How come their is so many hulls that look the same but manufacture are different? Brads Wriedt looks like my tahiti. What does a splash hull mean? hope i said it right And does ant one have any information on Tahiti hulls I would like a little history lesson on them. 

-beerjet-

What put an end to that was the US government passed a law that said if you splashed a hull and sold it, the the original designer/MFG/Legal owner was legally entitled to ALL proceeds from the sale of that hull. Most boat hull shops took themselves out of business rather than face millions in back payments.

In reality, a good law. Spending $$$ to develop a hull then have someone else copy, sell it and get the profits isn't right.

If you ever want to see Brad turm white ask him how he thinks the Rasberry would handle with a 1" hook instead of the 1/4" relieved strakes and straight keel it had.

Tom,

The unfortunet thing about the raspberry was that i only got to drive it 3 laps before it blew up...and maybe 3-5 minutes tops when testing....and the motor i had in it barely broke it into the 60 mph range......maybe that was for the better....who knows.

what i do gotta say is that damn boat handled chop like a champ.....especially with the center steer setup rocking side to side on the keel like a teeter totter instead of getting slammed as you hammered over cross wakes.

my next 'race' boat will be center steer. i really liked that setup.

Convert what you got!

i got my eyes on a capped flat deck rogers like the 410 thats been sittin for awhile.....i think i got the guy convinced to sell it to me. i'm just waiting to get settled in vegas before i give him that call. i dont want to push him then not have anywhere to keep it.

if i get that boat it will be setup strictly to run compjet....the crazy eights will be my nostalgia boat or be retired to a river boat.

so anyways.....back on subject....i think i remember old rigger telling me once that there was several shops on one street in bellflower i believe....and they would roll molds between the shops and trade off on them....thats why so many boats look the same, but are different internally (stringer lenght, with/without floors, different bulkhead setups, etc)......i believe it was tahiti, wriedt, weiman/rodgers, kona and i believe hawaiian who all did this.

i wont mention names but someone told me he was there when roger's boats splashed the bubble deck off a sanger to incorporate into the bubble deck rogers mold.....so thats where rogers got its bubble deck from.

slashing was very common back in the days.

No offense taken and none implied.  A bit more history... the law outlawing splashing was actually thanks to the Spa Industry who had the same issues the boat guys had.  The boat Industry tagged on when the legislation was being written.  The Gas lines of the 70's also helped weed out the bad companies at the time.  People still wanting boats only bought quality hulls and the chopper gun boats went the way of the DO-Do bird. That's probably why you still find many old hulls in such good shape structurally. 

Dick Shuster started Tahiti in the late 60's. Then it was sold to Bell Industries in the mid 70's and later to Hardin Marine which also picked up Carribean Boats. I believe thats the way it went down.