New build cat:

[F1 madness]

well my 5yr son wants a boat and likes the offshore cats,so thought id have ago at building him 1
Iv designed this from pics of others and managed to work out some measurements and this is what iv come up so far:
24" L x 8 1/2" W

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And some more pics:




What guys think:

[Jedi Master]

Any scratch build is always impressive. I like the lines on yours. I'll be following this thread with interest!!!

[F1 madness]

Any scratch build is always impressive. I like the lines on yours. I'll be following this thread with interest!!!

cheers bud,im just doing the lower side of the sponsons,just gotta sand of the excess.
I do try to design boats that are slightly different in appearance/lines,but still give the performance and handling aspects.

[Jedi Master]

I do try to design boats that are slightly different in appearance/lines.

Well, you got that part right in my book!!

[Make-a-Wake]

Nice!!

[F1 madness]

Well just finished sanding the lower sides of the sponsons (& fingers)
and this is where im at:

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Some shots of the rear:




still a fair bit to do yet but getting their slowly

[F1 madness]

Well, you got that part right in my book!!

cheers bud,not easy to do but glad you like

Nice!!

thanks mate

[F1 madness]

Well got some more done,finally managed to finish the rear of the hull,and must say its looking alrite

[HYDROJERRY]

Looks realy cool F1, humm will your son have a better boat than yours hummm looks like he might,,, good work dude,,,

[F1 madness]

Looks realy cool F1, humm will your son have a better boat than yours hummm looks like he might,,, good work dude,,,

Thanks jerry,he probably will LOL

[F1 madness]

He asked for some exausts,so he got them gonna use them as water outlets:

[beau0090_99]

F1,
Any updates on this build? As a side note, I bet you could slip a larger diameter tube over these water outlet and make the inner tube hide within the outer by about 1/4 - 1/2" deep so you don't see it. Then as the water exits the outer tube it may get fairly entrained with air and make it look like hot steam (or scale exhaust). I am curious to see how this turns out and am also following your F1 28" thread. They both look beautiful.
Curtis

[F1 madness]

Alrite bud,just gotta sort hardware for it,hopefully in the next couple of wks it be far away,from being finished,just want to get f1 done as iv got everything to complete,and get my 37"mono running better.