Blue Streak
Class B stock utility racer on a hydro-conic bottom
- Category
- Outboard Runabouts
- Designer
- William D. Jackson
- Published
- Science and Mechanics, August 1953, p. 151
- Craft Print
- 185
A prop-riding runabout on a hydro-conic bottom for stock utility races with Class B outboards. With a Mercury Hurricane it clocked 39 mph, and 46 mph with a Quicksilver lower unit. Only two frames and a transom make it easy to build, and materials cost about $85 in 1953.
Specifications
- Length
- 11 ft
- Capacity
- Up to 3 persons
- Construction
- Two frames and transom with stressed-skin plywood planking
- Power
- Class B (10 hp / 20 cu. in.) outboard; 39 mph, 46 mph with a Quicksilver lower unit
Downloads
Plan sheets 6
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