Recent content by Rich Jones

That turn fin is a beast!

Nice build thread as usual. I referred to your Slingshot thread multiple time during that build. I will follow suit with this one. I love that you added parts references and supplier contacts on this one. It’s a great addition for those newer to the hobby.

100% agree Mike. Sharing ideas, especially with younger folks (the future of our hobby), is part of our path forward!

This is good stuff, thank you Phil!

Cool! Can you explain the dipping process? Certainly that whole design on the cowl wasn’t from a hydrodip? I thought all you could do with that process was swirls and what not. I’m fascinated by this!

Another one out the door! Good job!

A lot going on with that paint scheme. Nice job!

Yeah that’s a good plan. There’s nothing worse than spending all the time to make a boat look nice and then having it get dinged up when it inevitably blows over or hooks or whatever because your setup isn’t dialed in. It’s a lot easier to make any needed repairs or changes without worrying...

One of my favorite boats and drivers all time. That is one big boat. I would recommend having towing capability or maybe a pole with a hook on it in your retrieve boat. Gas Scales are a foot or more shorter than that one and they are an absolute back breaker to lift over the side of a retrieve...

Hard to believe 2001 was 23 years ago. Where does time go?

Wow that stuff must have been in a cool dry place! Looks good!

I currently have flex shafts in both of my Backlashes. They will be scary fast with SFD when I get around to retrofitting them. I’ve seen the above boat run at our lake it is impressive.

I bought this one on Amazon after reading reviews etc… It is LVLP: https://a.co/d/dvAkWQP I believe it did a great job but I had way too much paint flowing and got a couple runs which was my inexperience . Overall it sprays real nice. I sprayed clear with the 1.3 tip. It would probably...

That’s a lot of work. You make it look easy!

I feel ya on that. Sometimes the painting process just goes on and on and just when you think it’s done, you get runs, crinkles, orange peel, whatever… I had a couple runs recently on a paint job. I’ll deal with them at some point but I just couldn’t do it anymore right now. It looks really...