lipinski

I have two questions I have seen other apache hulls on here with no lip around the hull were the hull joins the deck. Can you grind the lip off to make it look better or will it jepordize the strenght of the bond between the hull and the deck

I am painting it to look like my real boat and I am having vinyl decals made to put on the sides can you clearcoat over them or do you have to scuff them up first and then apply the clear, I am using a laquer paint and clear cote

FROGMAN524

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BTW, what's your real boat?

lipinski

I own a baja 25 outlaw

FROGMAN524

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very nice, I own a Fountain and my first boat was a Baja Outlaw 20'. Can you post pics of the paint job. What engine you got in that thing? 496 MagHO or 500HP?

lipinski

It has a 496 mag ho

FROGMAN524

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Sweet boat, I love the Baja's ride which is extra comfortable without the steps in the hull. There are too little paint colors in that scheme for your rc boat but that's just me.

xxxboatworks

You can grind the overhang smooth if you'd like. You should lay a strip of fiberglass tape along the edge of the seam on the inside. It also depends on the hull. If the deck has too much overhang, it may not be possible to do.

kevwil2

check this out

lipinski

That is a sweet looking boat. That paint job looks like a cigarette paint scheme.

I was wondering if those turn fins actually work well like that I was debating about not putting one on my boat, I am building it just for fun, I never had one on my last boat but it also was not a surface drive it had a steerable outdrive on it and turned good in both directions. Is that a 50 inc apache hull.

crazyotto

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ive got a areomarine 50 in popeye cat , but my real boat is a 24 skater cat w twinn 300x s she is hitting 112 last summer

FROGMAN524

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Skaters are probably the fastest boats on the water next to the callan marine boats. That's one sweet boat you have there crazyotto.

CadillacDTS2001

hey speahing of skaters do you now of a boat called ALL RISKS by GN insurance well now you do i love it unforunatly it got sold so no more fun but it was a 36 footer with 2 825 mercurisers in it and a couple of years a go it hit a world reccord at being the fastets production cat at a top speed of 163.9 mph now that record has been pased now but it was a amazing record back then

lzvagias

i removed the lip on my mono and it looks a thousand times better. its a bit of work but its worth it. the mistake i made was not reinforcing seam with strip of glass and i had one side separate which i repaired only to have the other side fail shortly after. i should have done them both at the same time!