1981 Pay-N-Pak Build

[electric]

So, long pause because of the Nationals race in Dallas. Started working on the pay-n-pak again today. First I did a lot of pin hole and imperfections work with the putty. I will be doing another round of sanding and another primer layer in the near future.

I started working on the tail feathers tonight. Decided to use break away nylon screws just about everywhere. If I blow it over I don’t see it keeping together. Rather have it come apart than break.

Still have to mount the horizontal stabilizer. Have not quite decided how to go about that yet.

After I get the tail feathers done I will set up the rudder, motor and turn fin.

The decals are inbound so good news there.

[electric]

Moving along. Got the rudder installed, the support bars in place, but not mounted yet. Also got the drive line roughed in. Checking the CG with all the equipment and everything looks good.

Only thing left is to thread the metal for the turn fin and then back to the paint prep work. Starting to come together a bit. I mounted the tail fin assembly with all breakaway nylon bolts. Not sure if that is the way to go, or to put in real bolts maybe on the cross wires where they mount to the hull and the rest break away. If this thing flips I pretty much don's see the tail feathers surviving very well. Anybody recommend anything on this topic?

[sammyha]

I just started following this, you have a wonderful build going. There's something about these older hydros, they look good on the water.

Thought for you, will the tail fin assembly float? Be gone after it breaks away if not.

Your motor, esc and battery setup is really well done.

Sent from my SM-G950U1 using Tapatalk

[electric]

1981 Pay-N-Pak Build

I just started following this, you have a wonderful build going. There's something about these older hydros, they look good on the water.

Thought for you, will the tail fin assembly float? Be gone after it breaks away if not.

Your motor, esc and battery setup is really well done.

Sent from my SM-G950U1 using Tapatalk

I am not sure if the tail will float. Going test that out in the tub. Not sure what I can do to improve that situation. Best I think is to try and seal up the edges where the screw holes are. Not enough room to do much else.

Maybe I will hard anchor the cross wires to the hull, do they do not add weight to the assembly if it comes off.


I have an old slo-mo-shun shovel nose I run now and I agree they have a cool “look” going across the water. I ran it in the Dallas Nationals a month ago and a couple of people came up to me and told me the same thing. Not the fastest on the water, but fun to run!

[electric]

It's a slow steady process. Taking a leisurely pace building this boat for sure with the holidays etc. So, not much too see here, but a lot of filling and sanding going on and another layer of primer. Still found a few spots that showed up that I want to take care of, but getting pretty darn close to putting down the color, stickers and clear. I placed the stickers out on the hull and did some trimming of those to get ready, but found I was missing the cowling decal! Crud. This will be a delay for sure, but I will wait for them. I got some nice decals for the fins, but pretty sure they will not look good trying to lay them over the leading edge of the tail (the orange and black part of the tail). Probably, I will need to make another trip to the paint store to see if they can color match some paint to the decal.

I tell you, painting with auto paint is an expensive process. I bought, ppg primer, white paint, clear and a few other small items and it was 200 dollars. Buying the orange paint I am discussing will surely cost an extra 50 to 75 dollars. The interesting thing is I am having an auto shop paint a brand new Q-hydro for me as we speak and they are telling me 200 dollars?!? Which seems very low to me, but it gives me some idea how much cheaper they get the paint for than me. The typical paint shop prices I have heard around this areas is more like 300 to 400 dollars for a boat. So all over the the board with pricing. I would have them paint this boat for me, but it involves not only painting, but getting the stickers down before the clear. Not sure if they are up to doing that.

At any rate, here is where we are at this point.

[electric]

About painting... So, my best clear coating has come out ok, my worst has been awful. I have been hanging my boats from a coat hanger and spraying them this way. We have another guy in our club who does beautiful work and he is telling me he uses a big rotisserie essentially so he can rotate the boat and have it always laying horizontal rather than vertical like I have. Seems like a pretty big thing as far as allowing you to lay down a nice coat of clear and not have it run on you. Interested in how others deal with this and is it still possible to get a nice clear job vertically. I am contemplating building some type of "rig" to clear the boat horizontally.

[Tetefroid]

Looking good...

[electric]

So, slowly, but surely, the boat is coming along. This is the fun part. Just picked it up from the painters and it's starting to look like a Pay-N-Pak hydro! I just stuck the fins on for a quick set of pictures. Now the re-assembly begins, but a major hurtle(paint job) is behind me. The painter forgot to apply the Pay-N-Pak small letters on the turn fins, which is not a big deal. I will just apply those over the clear and it should not pop out much at all. The funny thing is he missed that, but managed to get the leading edge of the turn fins (orange stripe) done. This was tough to do because there were two decals for each turn fin and you have to bring the sticker around the front to make it one solid leading edge turn fin stripe. He did a great job on that.

[30nitro]

One of my favorite hulls..!! Looks awesome...!!!!

[electric]

Just to add to the history of this boat. 4 years ago when I got this boat I asked around and found who the builder was and rough idea of when it was built.

Internationalswaters posts when I asked back in 2014:

Crazy that was my boat from 2005. It was bought off of ebay and the deck was all one piece no cut out for the engine well. I had to make the engine rails and lip to hold cowling. I was told it was made by Troy Mcintyre who was from Washington State. It has been at least 15 years or more in the making, but this boat will get to the water.

https://www.muellersfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/Troy-McIntire-352533/?wms_redirected=1

[sammyha]

I love the story behind this project! Stay with it, it has to happen...

Sent from my SM-G950U1 using Tapatalk

[electric]

Here it is. Just about ready for it's first maiden run. I have a few very small things to do, but it is basically complete! Will try and get some shots of it in the water to wrap it up! Only took 7 months! LOL

[sammyha]

Sweet! Very nice job, way too go! I would love to see video of it after you get it trimmed and running good.

Sent from my SM-G950U1 using Tapatalk

[Tetefroid]

[electric]

Sweet! Very nice job, way too go! I would love to see video of it after you get it trimmed and running good.

Sent from my SM-G950U1 using Tapatalk

Will get a video of it when I get it out running.