Patron Saint - Twin Mono

[keithbradley]

Beautiful!

I have considered doing one of these multiple times but never pulled the trigger.
Yours looks great. The height of the prop relative to the bottom of the hull caught my attention, but I guess it must work well?
I've never done a twin mono so I've never had the chance to see how well that works. Sounds like you have it figured out though.
Take some video if you can...nothing cooling than a big mono IMO!

[bikenewby]

Beautiful!

I have considered doing one of these multiple times but never pulled the trigger.
Yours looks great. The height of the prop relative to the bottom of the hull caught my attention, but I guess it must work well?
I've never done a twin mono so I've never had the chance to see how well that works. Sounds like you have it figured out though.
Take some video if you can...nothing cooling than a big mono IMO!

Hi,

Thanks for the complement. Yes, the stingers position are quite high relative to the bottom but there wasn't much of a choice due to shallow V shape and I'm trying to keep 2 props stay away from each other.
This make the boat ran quite wet initially, especially with outward turning prop setup. So I moved the batt to the back to keep cog at around 25% from transom. And with inward turning setup, it ran quite well now. The boat transom is still not totally lifted (only up to prop position) but it ran quite nicely with nose up and only some small area of transom in the water.

Will try to take some vid but need to look for a cameraman first.

[Jedi Master]

Wicked build, can't wait to see some video!

[bikenewby]

Ok... update for this week. Just ran the boat today with some vid (badly) taken. I'm still having no luck on cameraman. Also don't want to hold the camera myself during run. So... here is the best I can do... a kind of fly-by video.

Top speed is still consistent (98.3kph = 61mph). However, as I try to lower the nose lifted by lowering down the stinger angle and trim tab, the boat is now porpoising. Anyone know how should I fix this porpoising problem? Should I lowering down the trim tab and stinger? Or should I move CoG a little forward? Any advice/recommendation would be very appreciated. Note that the stinger angle is still about 2-3degree positive and the trim tab is about +5 degree...

The boat still ran a little wet but a lot improved comparing to previous outward turning setup. Here is the vid of her maiden run. Top speed was around 85kph(~53mph). Please don't mind the spoken language...It's my native tongue.

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[bikenewby]

New video clip...

[twissted]

Graet boat! I my try something like this soon. I'm looking at the Centralrc marine 60" hull. Great build.

[DK535]

Love the last vid!!! It's screaming!!! Nicely done

[bikenewby]

Thank you very much. It has been out of water for a while now.

Good luck with your build. Don't forget to post video...

[Uncle Vinnie]

Glad I came across your tread, and I must say that's an awesome looking boat.

[SpeedFreak_86]

Nice job

[bikenewby]

Thanks guys...

[adam777]

Nice job, I like this boat. It's really awesome. video is also nice.

[Make-a-Wake]

Whoa, really running well now!! Did you move your COG back?? You may wanna try one run with the props reversed

[bikenewby]

Hi, Thanks. The boat ran better now with inward turning props setup. I also move CG toward the back as much as I could, :)


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