Vintage Mono Hull's

Dale that was a Scott McGuffin built boat called the witchcraft out of baytown tx. Bobby Cook, George Harris, Robert Saunders, just to name a few, from the Lone Star Model Boat club, had some really fast witches...

James

Mike what is the reason to move the rudder to the right side????

Here are a few pics of my vintage hulls, they actually all got wet today... OK, OK it was just a passing sprinkle...LOL!







Dusty

Radioactive said:

Here are a few pics of my vintage hulls, they actually all got wet today... OK, OK it was just a passing sprinkle...LOL!

Dusty

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Wow what a beautiful collection of monos great pictures .

That's solid there .....

David

Great nitro boats

whoa! Looks like a few Youngblood mono's mixed in the collection

Ron, I had the 3d's way back when we first met.. Had a 42" Ruff-Stuff SS w/a K&B 7.5 that would give the 60 class fits.. later on I wished I still had that.. I think even with the subsurface drive and the I25X it still would have been competitive.. Had a Gary Girvin 20 hull that seemed to be pretty good at the time, also.. The secret (of which Gary never knew...lol..) was to use the engine rails to straighten out the hook on the bottom.. My later involvement in racing saw me start out with a Boatech 20 mono (that's the one that had guys scratching their heads why and how my K&B 3.5 was beating $250 engines..) Bought a couple of AC hulls after that (one was the 80) Still have those stored in the loft...

I can't believe this thread has gone this long without anyone mentioning one of the fastest and best handling mono hulls ever to hit the surface of the water....

The Husslecraft.....

Built by Leroy Huss in Houston Texas,, they dominated IMPBA district seven and the Nats in the early to mid 80's....

Leroy wanted to build a mono he could drive into the turns at full throttle without ever letting off...

He and many others in the Lone Star Model Boat Club worked countless hours designing and building plugs to make molds for the hulls...

Club members helped by spending countless hours testing and racing only to throw away the molds and start over if Leroy wasn't satisfied with the way the boat ran..

he refused to sell junk....If it wasn't right... it wasn't for sale.

When he was done though and got them right... he had some of the finest and fastest boats around... they ran like they were on rails and were predictable in the turns...

You could drive them inside and outside of others... cross wakes at full throttle... slam them into turns and know they would come out just fine...

I cant tell you how many times on a flying start into turn one, I couldn't even see my boat from all of the roostertails and i just held the line and the boat would come out of the spray and down the back straight.

I moved to Florida for a few months one year and joined the RAM club in Miami...I had an .80 Husselcraft,,, and in that short period of time I won the High points trophy for the state and almost every club race and sanctioned race I attended. I also had a .90 Husslecraft and won the LSMBC high points series one year.

I still own a few of Leroy's hulls and I would pull them out and race them today against anything on the water right now...

I wish Leroy still built them... They were a great hull,,built by a great guy....

I'll try to post up a few pictures of what I have left in the barn...

Ran across this vintage kit produced by Kyosho, the "Transonic 400". A 33.40in length mono hull designed originally for .30ci to .45ci power plant's. The Transonic's were somewhat popular back in the 1970's. I can remember seeing a few of these racing along side Northwind's and other popular designs (in particular at the NAMBA Nat's, San Diego Model Yacht Pond). Pretty neat design of the time.

Darin,

That red metal flake mono looks familiar. I remember the day I met steve Speas in the parking lot of Daryls restaurant and handed him the prototype hull. I told him it wasn't the prettiest boat but it sure worked nice. He took it home and made a plug. He used the top mold from the original 20 Twin Craft hull that was over sized for the new bottom. During the build he used the new mold for the hull bottom and the old 20 boat top for the top. Since the old top was shaped differently and was larger he attached the oversized top to the new bottom and then sanded the sides off. He did that with every hull he made.

Those were fun times.

John

Anyone remember the Challenger hulls built by Joe Lovelace from Atlanta? First time he showed up at a race with them in 1989 there was almost a fist fight. As soon as he unloaded them from the trailer some guy came over and accused him of coping his hull. Pretty good shouting match for a couple minutes! Lol. The boats had a round bottom and used a keel fin.