Customer Photo Gallery
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This is a
link to the Champion I built from your fame kit. Stretched it out
to 11 feet and built it as a single cockpit in lieu of double. The
engine is a Mark10 power head on a cut KE tower and a coned utility foot
(16/21 gears). In the video my son is getting the feel of it but
by the end of the summer was running it full open most of the time.
Tops out at about 30 mph as configured.
Best
regards,
Frank Tamanko |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKbbHglWO_M |
| Nov 20,
2006
Hello Darrell! The boat is finally finished with 11 coats of varnish, hardware all mounted, and waiting to go to Florida for an AOMC meet and performance trials. I look forward to using the boat and having a great deal of pleasure from it. Thank you for all your help. Steve Cutter, Meadows of Dan, VA |
B Airborne with 4mm "Ribbon Grain" Khaya plywood on the deck and sides. |
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| "Jinx" Built by Charles Scott |
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| Darrell, finally here's a couple of pics of the
Jinx I built from your kit. It runs excellent and its a lot of fun, Thanks Phil Gottenborg Galesburg, Illinois |
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| Dr. Roger Moscoso from Ecuador built this Hungary Gypo from plans. |
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| Casey Russell with his Sorensen C Stock Runabout at Yelm, WA. |
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| Stephen Cox racing his Champion BU (#54) |
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| Kyle Lewis racing his Jackal J Runabout that he and his dad built from a kit. |
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| Bruce Russell's replica Calkins Craft DU |
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| Daren Goehring putting the finishing touches on his Champion BU |
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| Dave Scott from Canada built this D Stock Hydro |
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| Charles Peet with one of two Champion BU's he is building. |
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| Classic "Jinx" built by Tyler Westerling, Kingsburg CA |
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| A Stock Hydro "Little Rascal" built by John Myers for his daughter Kay. |
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| "Pocket Money" built by Jeff and Ben Truly. A father and son team. Jeff races the boat in C Stock Hydro and Ben in OSY 400. |
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| Larry Downs and his Sorensen D Stock Hydro |
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| Lester Orense of the Philippines built a "Pocket
Money" hydro from plans.
Update: Lester has replaced the Yamaha with a Fuji Para-mutual motor and gained 15 mph in speed. He is running the boat on Taal Lake which is the mouth of a volcano about 30 miles south of Manila. He would like to contact others from the Philippines who have interest in outboard hydroplanes. Phone no. +(46) 477-1324, Country code ++63. lester.orense@microtune.com |
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CSR "Hungry Gipo" built by Eric Orchard, Ontario, Canada
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We built the boat at St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary High School, London,
Ontario, as an after school club. You never know where your plans are
going to end-up or how you will effect people in a positive growth
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direction. I paid for all the materials and plans personally and
the students worked on the boat once
a week for a few hours. This gave them a chance to be
involved in building a larger more time consuming project. Two other students were involved but are not pictured.
Many other students are now interested in building boat models and I
hooked another teacher who just finished a canoe.
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| "Pocket Money", built by Morris Ford, Coopersville, MI |
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| "Gypsy Joe", built by Rick Dadd, Grass Lake, MI
Rick, won the 2007 Top O' Michigan marathon national championship with this boat! |
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Classic "Jinx" under construction by Bob Myers, Camp Connell, CA
Bob wanted a BU when he was 12 years old, now he finally has one. Bob won the 2000 West Coast Classic B Championship in Sutherlin OR with his boat. |
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| "Hungry Gipo" built by Bill Carter, Belvedere, Il |
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| Now and then something other than a race boat will come out of our shop, this skiff is owned by Fred Westerling, Kingsburg CA |
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The End of the "Killer
Tomato" by Patrick Gleason
