Hey Mel,

Could you tell what color the original gel was?

Thanks.

Great Restoration, Post more pics of the process !!

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First Shevixen,sorry about posting them picts but at the time they were the only ones i could get to post.24 Degre,the jel was kind a dirty looking gold,you can get a better look at it on these picts im posting.When i got her she had about 4 coats of blk. bottom paint on her with a layer of barnicles between each coat.The only thing we could do was send her out an get her glass bead blasted.Thats when we found out the jel was so bad we were going to have to grind it all off up to the matt. In the one pict of the accident you can see the dumb way i had the seating set up with the throttle man 3ft from the port side,worked ok if you didnt stuff it,but then that 3ft darn near killed me.

cool picks. Thanks for sharing.:D

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Got them kinda mixed up

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That one were she thought she was a bird was a 2002 pict and shouldnt have been in here, but this is still new to me.

A few more i just got resized
 

If you go back to the 1 st set of picts that blk boat is the Magnum that Magnum27 rebuilt a couple years ago.I got 1 more i will put on the next post,my favoriite.

mel.....AWSOME pics keep them coming....

I got a few questiones for ya, Yours is a bravo boat if i remember right......Where is your x demension and where did you end up mounting your fuel tanks....The only reason i ask is your boat flies nice and level with what looks like like little tab input.......The pic above tells the story.......

Last of 2000 2001 picts
 

These should finish 2001,at the OPRA race in Lauderdale.Never wanted to race St.Pete or Key West.It was so rough in Lauderdale the coast guard shut it down after 4 laps.The blk mag was the only one to make all 5 and he split his top deck,blew his drive and was dead in the water without a tow boat around. My guys thrue him a rope and towed him in before he wound up on the beach.

X dimension.
 

No Cig,i run 16 an half on the X with the Bravo.I mounted 2 40gal tanks between the bulkhead in front of the front seat to the bulkhead in front of the eng,i figured by going with 1 eng instead of 2 she was going to be nose heavy with all that fuel up front.First i hated it,i felt it was to light up front because when you got up arround 80 and hit even a 3ft wave she would head for the moon as you can see in that first pict.That pict wasnt the one we wreck on,it was the next one when i turnd my head to see if we were clear of the other boats and move over to the inside. According to the news man in the chopper she went completly verticle,he got so upset he couldnt take a pict tell it was all over and seen we were still upright.that race was on july 2 i believe and 14 days later i finally got home,it was the midle of aug before i could do anything about repairing Vixen,but i had a lot to figure out what the problems were and it wasnt weight and bal.When i got done i had a boat that flew right.Heres 1 more pict of her first race in St.Cloud in 2001 and one of dave an me when we took the two boat for lunch a couple weeks ago.