1/10 Spirit of australia.

[Outkast]

Richie
Looking good. Great to hear that you managed to get in touch with the Warby's. I managed to track down and get a copy of the pic of me with Proff Thomas Fink that assisted Ken with the dynamics of SoA and find that unfortunately it appears that Tom has long been resting. Was a good trip down memory lane to find that out though contacting many old work mates that I haven't spoken to in years..

Steve

[Richie the shipwright]

Glad i fired you up!! Memory lane is always a nice place to visit. :-) I did a bit of searching on tom fink, and figured he had gone. I Didnt think to ask ken! Thanks for the info.
Work on the spirit is progressing, a bit slower than i expected tho....
Ive made up a new motor mount, Got most of my hardware together,and been messing around with the windscreen a bit. Lots of fabricating!!!
more pics soon. :-)

[Outkast]

Richie

No probs. Its a few years after he was involved in the record, but Prof Tom is the bloke on the left, me, the ugly bloke on the right (wish i was still that skinny). I was reminded along the journey that Tom was also involved with Donald Campbell and his last fatal attempt at the record. Sorry about the poor quality, just a snapshot of a hard copy with the phone. Waiting on a new scanner as last one and the computer it was attached to are a little flood damaged...
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Steve

[Richie the shipwright]

No tie?? So australian! :-) Looks to me like a pretty trendy early 80's beard you had going there too... I'd Frame that photo and put it on display in your mancave my freind, a genuine conversation starter. Thanks for sharing it. :-)

[Richie the shipwright]

A few photos of my hardware mock up. some feedback would be great.... I bought strut with 3/16 propshaft, and two different length rudders to try. Strut is a bit bigger than i was expecting. I set it up with a slight offset (1/2") to the right and parallel to the trailing edge of rear ski, also spaced it out from the transom by 5mm. Offset to the left, the longer rudder sits 50mm below the bottom of the strut. The other rudder i have is 15mm shorter. Prop in the picture is an x442.
What do you think guys... On the right track or what??

[Chrisg81983]

Looking real good richie

[urbs00007]

what happened with this build? was the electric motor not enough power?