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Tech Talk => Projects => Topic started by: msr on September 27, 2016, 04:08:55 PM

Title: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: msr on September 27, 2016, 04:08:55 PM: We picked up a wilder craft tunnel was hoping to do a quick re rigg but after we stripped her down we found some delamination on the stringers once we really dug in the stringers we junk
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: msr on September 27, 2016, 04:23:15 PM: Stringers stripped out these things are 15 feet long a true full stringer hull
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: 69kona on September 27, 2016, 05:36:18 PM: Nice hull I'd like to have this one . Gonna be a fun build 👌🏻

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Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: msr on September 28, 2016, 06:42:31 PM: Quote from: 69kona on September 27, 2016, 05:36:18 PM
Nice hull I'd like to have this one . Gonna be a fun build 👌🏻

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same thing I was thinking when we picked it up
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: msr on September 28, 2016, 06:47:18 PM: Here's a few more build pictures got the new wood for the stringers sanded and set in place
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Post by: SomeThingWilder on September 29, 2016, 09:47:03 AM: I love my Wildercraft
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Post by: 427 wilder on September 29, 2016, 11:52:57 AM: What kind of wood did you use for your stringer's?
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: msr on September 29, 2016, 05:51:37 PM: Quote from: 427 wilder on September 29, 2016, 11:52:57 AM
What kind of wood did you use for your stringer's?
Clear doug fur
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: msr on September 29, 2016, 05:56:54 PM: We got the stringers glassed in what a pain so far under the deck
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Post by: 427 wilder on September 30, 2016, 12:02:52 PM: Are you staying with a center steering?
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: msr on September 30, 2016, 02:08:35 PM: Quote from: 427 wilder on September 30, 2016, 12:02:52 PM
Are you staying with a center steering?
no we're moving it to the left it's going to be more of a river boat
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: msr on October 09, 2016, 04:20:40 PM: We got a little more progress on the project. Got the rails made and installed
I'm happy with the way they came out
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: 427 wilder on October 13, 2016, 04:52:24 PM: What intake and pump does it have?
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: msr on October 14, 2016, 09:15:14 PM: Quote from: 427 wilder on October 13, 2016, 04:52:24 PM
What intake and pump does it have?
it will have a berk pump built by us the most intake is one that wilder and Papp made for four the wilder hulls
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: Six-Oh-Nine on October 15, 2016, 07:21:52 PM: Good, safe hulls... I have a customer that has the second of the Murphy's Law boats... (The one that didn't crash 😳) And with just a nice little 477 it flat boogies... Guy to talk to on these boats is Vic VanHorn in Yuma... Guy is the guru on them and raced with Papp and Wilder back in the day.

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Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: msr on October 16, 2016, 10:01:42 PM: Quote from: Six-Oh-Nine on October 15, 2016, 07:21:52 PM
Good, safe hulls... I have a customer that has the second of the Murphy's Law boats... (The one that didn't crash 😳) And with just a nice little 477 it flat boogies... Guy to talk to on these boats is Vic VanHorn in Yuma... Guy is the guru on them and raced with Papp and Wilder back in the day.

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Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: msr on October 16, 2016, 10:16:23 PM: Quote from: Six-Oh-Nine on October 15, 2016, 07:21:52 PM
Good, safe hulls... I have a customer that has the second of the Murphy's Law boats... (The one that didn't crash 😳) And with just a nice little 477 it flat boogies... Guy to talk to on these boats is Vic VanHorn in Yuma... Guy is the guru on them and raced with Papp and Wilder back in the day.

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yah I hear vic is the guy that n them should be a fun deal we plan on using the 427 out of my miller the motor sleeper cp had for it would have been a lot of fun
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: Coca Cola Cowboy on October 20, 2016, 05:46:06 PM: Joe Podwoski at JP Marine knows how to set them up too. They like to fly the nose!
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: SomeThingWilder on October 20, 2016, 06:54:37 PM: Quote from: Six-Oh-Nine on October 15, 2016, 07:21:52 PM
Good, safe hulls... I have a customer that has the second of the Murphy's Law boats... (The one that didn't crash 😳) And with just a nice little 477 it flat boogies... Guy to talk to on these boats is Vic VanHorn in Yuma... Guy is the guru on them and raced with Papp and Wilder back in the day.

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My fatherinlaw told me about that Vic guy to when he handed the boat down to me
Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: Six-Oh-Nine on October 24, 2016, 02:09:52 PM: Quote from: Coca Cola Cowboy on October 20, 2016, 05:46:06 PM
Joe Podwoski at JP Marine knows how to set them up too. They like to fly the nose!

Haven't seen many wilders associated with jp.

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Title: Re: wilder craft tunnel
Post by: Coca Cola Cowboy on October 26, 2016, 09:55:28 AM: Nope, but he knows them. I asked about this one when it came up.