60" plus riggers? How about 72"?

[Shawn]

That Mystic is insane. Absolutely beautiful beast!

[lp670]

Hi sorry to bug you once more can you post some photos of the 60 inch hydrofoil?

[urbs00007]

Anyone ever build or know of any riggers that are 72" long? I've seen some pretty large cats out there.

Working on/redesigning a zenoah gas powered outrigger that needs to be brushless and lipo.

Trying to search but I'm mobile and well, tapatalk search functions kinda stink.

Thanks for any help!

shaun, i built a 8 ft outrigger powered it with neu 2230 went about 40 mph.then downsized it to 6 ft same power 78 mph. then downsized it to 4 1/2 ft (twin 90 sized ) same power 96 mph. do yourself a favor, run something small , you'll have much more fun . cheaper, easy to transport, faster.

[Old Sloppy]

a 6' rigger (72") @ 78 mph sounds good to me.

Harry

[lp670]

That style has less drag.

[Shawn]

Sorry for the delay, I have better access to pics at my office.

It's not a great photo but here is a photoshop of the front of the boat. For more pics, I do have my gallery on here. Most of the boats are similar in design, just scaled up and down per powertrain used.

We will have new video uploaded to YouTube as soon as possible. I plan on publishing my brushless boat videos as well when I make them. Just down to a few nitpicky adjustments and I'll be getting in the water with it. For what it's worth I woke up to sub 30 degrees here in Jax Florida - it may be Florida but I'm waiting for spring too!

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[Shawn]

shaun, i built a 8 ft outrigger powered it with neu 2230 went about 40 mph.then downsized it to 6 ft same power 78 mph. then downsized it to 4 1/2 ft (twin 90 sized ) same power 96 mph. do yourself a favor, run something small , you'll have much more fun . cheaper, easy to transport, faster.

It's definitely all about power to weight! My rebuilt 24" brushless is running about 1 to 1.75 hp and just over 2.75 lbs. I'm pretty sure it's going to be *pretty* fast. Heh, I'm pretty excited!

Here at the specs (I think my math is about right):

• 2 lbs, 12-7/8 ounces
• 1.273 (1.274) Kg

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800 watt to 1300 watt (burst)
3650 kv at 30,000 RPM

[lp670]

I saw your ad on yacht world I was wondering if you have ever made a real one?
If you have the molds you could make a carbon fiber one.

[Shawn]

Definitely carbon fiber is in the works for any update on the models.

My dad has built 2 full size 16' boats powered by a Chevy 350. It's an older design. For these new turbine powered boats, funding is the biggest obstacle. Once he gets funding for a full size boat it will be built! =]

[lenny]

Ok,
What is the hold up ?
On some good video's of them baby running.

[lp670]

Do you have any photos of the big one?

[Shawn]

Oh yeah! I'll be getting some vids on Thursday but they'll need some editing before we upload the next YouTube. It will probably be about a week or so before it's up.
Here's a screenshot of the old 16' V-8 boat running in Long Branch, NJ - back in the day.

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[urbs00007]

8 ft rigger

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Oh yeah! I'll be getting some vids on Thursday but they'll need some editing before we upload the next YouTube. It will probably be about a week or so before it's up.
Here's a screenshot of the old 16' V-8 boat running in Long Branch, NJ - back in the day.

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[T.S.Davis]

Once upon a time there was a guy that built a full scale rigger. Had a V8 engine or something. Ran terrible.

[Shawn]

That looks sweet urbs!!

I wondered if there's a limit to the size of riggers like you say. I guess it's why Tunnels and hydros are the norm after a certain size, catamarans after a certain size...