MoparB
05-02-2007, 12:22 AM
This is my Graupner Atlantic Challenger. It's just over 50 inches long, and powered by twin 700 turbo motors pushing twin Graupner jet drives. This boat was picked up off of ebay and it is decent shape, but clearly in need of work and detail, but I'll be telling you more about the power in the future than the detailing.
The plans right now are to remove the belt transmissions and drop in a pair of Feigao 8XL motors, and back it up with twin Barracuda 125's, and lipos. I am also going to repaint the whole thing int he proper white, because something caused this thing to yellow BADLY.
This thing is surprisingly quick for the power package that it has now. It really moves even with the basic 700 motors and running on 12 volts. Turns on a damn dime with the jet thrust vectoring. Got reverse too, since it has reverse buckets.
For those not familiar with this kit, it is a scale replica of the Azimut Atlantic Challenger, which was a boat commissioned by Richard Branson to beat the record for world's fastest Atlantic crossing by boat. The real thing must have been a very good design, because the hull, despite being scale, really works well. The real boat also had twin jet drives, just like this model. Out of all of my boats, I am really becoming quite fond of this one.
Right now, I haven't started anything, so these are just the pics of it as it is now. Enjoy.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/Classicchrome/grau5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/Classicchrome/grau3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/Classicchrome/grau2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/Classicchrome/grau1.jpg
The plans right now are to remove the belt transmissions and drop in a pair of Feigao 8XL motors, and back it up with twin Barracuda 125's, and lipos. I am also going to repaint the whole thing int he proper white, because something caused this thing to yellow BADLY.
This thing is surprisingly quick for the power package that it has now. It really moves even with the basic 700 motors and running on 12 volts. Turns on a damn dime with the jet thrust vectoring. Got reverse too, since it has reverse buckets.
For those not familiar with this kit, it is a scale replica of the Azimut Atlantic Challenger, which was a boat commissioned by Richard Branson to beat the record for world's fastest Atlantic crossing by boat. The real thing must have been a very good design, because the hull, despite being scale, really works well. The real boat also had twin jet drives, just like this model. Out of all of my boats, I am really becoming quite fond of this one.
Right now, I haven't started anything, so these are just the pics of it as it is now. Enjoy.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/Classicchrome/grau5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/Classicchrome/grau3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/Classicchrome/grau2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/Classicchrome/grau1.jpg