12' Wingboat

[Damo]

Hi there all!
Here in Australia we have a stock 25hp class (grait low cost racing) mainly consisting of mono's. Here is one of my "Wingboats" that I build, designd to trap air under the hull. You can go racing for around $1900.00 US and these do speeds around 60mph.
This is a fantastic forum and I reconmend this site to all my frends.
Thanks for looking
Damien

[Gary Bray]

Damien,
Nice Boat, the hull look very similar to the one I use for Bathtub racing......I believe the design did come from Autralia.

Gary

[tthibodaux]

Do those boats run trim?

[Damo]

We run a fine tune trim on the transom but in windy conditions we use our body weight to move back and fowrd. We run no seats in the boats just sitting on a padded floor. I have just made a seat with no bottom so on long races we can sit back into the seat to rest our arms but still sit low in the hull and move backward and foward to suit as well. In this class the seat is optional but moast of us like to sit low in the boat (personal choise)
Thanks
Damien

[7500Blizzard]

Damien whereabouts are you in Australia?

[Damo]

Hi Blizard
I live in the Gold coast in Queensland on the eastern side of Australia. Although most of my racing is in Victoira in Melbourne so I leave my rig at a mates place and fly down every 5 to 6 weeks as there is better racing with bigger fleets as well.
Thanks
Damien

[7500Blizzard]

I might be going down to Australia next year for about a year and a half for work we'll be in the Newcatle area if i make it i would really like to check out your hull.

[Damo]

No probs anytime.!
There are 3 big races around that area every year that we travel to and heaps of good racing with all types of these wingboat designs. I would be more than happy to hook up at one of these races and by all means take one of my boats for a run. Give us a tingle when your down in OZ my e-mail is damo@onthenet.com.au
Cheers
Damien

[7500Blizzard]

Sounds good i'll let you know when this happens.

[TABARARACING]

Not sure if Damien has explained his process for making these boats, but he's one of the first racer type guy to incorporate vacuum infusing (resin infusion) in to his boat building.