First 3S "Kneeler" Race

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Jerry Dunlap

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On Saturday, April 1, three 3S 20" "Kneeler" outboard hydroplanes raced at Centralia, Washington at the Lacey RC Hobbies Spring Regatta. Marty Knox, Bill Mowatt, and myself raced the WOF(wood over foam) model hydroplanes powered by Hobby King Formula 3, 3,000 kV outboard motors. A 30 second clock was used to start the race and the boats milled around the start/finish buoy till the start. Once the race started, the boats ran 1/2 laps around the left corner and the start/finish buoy. Each heat was scheduled for 6 laps, but often went past that because of the high "Fun Factor." After 4 heats, it was decided that we were all winners.

JD
 
Very cool.......I love the kneelers and would like to see a fun class like this catch on.

Jerry are those your design?
 
Love the R-75, look ma no hands.
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Jerry, when I get to work tomorrow I'll get all the info from you on this, my smart phone isn't today...haha
 
On Saturday, April 1, three 3S 20" "Kneeler" outboard hydroplanes raced at Centralia, Washington at the Lacey RC Hobbies Spring Regatta. Marty Knox, Bill Mowatt, and myself raced the WOF(wood over foam) model hydroplanes powered by Hobby King Formula 3, 3,000 kV outboard motors. A 30 second clock was used to start the race and the boats milled around the start/finish buoy till the start. Once the race started, the boats ran 1/2 laps around the left corner and the start/finish buoy. Each heat was scheduled for 6 laps, but often went past that because of the high "Fun Factor." After 4 heats, it was decided that we were all winners.

JD
Jerry

Did you ever build one for a 3.5 cc outboard ?

Alex
 
On Saturday, April 1, three 3S 20" "Kneeler" outboard hydroplanes raced at Centralia, Washington at the Lacey RC Hobbies Spring Regatta. Marty Knox, Bill Mowatt, and myself raced the WOF(wood over foam) model hydroplanes powered by Hobby King Formula 3, 3,000 kV outboard motors. A 30 second clock was used to start the race and the boats milled around the start/finish buoy till the start. Once the race started, the boats ran 1/2 laps around the left corner and the start/finish buoy. Each heat was scheduled for 6 laps, but often went past that because of the high "Fun Factor." After 4 heats, it was decided that we were all winners.

JD
Jerry

Did you ever build one for a 3.5 cc outboard ?

Alex

I probably built 7 or 9 for 3.5 engines.

JD
 
The picture of the yellow boat looks like a lot of header length to me. I would think for an outboard hydro would be running a header a lot shorter than that. ?

-Carl
 
These things sure are fun! Hope fully I will be able to figure out how to keep it from torquing over.

Marty
 
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