Driver 500

[shepster]

HI hope someone can help, i have just bought a driver 500 and will be fitting a yamaha 90hp outboard to it. Just curious to see what sort of speed i can expect out of it.

Offset ?
Prop ?
Engine height ?

thanks in advance

james

 

[Ciao]

Driver

The Driver was designed by Ray Stapley.
He is well known for his cats but people forget his monos built in wood.
The hull you have was lifted off a wooden Stapley, which was then sold by Doug Driver.
The plastic Driver didn't do a whole pile in Offshore racing Mark Unwin from your Island raced one (I think, Memory blurred!) and a guy called Tim Grimshaw ran one for a season in 1982.
An old wooden version won the 1985 World 1.3L Championship in Guernsey.
That boat is now sitting in the Powerboat Museum in Basildon Essex.
It ran ok in the rough and had a fair turn of speed.
And the speed ? 53-54 mph


Speak to Jon stapley http://www.raystapleymarine.co.uk/

His dad designed it!

 

[Ian]

Re: Driver

The Driver was designed by Ray Stapley.
He is well known for his cats but people forget his monos built in wood.
The hull you have was lifted off a wooden Stapley, which was then sold by Doug Driver.

Ciao,

Were all the Stapley Monos wood or were any GRP ones made?

Have you got any pictures of the monos you could post?

Cheers

 

[BluFin]

There is a Stapley/Trimllet in a boat park down
Here looks clean too next time I'm passing I'll grab a pic
I always liked the look of the eagle
rog Button ran one years ago, think it was called "blast off"

 

[Captain Chaos]

there were some stapley 500's in GRP

 

[Matt]

Captain, please change you camp avatar to something more fitting for a superhero.

 

[Captain Chaos]

kiss my ballsack lanky!

 

[Matt]

That does not present a pleasant visualisation.

 

[Captain Chaos]

I know...........your head'll be in the way!

 

[Jon Fuller]

it'd make a funny video tho'! which I could no doubt blackmail you both quite nicely over.

bring it on.

 

[Captain Chaos]

oh.............talkin to me now are ya!

Now, i'll let you film it..........but your not avin a go.........understand!

can we change the subject now please.

BTW, Ace is back.............he will be one of my gay lovers on saterday. I'm really gonna have to break this pretence that i have a girlfriend arent I?

 

[Ian]

Meanwhile.......back on the topic

Whats this then. The ad. on ebay said Winner Stapley

 

[Matt]

Sorry!

Meanwhile.......back on the topic

 

[Ian]

Sorry!

Accepted..............post was about Drivers not Stapleys anyway.

:hugegrin2

 

[Jon Fuller]

Meanwhile.......back on the topic

Whats this then. The ad. on ebay said Winner Stapley

Looks 'Driver-ish' to me (shed loads of warp)

 

[Ian]

Looks 'Driver-ish' to me (shed loads of warp)

JF I'm a bit of a 404 when it comes to this sort of thing. What is warp (apart from a measurement of speed on Star trek)

Another Shot

 

[Captain Chaos]

the deck looks different to a driver 500....................but there aint a lot in it!

 

[Jon Fuller]

'Warp' is a reference to to a deadrise angle that is steeper in the bow than at the transom, as apposed to a substantially constant deadrise like that of a Phantom. so you can imagine looking along one side of the bottom, and the surface is literally warped from transom to bow as the deadrise increases.

 

[Ian]

Warp

Okay, I think I've got it

 

[Captain Chaos]

Ian,

If i remember and it doesnt get too late...........tonight i'll post some pics i have of Driver 500's and thier relations.