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What if any are the rules for cutting vents in cowling and exit vents in rear of hull to extract heat in a Gas Scale. It"s a 7707 hull, Mark and Pack.
Some pictures of my gas scale. It was driven to third place at the 2021 NAMBA Nationals and still holds the NAMBA 2 lap record driven by Kelly Groul. Lots of people would argue that the motor isn't covered enough, But the NAMBA CD's were fine with it.
Lohring Miller
Agreed unless of course we start building 1/5 or even 1/4 scale hulls in order to completely hide the motor. If you’ve ever gone out in a retrieve boat after a 1/667 scale, you know how heavy these things are once they are filled with water, and the difficulty in lifting them in using nothing but your back muscles. It probably makes more sense to tow them in. And with anything bigger, you’d probably have to tow them. Yeah, I think within reason, we should probably be a little more flexible with the large scales. I’m not saying re-write the scale rules to a large extent , but all involved in this hobby need to think about encouraging participants vs discouraging them. If the boat otherwise meets the requirements, maybe let something like this slide.I have an offshore boat that I bought from Chris a while back,, although not a "Scale" per se, Chris did an excellent job of putting vents in the deck to ventilate the heat of the engine and pipe...
He backed up the slots with a dark colored screen which adds to the overall effect of the vents. I think that some dark screen could also be used the same way on a scale
to shadow an opening..
I would think that some leeway needs to be given for the gas scales.. done properly, it in no way detracts from the overall look of the hull.
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