AquaRacer
A tunnel-hull racing boat you can build
- Category
- Mechanix Illustrated
- Designer
- Hal Kelly
- Published
- Mechanix Illustrated, February 1975, p. 44
A build-it-yourself tunnel-hull racer modeled on the Scotti Craft and Molinari boats that chased world outboard speed records, designed to be competitive in J class stock outboard racing at a fraction of the $5,000 price of a factory boat. A bigger, race-ready follow-up to Hal Kelly's AquaRod.
Specifications
- Construction
- Tunnel hull: 1/4 in. plywood sponsons over battens and ribs, bronze nails; afterplane
- Power
- J class stock outboard (largest production engine)
Downloads
Plan sheets 5
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