Okay, it's time to resurrect this thread. Now that things are starting to slow down a bit, meaning I have a chance to actually stay home for the rest of the year, I finally am getting time to work on the boats. As for the radio issue on the Elam, I ordered a new radio system for it and have had no issues with it since. From what I can tell, the old rreceiver was getting hot and would shut down. Another problem was the rudder servo's I was using worked fine, that is until I got over half throttle. At that point they stalled and wouldn't turn the boat. A high torque digital took care of that so now my Elam turns like it's on rails. Let me rephrase that, it did until I ran through some milfoil at the Columbia Cup last month. The rudder linkage now needs repairing and the flex shaft tube needs to be replace after being torn out of the boat and snapped in two
As for the three builds, some things have changed. The Notre Dame has been shelved for a while and replaced with a 1985 Executone. This boat was the sister to the Atlas that Chip Hanouer drove in 1982-83. I've managed to get the sponson insides epoxied to the transom and done some work on the right sponson framing. The Oberto hasn't been touched due to some redesign work I've found it needed after doing some serious examining of the full sized boat. All the left side frames have to be redone to correct a major issue. I've started working on a replacement hull for the Elam, have part of the framing done on both sponsons on it. That brings me to the Pak. I've managed to get the engine bay walls installed and epoxied frames 2 and 3 into place. This was followed by gluing in the 1/4" stringers to the bottom of the engine bay walls and then epoxying on the rear bottom panel. Today's work has been to glue together the framing for the right sponson. Once again, I found issues with the frames so there will be some modifying involved before I can attach the sponson side and bottom. I'll try to get some shots uploaded tomorrow showing what's been done