Thad Allen's Apache + The Birth of the Cheetah Cat

[Steve 1]

The 5 Molds are done and the top mold has wheels we gelcoat and Co-Bag outside laminate ,core and inside laminate one shot.

[Steve 1]

Here a couple of the crew are preping the last couple molds for lamination we need 16 of these things built like now, the Iraqis are acting up everyday. that arrow is on a Gelcoater we built while my Venus equipment was on it's way over .this is the first floor of the shop where the Cheetah model 8 was built in secret.

[Steve 1]

Here the sides are being finished this goes quick.

[Steve 1]

Standing the Side molds on Top Mold.

[Steve 1]

Finish bolting it up and some small glass work then demold and start another.

[Steve 1]

I will dig out the pictures of this boat.

[Buoy]

I'm loving this stuff!
Keep it coming. Your time and dedication to sharing this is incredible.
I Thank You!

[Steve 1]

I'm loving this stuff!
Keep it coming. Your time and dedication to sharing this is incredible.
I Thank You!

It is my pleasure thanks for looking through it and you are welcome.

[Offshore Ginger]

Artie, we setup this french fork mixer of Iranian origin, here they are batching a structural putty used in Balsa bonding ( for our Dubai branch) which was canned and shipped out. I color coded these to avoid any mixups.

Steve , dam i thought you were mixing dough to make bread put then again it looks like DBF because of the color .

[Offshore Ginger]

After the first race.

Steve , thank god .........you were not wearing a thong with a Cheetah print and ..................just a joke my friend

[Steve 1]

Steve , thank god .........you were not wearing a thong with a Cheetah print and ..................just a joke my friend

LOL the Cat would have Not liked that maybe never ran again.

[Steve 1]

We faced the raceboat Hull fixture with plywood and then pulled a mold, the edges were very sharp and required 3 strips of surfacing veil to be placed so we could get it skinned out without having a problem.

[Steve 1]

Working on the skin coat on the wall there are pictures of the Emir of Kuwait and the Crown prince ,common practice over there the big guy gets respect and is seen all over.

[Steve 1]

What we did here is to make a couple molds that sat on the hull mold to create the Sides of the fishing cat, these lived on Pipe horses and could be rotated up vertical to laminate the gunnel cap and a return behind the coaming and for gelcoating until they were placed on the hull mold.

The vacuum system is in now you can see the piping on the wall and on the left a gelcoat rig we built,the vacuum pump was a blower from a air raid siren that was bombed during the war, I had a 10 HP motor on it and all was well, it worked good.

[Steve 1]

Back when we were mounting the hull sides a couple pieces of heavy channel connect the two

[Steve 1]

Teaching glass cutting a long ways from home

[Steve 1]

The Inner liner molds they cover the Frames provide a hatch grid and the tunnel stringers.

[cosmic12]

Again Steve this is great stuff, learning alot here but not real sure what I'm learning
Something about old dogs and tricks (me not you)

[Steve 1]

Again Steve this is great stuff, learning alot here but not real sure what I'm learning
Something about old dogs and tricks (me not you)

Thank You this boat was a little different than the norm.

[Steve 1]

Here is the liner for the Port side these were two pieces going in and the hatches were the entire cockpit sole giving the ability to offer anything a customer wanted by changing them out, the counter sunk screw locations were molded as well.