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I just wondering if there are any creative boat builders out there anymore. All I see is the same boats with killer paint jobs... but no creativity. no one editing plans, drawing their own, or jusr making it up as they go along.... is the whole industry just cookie cutter creations ?
I'll start this off with my latest project... A 72" Miss Budweiser. She is scrach built from an enlarged set of Nortonmarine.com plans. She will be powered by twin inline modded Zenoah PUM260, custom hardware and even a gear drive system to increase prop shaft rmp (if I can get it to work)
The new boat i have just done is built from scratch i designed it made the plug made the mold an the finished product I did this because i want something different sick of all the carbon copies out there
But on the same note lot of copies are made because they are popular an in a wierd way its honoring the creator
I think its great to see what you have done good skill shown but once again i can get what you have as a glass copy you have basically copied a design an not created your own which seems to make your original question non relevent
This is my plug hand made an designed not copied
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Heres my 50" deep V mono. Built the lower hull from elongated plans, designed the upper deck as I went along. Being a high school shop teacher, this origionally was a class project. I eventually used the origional as a plug creating my own molds and have been building fiberglass painted hulls since last year. I've been calling this the Dreamin' CS. (Screen name, plus my 8 month old sons name, Cameron Scott). Several boats have been sold to local hobby shops and other members here.
-Scott
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That boat is awesome ignore what a certain person said you have scratch built that boat,you built it from plans that you enlarged so what.You copied a design but you built it from scratch,you didnt steal the design you copied it from freely available plans.Ive just finnished a moulding and some boats i partly copied from an existing hull i had which i made changes to.Sure i copied part of the design but as this hull is no longer in production and i made changes its now mine .Heres some pics of the plug and the mould and two boats finnished . Mart
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here's another one af Dana's, this boat hit a dock square on the nose at full thottle and it only peeled the top and bottom apart 1/4" I must say they are very well designed boats. They are a little tricky to get dialed in but when you do it's adrivers boat. Thanks again for building it, as you can tell I love mine.
< Message edited by Mr.Freeze -- 8/31/2008 12:42:34 AM >
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Here's a boat I built fromscaling down the plans for a 15' 1950s era sport boat, it's a 45" (1/4 scale) wooden rocket hydroplane. it looks like a crackerbox, but the stepped hull classes it as a hydroplane.
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.Heres some pics of the plug and the mould and two boats finnished . 
,stunning boats mate especially the aspect wow!! 
