wow.....great build! thanks for sharing!

I'm sure you know about this but I don't think it has been posted; a team from across the pond is going to try to break the Atlantic record in 2018.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...tank-fuel.html

It will be fun to watch you beat them!:champs:

I remember reading about this. I believe they are attempting win the Blue Riband, which is awarded to passenger liners. Pretty aggressive trying to pull it off with a single tank of fuel with a ($22 mil) 112' CF cat.

Is all of this work going down at skater? Any way to volunteer/help out?

Yeah- Bring COOKIES.............................

Mine will be a passenger liner. Maybe I can get someone to pay to be a passenger to fund the trip like Richard Branson did.

Think if I had $22 mil to try to build something instead of the $8.50 an hour I make working the counter at McDonalds. In reality I am building this boat on a really cheep budget, trying to do as much of it as I can myself, using parts off my other boats, and trying to get some of the parts sponsored for the recognition of there parts being in it. We had originally planned on building a 86' Skater with turbines and diesels but it was going to cost around 8 million and I only had an extra 7 million laying around and could not find any sponsors to kick in. There are good and bad things to being a bigger boat. The only good thing is at some point with wave height you can still run 40 MPH where we may not be able to. Otherwise the smaller boat has less stuff to break, less logistical problems with fuel needed, can run a lot faster, ect. We had not actually planned on trying for that record but the more stuff I read about it and videos I watch on youtube I think we are going to try to get that record too. Its a little past our range we could do non stop so we would probably plan on two fuel stops and run light and fast to the first one off Nova Scotia, then full and slower through the rougher waters making it almost all the way across then get a little more fuel a few hundred miles from the finish line and run in fast if the seas were ok.

Team 'Murica!

I probably can't bring people into skater to help work on it but anyone interested in helping PM me and I will see what your skill set is and see where it may be able to help.

Once we get most of it done and its at my shop or we are going somewhere to do a run and someone wants to help there more then welcome.

And they have to bring Monica's cookies when they show up.

How many fuel/cookie stops are you planning ?????

Refuelling at sea is tricky

When the Arneson was turned all the way and trimmed up it would hit the tunnel extension. We decided to modify the tunnel extension instead of limiting the stoke of the arneson. I need to be able to trim the Arneson all the way up to make a crazy big rooster tail, right?

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