Advice sought,

My current build project is a scratch built replica of the Veron ‘Police Launch’. This is a hard chine hull design. I have built the hull and have planked this with vertical balsa sheets (as Glynn Guests ‘Higgins Hellcat’) instead of ply skins. As the hull is now nearing completion, I noticed the lack of spray strips from this hull’s design.

How critical are these strips? should I fit them even though they are not shown on the plans, and if so what size material for a 26" long hull?

A photograph of the original model can be seen in this months MB, Focus on scale item, page 34, photo 5. It looks from this photograph that this original model boat was not fitted with these strips.

Thanks, Tony.

Thanks Paul,

I was enquiring at this stage, as a white water line crosses the strip. It would therefore be a neater job to fit the strips before painting. To have built the model, found performance in need of improvement and then retro fit the strips would obviously mark the hulls finish.

Further thoughts are that I am not building an exhibition standard model, more a sport/fun launch.

Tony.