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Les Laming

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Once again I need Help identifying this boat. It is 27" long and 14" wide. It is made of fiberglass. The cowl is missing. It appears the cowl should be 3 1/2" wide and 13 1/2" long. I know it is not a Hot shot or a Prather. The transom has never been drilled for the motor mount.
I have 4 questions.1) What is it? 2)Does anyone have the correct cowl for it? 3) Is it for a 21 OB? 4)Does anyone want to buy it?
Thanks again for the help. Les
 

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Les.
Wow...I went back and was looking at the first tunnel boat you posted and was comparing both boats....my first got to is the bottom sponson....it has the slight overhang on the bottom....I only know of dumas doing this ..by the shape and size it looks Suprising like another Dumas hotshot...both boats if I recall are in the 27" length and of .21 size...it seems some where in the 33" +- makes the jump to the larger .45 size hulls...but I say...you sure are coming into some sweet pieces of RC boating history...dumas was always good at including there logo fiberglassed into the hull perhaps with a small mirror on a stick its still either in the transom area...or just under the cockpit area.
If I wasn't in the situation im currently in...I would be gladly to purchase both hulls....they really do run well with a stock K&B 3.5 OB..
 
Thanks again Robert,I will take a pic of the boats side by side tomorrow. The first boat has a recessed transom but this one doesn't. The hatch for the first boat is too short for the boat I just posted. I was not able to find the Dumas logo on the second boat.
 
Les..
The folks at Dumas in Arizona do answer the phone and take calls...unfortunately not all the time..but I have chatted with them on multiple occasions about a 1/8 scale Atlas van lines wood hull I have and they were very helpful...perhaps you could shoot them a message or phone call, they will ask for pics about the hulls you have.
Thanks for the opportunity to help you out, and if for some reason you still have these hulls in the future just message me and perhaps we can work something out...
 
Les.
You can make one from foam and then glass it...then you can put your personal spin on it.
 
I am making one from 1/32" plywood that I will glass when it is formed. Because I live in Michigan it won't be painted until Spring.
 
Lohring, I'm certain the abs cowls will not work as the old glass hotshot21 was much larger than the abs ones were. the Pic link I provided is a totally stock glass hotshot 21, I do not know when dumas discontinued this hull (however i believe it was in the mid '80's). You can see the cowl is very basic and would be easy to reproduce in glass over foam or even carved balsa. I believe they started production of these in the mid/late '70's and was one of the earlier hulls available for the K&B 3.5 when it still had the slide valve exhaust throttle, no carb, and short skeg. Dumas had a modification publication also on this hull to inset the motor mount area of the transom around 1-1/2" or so which would explain the inset on your other hull. Also these hulls were not epoxy glass, they were laid up with polyester resin (Prather was the only company I'm aware of using epoxy layups back in that era, if you go to the media gallery on my profile the orange and yellow hull is a Prather Fast Cat which was Prather's second generation 3.5cc tunnel).
 
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Thanks to everyone for the help. Because I was not able to find a cowl, I designed one using 1/32 ply, balsa and a lot of imagination. Everything will get primed and painted in the Spring.
 

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