Took her out in her first race-- NAMBA district 9, held in Fremont, CA on August 26 and had a blast. The class was P-limited sport hydro, and my boat is actually too long for that class (37"in vs. limit of 34"), but since I was running a P-limited motor on 4S1P there were no objections to letting me run it for fun. 5 boats ran that class, and there was another yellow Miss Bardahl, but a more modern picklefork version.
1st heat: water was a bit choppy in the morning, so I set the lipos back a bit-- and blew over in turn 1 in the mill... bummer.
2nd heat: moved the packs up a little, got it spot on. Boat ran well. Got a crappy start however-- late off the line and a boat in front of me blew over so I had to back off. But 2 more boats blew over and I ended up with 2nd place
3rd heat: boat ran well, took 3rd
4th heat: running well, took 3rd
Boat was handling really well and aside from the 1st heat stayed on the water-- I was actually surprised as it was pretty windy out there. Speed was pretty good, but I was taking the turns really wide to stay in clean water and out of trouble...
Here is heat 4, best of the day. I'm in back at the mill, but jump to 2nd place at the start. My son's phone ran out of memory so only got half the race. I was lapped by the 1st place boat, but on the straights I was holding my own. Really need to work on my driving in the corners...
Here's heat 2 with the very poor start, but there are some good shots of the boat.
Monojeff- the all up weight with lipos is 6.8lbs, and that includes the 6oz of lead weight I have up in the nose. I didn't get around to measuring the prop weight, but the COG is just behind the turn fin.
One note, my turn fin is pretty much raw-- I need to sharpen it for the next run.
Chief
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