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Please clarify YOUR definition of best Rob...
In terms of build ease, forum resource, and performance: SKIPJACK
In terms of nostalgia, wow factor, detailed eye candy, increased challenge and WWII love: IX
In terms of desiring a real challenge in build and performance, but probably the most attention at the pond: USOS (8 window) or SSRN (4 window) SEAVIEW.
Loaded question, only you can answer this.v/r "Sub" Ed
Silent Service "Cold War" Veteran (The good years!)
NEVER underestimate the power of a Sailor who served aboard a submarine.
USS ULYSSES S GRANT-USS SHARK-USS NAUTILUS-USS KEY WEST-USS BLUEBACK-USS PATRICK HENRY-K432-U25-SSRN SEAVIEW-PROTEUS-NAUTILUSComment
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Please clarify YOUR definition of best Rob...
In terms of build ease, forum resource, and performance: SKIPJACK
In terms of nostalgia, wow factor, detailed eye candy, increased challenge and WWII love: IX
In terms of desiring a real challenge in build and performance, but probably the most attention at the pond: USOS (8 window) or SSRN (4 window) SEAVIEW.
Loaded question, only you can answer this.Make it simple, make strong, make it work!Comment
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I love my 80" SEAVIEW, but it took a bit to run. I followed Ray Mason's paradigm and it was a sweet model to have, and not as difficult providing you were content with having her squat stern down at rest.
Only ran 45 minutes with the power draw. That was in the early '90s, today's power packs makes me look forward to her refit in a couple of years
When you light her up at night, especially in water deep just enough to dive, with the FS-1 docking lights pointing down from the manta fins still able to reach the bottom and reflect? YOU have a head turner, period.
The SKIPJACK? My DeBoer SHARK is my go to, favorite running boat. Always there when I need her, performs like a champ.
v/r "Sub" Ed
Silent Service "Cold War" Veteran (The good years!)
NEVER underestimate the power of a Sailor who served aboard a submarine.
USS ULYSSES S GRANT-USS SHARK-USS NAUTILUS-USS KEY WEST-USS BLUEBACK-USS PATRICK HENRY-K432-U25-SSRN SEAVIEW-PROTEUS-NAUTILUSComment
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Who is John Galt?👍 1Comment
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Yes, exactly! Ive known most of those pictures, intetesting last one.
That conversion is not so far off . Problem is, you have to shorten a skipjack quite a bit to get the hull right and the stern taper is much sharper. Beluga's just one fat bullet. And it had no waterline mark...
Such conversion of the moebius kit will surely be an eye-catcher.
started trying that on one of my revell skipjacks, can be done i guess.
i went for the crp hull instead.Comment
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Who is John Galt?Comment
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Make it simple, make strong, make it work!Comment
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