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I have purchased two of these hulls (one in my possession, one soon to be intransit) from an eBay seller "thebuild-rc". The build quality looks very good with an immaculate glossy white gelcoat finish, however, I am sure that achieving self righting capabilities will take a lot of experimenting in the bath tub.
A quick check revealed the chamber leaks inside the hull (probably to be expected as I did intend beefing up the hull). Secondly, the chamber is extremely small occupying no more than about 750 cc. The Arowana 32 is well known for its stability when the hull is inverted in the water due its large flat deck, so I feel that additional lead weight will be needed to be added inside the float chamber towards the rear, plus biasing the battery to the left side.
I had hoped being a production hull that the flood chamber volume had been sorted out but it seems that I need to do a lot of homework to eventually achieve a self righting hull. Fingers crossed that a new inner wall will not be needed closer to the keel centreline to gain additional volume.
A quick check revealed the chamber leaks inside the hull (probably to be expected as I did intend beefing up the hull). Secondly, the chamber is extremely small occupying no more than about 750 cc. The Arowana 32 is well known for its stability when the hull is inverted in the water due its large flat deck, so I feel that additional lead weight will be needed to be added inside the float chamber towards the rear, plus biasing the battery to the left side.
I had hoped being a production hull that the flood chamber volume had been sorted out but it seems that I need to do a lot of homework to eventually achieve a self righting hull. Fingers crossed that a new inner wall will not be needed closer to the keel centreline to gain additional volume.
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