did the tooling and Steve 1 and his brothers did some serious re-work to get the tooling straight as the so-called tooling work was poorly done. The tooling was a major job since we straightened the bottom and sharpened the edges - the way it was originally done it incorporated ALL the flaws of the original 41...so we fixed, straightened and sharpened EVERYTHING.
This included "inches" of additional height to make the bottom straight and level as the original tooling had a bad rocker in it.
It was all done as a non-stepped hull with a new and improved straight bottom, NO ROCKER!!!
Then Pantera bought the tooling and made it their own by adding a stepped insert to modify and improve the running surface - this IS NOT the T4 that Steve 1 was tooling up, it is the original straight bottom molded 41 that was to be a retro version of the original for the new Thad Allen Apache.
hope this helps!
This included "inches" of additional height to make the bottom straight and level as the original tooling had a bad rocker in it.
It was all done as a non-stepped hull with a new and improved straight bottom, NO ROCKER!!!
Then Pantera bought the tooling and made it their own by adding a stepped insert to modify and improve the running surface - this IS NOT the T4 that Steve 1 was tooling up, it is the original straight bottom molded 41 that was to be a retro version of the original for the new Thad Allen Apache.
hope this helps!
This does help...thank you... now what engineer deisigned the step location..thanks again .. Jeff
06-08-2010 | 10:00 AM
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With 1050hp and 10500#, 83mph gives a hull factor of 265 and 95 gives a hull factor of 300. 265 is pretty good for a deep vee ... 300 is off the charts ... more like a world class cat number. At 275, you get 87mph so I'm going with 87+/-1mph for this setup.
06-08-2010 | 11:29 AM
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seriously... Id be happy anywhere near 90.. properly set up for getting on plane and decent midrange pull.. The top speed number really doesn't concern me (ok I'm getting old and having a hard time dealing with it) vs how the boats attitude will be in the rough stuff on a PR when Joe Blow comes by me in Boat X and is all over the place while I'm sippin my Grape Ne-High http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink3935.html
06-08-2010 | 01:40 PM
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THIS IS NOT AN OLDER MOLD. This is a newly tooled and impproved version of the original 41. The original lines and measurements came directly from the Warpath race boat, but was done the old fashioned way. Then the tooling was built from foam based on those measurements. There were some major flaws in the way the company did the tooling and Steve 1 and his brothers did some serious re-work to get the tooling straight as the so-called tooling work was poorly done. The tooling was a major job since we straightened the bottom and sharpened the edges - the way it was originally done it incorporated ALL the flaws of the original 41...so we fixed, straightened and sharpened EVERYTHING.
This included "inches" of additional height to make the bottom straight and level as the original tooling had a bad rocker in it.
It was all done as a non-stepped hull with a new and improved straight bottom, NO ROCKER!!!
Then Pantera bought the tooling and made it their own by adding a stepped insert to modify and improve the running surface - this IS NOT the T4 that Steve 1 was tooling up, it is the original straight bottom molded 41 that was to be a retro version of the original for the new Thad Allen Apache.
hope this helps!
This included "inches" of additional height to make the bottom straight and level as the original tooling had a bad rocker in it.
It was all done as a non-stepped hull with a new and improved straight bottom, NO ROCKER!!!
Then Pantera bought the tooling and made it their own by adding a stepped insert to modify and improve the running surface - this IS NOT the T4 that Steve 1 was tooling up, it is the original straight bottom molded 41 that was to be a retro version of the original for the new Thad Allen Apache.
hope this helps!
Hey, that does help! Thanks for giving the straight facts on the build. Very refreshing instead of the all too familiar practice of secrets and rumors.
Again, great job. Boat looks fantastic! Hope to see it in person some day.
Now, post up some more pics!!!!
