Hello Cat, how ya keeping?
Late 80s, early 90s the Victory team boats were definitely regular Skaters, and stretched and modified 28 & 32 Skaters, no doubt at all. I have shed loads of pics I took out there in 92 & 93 of them.
They later started building the Peters designed Tencara-esk cats, but this was only the UIM Class one side of things. it was all the UIM 6 litre & Class II stuff that was Skater based (and maybe their first attempts in Class one with some 40s, I can't remember) Mr PJC would be able to give a very accurate view on it, as would Neil Holmes.
BTW, integral fuel tanks is pretty old hat. certainly been used over here in Europe for nearly 20 years that I know of. (though not always succesfuly!)
Did you ever get your Three Pointer back?
JF
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Originally Posted by catmando
Very interesting article and tremendous insight into how Hledin builds boats as light as he does. I would have never thought of making the fuel tank an integral part of the hull.
Couple of things;
The sidebar says the 399 V bottom is a Super V Light. Wrong...it's too big for that class.
Hledin says his boat was splashed in Dubai by the man he sent over there to oversee their racing program. That man was Randy Scism, now owner of MTI. He has said he did not splash the Skater.
My understanding is Michael Peters designed the Victory hulls.
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