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Tiny Speedboats
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:39:17 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:23:20 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: That's nothing, there was a ten foot three point hydroplane on Spirt Lake Iowa, back in the fifties. Had an eighteen horse motor. My brother and I had a homebuilt 3 point hydro in the early 60s. It was 8 ft long and scary fast with an old Merc 7 1/2 on it. Control was a big issue and it required a bit of body english to get it turning properly. Freeboard was just about non-existent, with a 1 ft wake enough to submarine it. In Norwalk Harbor there were always a bunch of home made little hydro's. They used to have plans in the back of magazines that told how to make one using two sheets of plywood. It didn't take much power to make them fly. Lots of kids built them in woodshop class. |
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