hi all,
happy new year to all, been a while since iv posted on here, but the time has come to really get cracking preping my hull for this seasons races.
right so over the winter iv made a few mods to my XR2 to try an give it a few more ponies but am now thinking of ways to lighten my hull,
after lots of set up and testing iv found my Ring20c performs much better when the balance of weight was shifted forward (fuel tank) the boat performed much better with the tank strapped to the deck directly behind front seats rather than in its proper place at the back, because of strapping the tank to the deckk (and the deck being old) the deck has started to de-laminnate off the hull and also looks quite old an rotten.
i have sorced another s/s fuel tank that is long and skinnny as aposed to my large almost square tank i have at present, my thoughts was to use the long skinny tank in a similar position to where my tank is strapped now but unnder where the present deck is in he bottom of the V (thiis should also cut down on the ppendulam affect i seen to have with the tank strapped high up on the deck?)
my real question here is how much strength does the deck give to the hull? would it be a good idea to compleatly remove the deck in the back, just leaving the pedistal for the front seats and the small section of deck for the foot throttle and foot board, connditions for guernsey racinng are rarely smooth so dont wanna comprimise on saftey or strength to much. so basicly i am asking if from the seats back would be compleatly bare apart from a fuel tank and 1 board laminated somewhere to mount fuel rig/trim pump would thiis be ok?
always worked on engines and donne a lot of cosmetic work to boats but donnt know a great deal about the stenngth of a boat and what can be stripped out.
sorry for thhe essay, just wante to make sure i explainned myself so evveryone could unnderstand.
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