[nativepaul]

She is 13 years old now, so she has seen better days and worse days. She never was a looker tho, given to me as a failed experiment in how light you could make a saleable hull, it came from the factory with gelcoat you could see through in places, several cracks and a thumb hole at the back of the top deck where someone had picked it up onehanded in the wrong place (its covered by the silver graupner sticker under the wing).

Since then I've reglued the seams on the pickleforks twice, remounted my wing once and wicked cyno into uncountable cracks in the gelcoat. but the cloth has held up to the flips There was a lesson learned here, if your building a a very light hull dont use gelcoat.

Boats are great fun, if you want to run for fun you can use a 1/8 scale gear in a 24"-28" hydro with a small prop for a nice fast boat with some runtime.

If you want to compete you will need probably new stuff, the top peeps in P hydro (the 12cell/4s class) will be running enerland 4500/5000 4s 2p, neu 1521, castle hydra 240 or schultz 170 watercooled in a 30"+ hull, proped to not melt anything for a 90 second run.