Anyone for filet of hydro?

[FE Wannabe]

This is what happens when you confuse the back straight as a boat docking area!

Tony (ProperChopper), Jan (UB hauled) and I were having a hydro fun run on Monday when I cut inside Tony and preceded to stop for some reason.
Tony had no where to go but through me, literally!
Luckily I was still able to run her back to shore under her own power before she took on too much water.

You can see the red mark where the on-coming hydro's left sponson hit my port sponson and went through the cockpit. Then the turn fin sliced through the port side towards the aft and the rudder through midship.
Luckily the slices were only on the upper deck and the hull was spared any damage. The floatation in the hull protected my batteries and all other vital organs were missed.

Anyone have any ideas about how best to repair the hole in the cockpit, since that piece is at the bottom of a lake? I believe the deck and hull are made of styrene. I think I can handle the other repairs where the deck was sliced.

I guess I learned my lesson: You have to keep that throttle pinned!

[RandyatBBY]

The rear of the Deck can be re glued back together with CA. The top of the canopy, I am assuming you lost the parts. If so you will need to cut the top square and replace with a scab part from my stash.

[FE Wannabe]

The rear of the Deck can be re glued back together with CA. The top of the canopy, I am assuming you lost the parts. If so you will need to cut the top square and replace with a scab part from my stash.

Randy,
You are correct, I lost the top chunk of the canopy during the impact. I will PM you to arrange how get a scrap piece of the canopy from you.
Thanks for the assistance, it is appreciated!

Brad

[Jeepers]

ouch!

[andym]

Any damage to propchop's ride??

[properchopper]

Any damage to propchop's ride??

No damage, only to my feelings after looking at Brad's boat. Hope she gets well soon Bro !

[FE Wannabe]

Any damage to propchop's ride??

Andy,
No damage to Tony's Aquacraft UL-1, but he had modified that hull quite a bit. So his boat is quite a bit beefier than stock.
He was able to flip it back over push the rudder down from its kicked back position and keep on running.

I still remember hearing the crunch from the impact. I was lucky to still be able to get it back in before the water flooded the electronics. I did have floatation so I wasn't too worried about losing the whole boat. The floatation that I had in there also protected my batteries from being sliced by the rudder when it hit the deck. So that was an added bonus.

Brad

[FE Wannabe]

No damage, only to my feelings after looking at Brad's boat. Hope she gets well soon Bro !

Tony,

Not to worry, Randy is getting me a cockpit that I can cut to fit the damaged area and some fins too for that scale look. I can use CA to fix the sliced areas on the deck. Besides, it was my rookie driving error that caused the accident. I was just glad you didn't have any damage.
I guess we will have a new member to TEAM BONDO! We need an official team logo.
Have a good one bud!
Brad