The Birth of a Race Boat
 

The next 30 days will be filled with long hours and an extreme amount of dedication from some hardworking men, but the end result will be worth it. Outerlimits is going to update the progress of the Birth of a Race Boat. The deck went into the mold a few days ago, so literally this boat will go from a 55 gallon drum (or two) to the Key West Pits in roughly 30 days. We would like to thank Joe Sgro for the opportunity to build this boat for him.

As you can tell, a very busy week so far. The deck is ready to accept the cockpit liner, and the hull is taking shape. Now it's time to bring on the Carbon Fiber.

More Carbon Please.

Lookin good OL! Another SV 43 comin right up!

A little vacuum bagging never hurts now and then.

We needed a challenge, and since this one just left today, we figured why not build another one.

very nice

sweet thanks for the pics

Sweet, awesome to see the boat taking shape.

In this pic, it looks like the rollers below the roll of CF have resin sitting in them. Is that used to pre-wet the cloth before it goes into the hull? Is that typical for CF construction and is it used for regular composite lay-up as well (i.e. 1708 and vinylester)?

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And I take it respirators aren't needed with this type of resin???

the rollers are used to impregnate the material with the proper amounts of resin. As for the respirators, very low odor / fume release, the resin is in the cloth, and not applied in the hull, providing uniform distribution.

Very cool to see a project like that take shape. Thanks for the pics. Hope to see the boat in Key West! :drink:

Thanks for sharing! Cant wait to see the finished product :cool:

Tell Joe we'll be in KW to help him put stickers on again if he needs us :kiss::D

Extremely Fantastic & Beautiful Boat !!!!!!!!!!

Keep All The Good Work Up Ol.

Rob.B.

Great shots Fred!

Very nice layup.

Do you have any of the stringers being set?

Are the chief engines coming in the boat?

Lookin great, thanks for posting! :ernaehrung004:

no Chief motors. The power plants will be in a subsequent update. I have to drag this out for 30 days, I can't reveal all the secrets up front.

:angry-smiley-038: :drink:

Thank you for the opportunity to follow along.

More For Today. Adding more Carbon to the deck, coring the other side of the hull.

More...

Thanks FRED!!!!!

Proffesional work you OL Guys.

Will Outerlimits be making the engines themselves?

That is how rumors get started...........

Ohh Boy , fred ... you are really gettin' everybody hooked on ths now ...

Awesome thread, good to see the process from start to finish.
Thanks for sharing, its greatly appreciated.

On a side note, the OL delivered to Lake Mead looked awesome - very classy color scheme.

Thank you Member. That 44 came out spectacular. I will keep the updates going

Some final vacuum bagging, next stop in the oven you go!!!!

Will this Beauty's power be:
Whipple Supercharged Teague Marine engines?

The Whipple Charged part is correct........

Boost Power?

;)

thanks for the update Fred, love the process.. Like stated here by many, including myself, you guys do great work. Only question... Why Teague Motors.

He just agreed to the whipple part, not the teague.

thanks for the clarification..

a few long nights to get that ready for Key West, cant imagine the man hours that will go into this over the next few weeks, cant wait to see it in person next month!

:eureka: JC

All I can say is Joe and Jeff are good friends so my guess would be JC:party-smiley-004: