Boat molds...

[Gorilla0178]

Just curious if anyone has any boat molds to build with. Something fitting for this site. I'm actually considering making a mold with the new project I got. It needs a lot of cosmetic work, but a hull mold wouldn't be too hard. It's a hydrostream vector copy. I know they've been splashed plenty. But I'd love to have a new one I built from a mold. Plus I know a certain person that's redoing a 13 bullet and had mentioned a mold maybe. Just thinking..... There has to be a small market for really well built boats that won't kill the bank.

[noli]

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Please do it

You will get a good response I think

Just don't sell them as Hydrostreams, might wake up the Hydrostream brand owner


I think that if we collectively built molds of Hydrostreams, we will keep these awesome boats around forever


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[mikesufka]

Be great to be able to buy a new Viking in bruiser colors identical to the late 70’s model - such a classic.

MDS

[Forkin' Crazy]

There was a guy down in South Louisiana that had a mold he splashed of a vector. It looked great and ran straight and true. Not sure where the molds went.

[Gorilla0178]

Well it's a ways off. But defiantly been thinking about pulling a mold off something.

[Gorilla0178]

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Please do it

You will get a good response I think

Just don't sell them as Hydrostreams, might wake up the Hydrostream brand owner


I think that if we collectively built molds of Hydrostreams, we will keep these awesome boats around forever


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I agree.

[Gorilla0178]

These boats always remind me of this movie....

[noli]

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Gorilla,

Do you have a hull now to work as a plug?

Lots of "project" level hulls in Craigslist that can be purchased for only hundreds of dollars to act as a plug


If you don't have one, lemme know which model you want and I will find one for you.




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[TwzteD]

I would love to Pull a mold off My bullet, but prefer a cheap project to prep for a mold them build it and pop a few boats. Not many small performance minis around anymore, a Voodoo or similar mold would be awesome too. Just alot of time and work.

[Gorilla0178]

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Gorilla,

Do you have a hull now to work as a plug?

Lots of "project" level hulls in Craigslist that can be purchased for only hundreds of dollars to act as a plug


If you don't have one, lemme know which model you want and I will find one for you.




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Yes I have a 400$ vector copy. Pics in build up and fiberglass discussion. Lots of blisters on bottom, but heavy build so it should hold its shape. Never been rigged, just rotten and soggy.

[Gorilla0178]

But I'd build almost anything.

[Capt.Insane-o]

I have a Virage hull plug that someone can have.

[TwzteD]

I have a Virage hull plug that someone can have.


Thoes are cool boats, how big are they?

[dtmeeks]

I have a vandal hull that I would donate to the cause.

[TwzteD]

This is good, options starting to pop up.

[Capt.Insane-o]

Thoes are cool boats, how big are they?

18 If it was stretched to 20 or 21 it would be a really cool boat.

[CUDA]

I never saw a Virage before.

[Gorilla0178]

I do love the virage too.

[Gorilla0178]

Twzted next boat

[Forkin' Crazy]

These boats always remind me of this movie....

I am surprised Darious didn't sue over that first pic! :reddevil:

[Forkin' Crazy]

I am planning on building a mold for this. I have a plug... Pretty sure I can cut the weight 25% at least!!!

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[TwzteD]

Twzted next boat


will a 250r float on it? i would do one! wife wants a bigger boat, thats a good excuse.

[Gorilla0178]

I am planning on building a mold for this. I have a plug... Pretty sure I can cut the weight 25% at least!!!

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That's awesome. I got 3 small boys, im hoping to have them boating in something like that eventually.

[Gorilla0178]

will a 250r float on it? i would do one! wife wants a bigger boat, thats a good excuse.

I think someone had one locally around us. But not sure.

[TwzteD]

Are they flighty boats since they are half tunnel?

[Capt.Insane-o]

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[XstreamVking]

I always thought a 30' V-King would be cool....

[TwzteD]

I never saw a Virage before.


Cuda what boat is that in your avatar pic?

[Gorilla0178]

I always thought a 30' V-King would be cool....
Scaled up to size would be awesome.

[CUDA]

Made in my back yard, two different bottom designs.

[XstreamVking]

Cuda's boat is very cool. I have seen one version of it run and it runs out real good imo.

[TwzteD]

Made in my back yard, two different bottom designs.


Very cool looking boat. Nice job, what was the process? did you build a reversed boat to pull a mold off ?

[CUDA]

Started with my 1985 Sleekcraft SST, cut it up raced the plug then splash.

[LakeFever]

Thats impressive work Cuda

[Gorilla0178]

Im liking the support. Honestly I hope to get to work on some more boats here soon. We just purchased 1.25 acres to build a home on. So now I hope to have enough room to work on projects at home. Im gonna have projects for sure. And Am sill considering building a mold for something...

[LakeFever]

Edison said genius was 1% idea and 99% effort. I really wish you the best and would absolutely LOVE to watch you build something awesome. Might as well plan on 400hp capable, hehe would make the best show of it all plus new 4 strokes will be there soon im sure

[XstreamVking]

Im liking the support. Honestly I hope to get to work on some more boats here soon. We just purchased 1.25 acres to build a home on. So now I hope to have enough room to work on projects at home. Im gonna have projects for sure. And Am sill considering building a mold for something...

The most satisfying boats you build are the ones that are of your own design. You can use what others have done, "that's easy" but an original "gorilla craft" is really the best way to go. Who knows? You may find that you are an innovator after you get started designing it. Start simple, and then build from there. What do YOU want to have as the result of a crap load of work?
Get some big pcs of paper and tape it to the kitchen table and put your ideas to paper.

[Gorilla0178]

The most satisfying boats you build are the ones that are of your own design. You can use what others have done, "that's easy" but an original "gorilla craft" is really the best way to go. Who knows? You may find that you are an innovator after you get started designing it. Start simple, and then build from there. What do YOU want to have as the result of a crap load of work?
Get some big pcs of paper and tape it to the kitchen table and put your ideas to paper.

One day for sure.

[robert jordan]

Gorilla Craft sounds like a cool name to!

[Gorilla0178]

Yes it does. I like that

[Chaz]

Gorilla Craft ... that's a home run ... :iagree:

Better hit GoDaddy while it's still worth .99c .. :)

I putted past Steve Earwood (owner of Rockingham Dragway) one morning after I noticed they changed their web address. I asked kind of half over my shoulder, How much did Vince McMahon pay you for TheRock.com .. He smiled and said : whatever your thinking .. and boosted his thumb upward about three times ..:eek:

You know .. good for him .. :thumbsup:

https://secure.performanceracing.com/sites/default/files/news/therock_0.jpg

[davemvegas]

The most satisfying boats you build are the ones that are of your own design. You can use what others have done, "that's easy" but an original "gorilla craft" is really the best way to go. Who knows? You may find that you are an innovator after you get started designing it. Start simple, and then build from there. What do YOU want to have as the result of a crap load of work?
Get some big pcs of paper and tape it to the kitchen table ahttps://www.screamandfly.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=3125350nd put your ideas to paper.


Damn your good. You almost motivated me to get up off the couch and go do something. Actually you did. I walked all the way to the kitchen. Rummaged up some junk food and designed one of the best keebler cookie line ups i have seen. Now i am going back to the real world and stay put right here.

[XstreamVking]

It's 5 am. I'm up, drinking coffee, and going out in a boat that I built, and in fact drew up on my kitchen table. Built in 1990 it is an antique now. But is as good now as it was when new. Great boat! You can build your own boat. It wasn't my 1st and won't be my last I hope. I ironically make my own cookies too. And damn they are good. Better than any dried out elfen stuff. Chocolate, p-nut butter, cocoanut, and walnuts on top. They are the no-bake kind and very easy. This is my world......I'm having it my way....

[noli]

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Another vote for


"Gorilla Craft"


:)


As Chaz said...Better Save that website name now!




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[Chaz]

Damn your good. You almost motivated me to get up off the couch and go do something. Actually you did. I walked all the way to the kitchen. Rummaged up some junk food and designed one of the best keebler cookie line ups i have seen. Now i am going back to the real world and stay put right here.

Davie ... you ain't had a job a day in your life. :icon_bs:Cept to maybe work for your dad when you were a kid.:rolleyes: For the last 30 years + you have got up and opened the doors to your "Burger King " ;) franchise ... Same motivation, just harder to do now that our batteries are gettin a little low on voltage .. :)
We got some soft-batch chocolate chip's hidden around here .. I'm gonna grab me .. never mind, between my doctor and Mizz Deb ... :nonod:

[LakeFever]

This is my world......I'm having it my way....


Ya!!!!!!! Put it on a shirt and sell the dream!

[Gorilla0178]

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Hahaha
Although gorilla-craft is avaliable

[noli]

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o dangit


there are folks out there that buy these well-named website names and just sit on it till they make their money




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[Chaz]

Noli ... Did you sneak over there early this mornin and scoop that sucker up .. :eek: :nonod: :o

Just kiddin .. :D

Nuttin wrong wiff : Gorilla-Craft.com fo $ 2.99 + tax title dealer prep and destination charges ... :cool:




This is my world......I'm having it my way
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I think your dangerously close to infringing on Davies Whopper with cheese, no onions, extra madderz an pikkles and a cannoli .. hold the soft batch .. :)

[cooperider]

436389 How many boat molds do you want? 17ft to 24ft

[noli]

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are those molds for sale?






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[cooperider]

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are those molds for sale?








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I have been kicking the idea around, yes. The longer they sit, the more sun and weather damage they get.
Getting ready to move them to a new site in about a month so I'll have better pictures then.

[noli]

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great keep us posted, and please give us the inventory list of what you got




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[Gorilla0178]

Yes please keep us posted with pics.

[Instigator]

I like “Gorilla Boats” or, “Gorilla Boat Works” ��

BTW, Cooperriders molds are 45 mins from me.

[Chaz]

I have been kicking the idea around, yes. The longer they sit, the more sun and weather damage they get.
Getting ready to move them to a new site in about a month so I'll have better pictures then.

It's been a while, but I can still remember them all lookin like movie star's around closin time.... :eek:

100' and 100 mph does wonder's as well ... :)

20,000 foot shot from a satellite makes em look like they sittin on a showroom floor ... :thumbsup:

[Noah Burns]

I've got an original Laser 380 mold. Has a part in it still even (it's been in there about 30 years)

[Forkin' Crazy]

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are those molds for sale?






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Or a place to raise small fish, frogs, and other amphibians... Vegetation also.

[CUDA]

I've got an original Laser 380 mold. Has a part in it still even (it's been in there about 30 years)


I'll be right over;) those were good turning Vs.

[noli]

Or a place to raise small fish, frogs, and other amphibians... Vegetation also.
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If the price is right I don't mind if there are goldfish living in the tooling




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[cooperider]

I like “Gorilla Boats” or, “Gorilla Boat Works” ��

BTW, Cooperriders molds are 45 mins from me. And in about a month they will be 10 minutes closer and won't have 10ft of weeds with thorns to get through to get to them.

[cooperider]

Here is a list of what these molds made.
Checkmates from mid to late 1990's:
Persuader 218/219 Hull
Persuader 218 Deck (open bow)
Persuader 219 Deck
Convincor 216 Hull
Convincor 216 Deck
Pulse 185/186 Hull
Pulse 185 Deck (open bow)
Pulse 186 Deck
Pulse 170/171 Hull
Pulse 170 Deck (open bow)
Pulse 171 Deck
Persuader 183 Hull
Persuader 183 Deck
Convincor 242 Hull
Convincor 242 Deck (for standard windshield)
Convincor 242 Deck (with molded in windshield)
Convincor 242 floor mold (mostly just for a pattern)

The hulls have steel reinforced bottoms the rest of the framing is wood.
Checkmate built extremely thick and heavy molds.
All need reworked, some might need to be retooled.
There you go, with a little work enough molds to start a boat company.

[XstreamVking]

I refinished some old molds once for a customer. Toughest job I ever had. What wasn't blistered from standing water, was either cracked from the sun or warped from being stored improperly. Complete re-gell will most likely be required and a lot of release agent used since it's the 1st pull from the new surface.

[Forkin' Crazy]

I refinished some old molds once for a customer. Toughest job I ever had. What wasn't blistered from standing water, was either cracked from the sun or warped from being stored improperly. Complete re-gell will most likely be required and a lot of release agent used since it's the 1st pull from the new surface.

That orange tooling gel is hard as a brick bat!!! I hated that stuff!!!

[cooperider]

That orange tooling gel is hard as a brick bat!!! I hated that stuff!!!

Orange doesn't crack in the sun as fast as the black. I know that for a fact.

[Forkin' Crazy]

Orange doesn't crack in the sun as fast as the black. I know that for a fact.

Well it is "tooling" gel. If you had to repair it (I have done some tooling) you would hate it too. It's great for high production.

So you seem to know so much, why not make a go for it yourself?

[Forkin' Crazy]

Orange doesn't crack in the sun as fast as the black. I know that for a fact.

So why did you quote me? I was NOT the one that said it CRACKED. I said it was a PITA to repair!!! :confused: :rolleyes:

[cooperider]

I was just saying it lasts longer in the sun than the black. From watching them over the years.

[cooperider]

So you seem to know so much, why not make a go for it yourself?

I am, I have a shop full of molds I'm working on. These are extra's that I won't get to for years.

[Still Crazy]

The old Cougar 21, 22 and 23MTR molds are on the market again. Just saw the ad's last week.

[FUJIMO]

obtaining boat molds is the easiest part of the dream.

[dtmeeks]

Just saw these on Facebook

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-powerboat-motorboat/kingston-on/hydro-stream-boat-moulds/1427768189?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

[DEN]

Hey Gorilla, wish I lived closer to ya, would love to go halves in with ya in a project like that...
I have built 100's over molds over the years.




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