BobBonahoom
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"Andy got it all right."Wow - you guys are good! Andy got it all right. I think Ed introduced flex shafts to the world about that time also. Remember how we started them with a piece of leather.
Wow! I was still in small diapers in 1958. I probably didn't weigh any more than your Miss Thriftway. I love the photo of your Dragonfly. They are cool looking boats. I would build another one if I had the time. I am frantically looking for the only photo I have of my Dragonfly. It weighed 9 pounds rtr. I later cut it up into an outrigger and installed a Supertigre X-40 with OPS 40 pipe. It weight 5.5 pounds and was FAST. Handled good too. My next boat was a 40 Gator with the same X-40 in it for power. At 7 pounds is was not as fast.I built my first boat in 1958. It was a Miss Thriftway with an McCoy 35 engine. I used and escapment on the rudder and a vacuum tube single channel transmitter. It had a single speed with and the rudder moved C-R-C-L-C...etc. You had to remember how many times you hit the button on the TX. Now that was crazy!
And just how old were you in 73 Andy? I think you were just a baby then! Bob that boat looks like it was never run.Ed Hughey. Us old guys should not be allowed to play this "guess what boat game". LOL
Engine is a Supertigre G-40.
Rudder is Marine Specialties.
Prop is a plastic Octura Z55.
Water line is Perfect brand large.
Hobbypoxy paint.
....and whoever has not experienced the JOY of installing 18 radio box screws has not lived. lol
Oh, and the photo is inverted too!
Hi Andy,I began building my fiirst boat in 1973. I Dragonfly 40. Finished it and ran it for the first time in 1974. I also started it with a leather boot lace. Used the leather up until 1979 when Strobe Lander handed me a belt. I said thank you! Now if I could just afford the starter. LOL
Hi John, no I never had a Logghe rigger. My first rigger was a Wing Ding I think. Yes, Ed's boat was self skinning foam made in a horseshoe pattern. The center section was wood that fit into the horseshoe foam part. I thing either Ed or his brother Dee sold a product called Dial-a-Prop where you would make your own props as you described. I recall John Bridge starting his Lead Sled (geared together ST 67 engines) using an automobile starter motor applied to the propeller. I don't think I ever saw the Lead Sled lose a race.Hi Bob,
Didn't you have one of the first "Logghe" 40 riggers? Did that Hughey boat have the polyurethane self skinning foam construction? I remember one year maybe 69 or 70 when I was first getting started and Ed was in Detroit for the Mini Gold Cup and was using his flex drive, speedometer cable, and had a 40 mounted in a frame with a flexshaft and prop and actually used the prop like a saw to cut a 2X4 to prove to John Bridge is was safe and strong. Ed's boat had a horseshoe shaped rudder mounted under the hull and props were stamped and solder to a threaded hub and screwed on the shaft. I saw him do a 360 loop with it that year.
John
Hi Bob,
Didn't you have one of the first "Logghe" 40 riggers? Did that Hughey boat have the polyurethane self skinning foam construction? I remember one year maybe 69 or 70 when I was first getting started and Ed was in Detroit for the Mini Gold Cup and was using his flex drive, speedometer cable, and had a 40 mounted in a frame with a flexshaft and prop and actually used the prop like a saw to cut a 2X4 to prove to John Bridge is was safe and strong. Ed's boat had a horseshoe shaped rudder mounted under the hull and props were stamped and solder to a threaded hub and screwed on the shaft. I saw him do a 360 loop with it that year.
John
Here are two more pics of the Hughey boat sorry about the poor quality. These were taken a long time ago and scanned recently.Hi John, no I never had a Logghe rigger. My first rigger was a Wing Ding I think. Yes, Ed's boat was self skinning foam made in a horseshoe pattern. The center section was wood that fit into the horseshoe foam part. I thing either Ed or his brother Dee sold a product called Dial-a-Prop where you would make your own props as you described. I recall John Bridge starting his Lead Sled (geared together ST 67 engines) using an automobile starter motor applied to the propeller. I don't think I ever saw the Lead Sled lose a race.Hi Bob,
Didn't you have one of the first "Logghe" 40 riggers? Did that Hughey boat have the polyurethane self skinning foam construction? I remember one year maybe 69 or 70 when I was first getting started and Ed was in Detroit for the Mini Gold Cup and was using his flex drive, speedometer cable, and had a 40 mounted in a frame with a flexshaft and prop and actually used the prop like a saw to cut a 2X4 to prove to John Bridge is was safe and strong. Ed's boat had a horseshoe shaped rudder mounted under the hull and props were stamped and solder to a threaded hub and screwed on the shaft. I saw him do a 360 loop with it that year.
John
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