Thanks, I agree this not one of the best looking boats but it is very quick, the owner now wants me to mod the engine to a Zen 7 I don't know why the prototype reached 69mph on a standard Zen 260. The only mods I did were the position of the engine, shaft height and offset as these hulls tend to flip above 60mph, but as you know speed is not the only thing that wins races. I am very tempted to make a new hull, longer and narrow the beam by about 3” and CMB 90 power.
I do not race anymore due to my age, my reactions are not what they use to be.
I would like to know what present day clubs are like, when my son and I use to race in the late eighties our local club was very competitive, I raced in C class Omega CMB 90 powered and scratch built boat with converted 32cc Maccullock chain saw engine Spark Ignition (as it was known then) both very quick for that era, my son raced in B class with a geared boat. We won so many trophies between us it ended up that nobody would race if we turned up and some members even resorted to sabotage, our radios and fuel , which
ultimately ended in fisticuffs, but they picked on the wrong person an ex paratrooper so that ended our association with our local club but not our enthusiasm for model power boats.
Mick