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Boat: 14' Sorensen DU kit (Champion hull design with Calkins Craft bow design) that I built.

Engine: 1959 Merc MK58 block with KA24A carbs. Engine internals (balanced to within 1/2 gram), carbs (.069 jets) and magneto (.350 max advance) by Phil McDaniel, Myrtle Beach, SC. Paint and exterior by Mouw. Parts from East Coast and about everywhere else. All of Cc on this email were very generous in providing much needed advice to this first time builder.

Jim Mouw

Salem, SC

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.

"Jinx" Built by Charles Scott

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
Dr. Roger Moscoso from Ecuador built this Hungary Gypo from plans.
Casey Russell with his Sorensen C Stock Runabout at Yelm, WA.
Stephen Cox racing his Champion BU (#54)
Kyle Lewis racing his Jackal J Runabout that he and his dad built from a kit.
Bruce Russell's replica Calkins Craft DU
Daren Goehring putting the finishing touches on his Champion BU
Dave Scott from Canada built this D Stock Hydro
Charles Peet with one of two Champion BU's he is building.

Classic "Jinx" built by Tyler Westerling, Kingsburg CA

A Stock Hydro "Little Rascal" built by John Myers for his daughter Kay.
"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.
Larry Downs and his Sorensen D Stock Hydro
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

CSR "Hungry Gipo" built by Eric Orchard, Ontario, Canada

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

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.

"Pocket Money", built by Morris Ford, Coopersville, MI

"Gypsy Joe", built by Rick Dadd, Grass Lake, MI

Rick, won the 2007 Top O' Michigan marathon national championship with this boat!

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.

"Hungry Gipo" built by Bill Carter, Belvedere, Il

Now and then something other than a race boat will come out of our shop, this skiff is owned by Fred Westerling, Kingsburg CA

The End of the "Killer Tomato" by Patrick Gleason

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