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I am curious to know if anyone out there has successfully installed a flood chamber on their Supervee 27? Looking at some hulls online has got me thinking about fibre glassing a chamber that runs down one side of the boat.. i think this is a better option to those ugly roller over hatches.
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Its possible but a ton of work getting it sealed correcty with the deck on.Steven Vaccaro
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Why a flood chamber, buy some waterproof tape and seal the hatch, it form an air pocket in the boat and it float back upright.Samuel Johnson - “An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.” William Cooper "listen to everything, read everything, and believe nothing unless you can prove it in your own research!"Comment
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I agree with Ghost, a sealed SV won't right itself unfornately. I've flipped it a few times, retrieved it completely dry and it wouldn't right itself.Comment
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Check my video, my SV does over 49 easily I flipped it aa few times and it rights it's self, I maybe the center of gravity or balance then.Samuel Johnson - “An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.” William Cooper "listen to everything, read everything, and believe nothing unless you can prove it in your own research!"Comment
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I think that SV has magical properties. 49 mph "easily" is something few Sv's will ever do and I guess the self-righting thing is special to that one also. Mine has flipped at least 10 times and never turned over yet! I'm gonna get a white one! It might help.Comment
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lol...your a funny dude.Samuel Johnson - “An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.” William Cooper "listen to everything, read everything, and believe nothing unless you can prove it in your own research!"Comment
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RC, I wouldn't mind a photo of the interior of yours then. I would suggest that the COG must be low in the hull so that it will right itself when it flips.
(Disregard, a little searching and I found them)Last edited by ChaKane; 07-28-2008, 07:23 PM.Comment
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The only way my SV will show numbers in the 50's is if I switch the readout on the GPS to KILOMETERS per hour! But I'm just running on 4s power. I would be afraid to run two 11.1 batteries and anyway it would just blow off the water. Mine seems happy at about 38 mph.Comment
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You might be right, I was thinking of the same thing Motox.Samuel Johnson - “An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.” William Cooper "listen to everything, read everything, and believe nothing unless you can prove it in your own research!"Comment
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I shoo gooed some styrofoam to the buldge in the hatch and noticed that it will commonly right itself after a rollover. not everytime but more often than before.Comment
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There is a guy on ebay that sells a hatch that you cut down and fit on your sv27 and it will roll over 100% of the time. Search under sv27. We bought 4 of them for our boats and now we race with reckless abandon and the thing just flips right over and off you go. No more swimming, fishing etc... It really works great.
I did quite a bit of research on water chambers and how to make a boat self righting. I own a Carbon fiber Oval master with a water chamber that was built by BBY racing that works pretty well. My brother has a Toysport Synchron that also works very well. I could not figure out a way to get a big enough chamber into the SV27 to hold the enough water to make it flip.Comment
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Sv Flood
I quickly drew up what I would try. Sorry if the drawing is kinda crude
I have done a couple of floods.
Kurt:)Comment
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