Boats swapping ends
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Good video about half way through of a test they did to get these boats to spin out.
I love turning my boat hard, glad it doesn't do that.
Good video about half way through of a test they did to get these boats to spin out.
I love turning my boat hard, glad it doesn't do that.
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Good video about half way through of a test they did to get these boats to spin out.
I love turning my boat hard, glad it doesn't do that.
Good video about half way through of a test they did to get these boats to spin out.
I love turning my boat hard, glad it doesn't do that.
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Well as a flats boat they do it for shallow draft.
My old tigershark had big black fins sticking out the side of hull at the back with a slight downward angle. About 18" long and 3" wide. That thing would not spin no matter what you did to it.
My old tigershark had big black fins sticking out the side of hull at the back with a slight downward angle. About 18" long and 3" wide. That thing would not spin no matter what you did to it.
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Look at the hull design, it doesn't take an engineer to figure out that it's going to have twitchy handling characteristic, there is nothing underwater beyond the first 3 or 4 feet of bow. It's not far off from being a swamp boat.
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Ya it looks like when I turn hard in a hydroplane.
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yep,,,,EL PESCADOR boats are crap and unsafe
they been building them for 20 yrs and 000,s of times they have tossed people out
that 1 version was made from a sailboat bottom as why the bow is dragging and boat spins out on the bow
sad part is its the weekend boater that gets hurt
the 1 that is there for a fishing trip or ride not knowing the boat their on
there are some very nice flats boats and then there is the backyard crap
they been building them for 20 yrs and 000,s of times they have tossed people out
that 1 version was made from a sailboat bottom as why the bow is dragging and boat spins out on the bow
sad part is its the weekend boater that gets hurt
the 1 that is there for a fishing trip or ride not knowing the boat their on
there are some very nice flats boats and then there is the backyard crap
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I have a glass shop here in Houston
and have had many of these boats come through here
not a full tunnel boat but yes they cut in a small " pocket " tunnel in the bottom at the last 3-5' for water to rise
to get prop higher out of the water for the shallows
that particular hull in video was the worst of them all
as had a slick bottom on the back half with the front vee with the little keel still there from the boat they poped off of
so when grab some wheel it nose digs and spins the transom from no grip of the rear of the bottom and prop high
and have had many of these boats come through here
not a full tunnel boat but yes they cut in a small " pocket " tunnel in the bottom at the last 3-5' for water to rise
to get prop higher out of the water for the shallows
that particular hull in video was the worst of them all
as had a slick bottom on the back half with the front vee with the little keel still there from the boat they poped off of
so when grab some wheel it nose digs and spins the transom from no grip of the rear of the bottom and prop high
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