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    Quote Originally Posted by FUJIMO View Post
    ...start of the 1959 Gold Coast Marathon from Miami Beach to West Palm in the Intracoastal.
    And the start of a long day..
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    Seemed perfectly reasonable at the time.

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    so was this thread about the gold coast marathon????

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    The Dutchman tunnel boats, like almost all of the race boats of that era were Schoonover's best guess. They were not wind tunnel tested or designed by aerodynamic experts. The builder/designers of the day built what they thought looked right. If someone offered me a drive in a twin Dutchman back then I would have done it in a minute. That being said those boats had bad habits. Like most of the tunnel boats of that period they were pretty easy to blow over but the Dutchman also suffered from what some called the "Dutchman stumble". Sometimes, usually running downwind, the boat would suddenly lose lift and try to stuff the bow. I never saw one stuff it all the way in, but it was a handful to keep it running straight when it happened. These boats also were not competitive with a single engine as I recall.

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    Thanks for the info. Dad was driving it because Wally was away...maybe at school? He was with Wally's father. I think it was the first time the boat was wet. He felt okay for awhile, then became nauseous. Bruised spleen or something like that.

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    Go to page one, post #13

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    Thanks Chic. I had forgotten the single engine Fantom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2us70 View Post
    The Dutchman tunnel boats, like almost all of the race boats of that era were Schoonover's best guess. They were not wind tunnel tested or designed by aerodynamic experts. The builder/designers of the day built what they thought looked right. If someone offered me a drive in a twin Dutchman back then I would have done it in a minute. That being said those boats had bad habits. Like most of the tunnel boats of that period they were pretty easy to blow over but the Dutchman also suffered from what some called the "Dutchman stumble". Sometimes, usually running downwind, the boat would suddenly lose lift and try to stuff the bow. I never saw one stuff it all the way in, but it was a handful to keep it running straight when it happened. These boats also were not competitive with a single engine as I recall.
    That "stumble" also was present in the aluminum version of the design built by Bill Petty as "Pettycraft" . This resulted in a fatality at a race I attended in Lorain, Ohio back in 67 or 68, in which a brand new, dual, Petty hull pitch-poled and wound up re-entering upside down and back wards (the worst flip scenario of all) killing the driver.

    I also was racing against Chet Strickland in the 1968 Milwaukee-Chicago-Milwaukee Marathon when he submarined an identical Pettycraft into a big wake. It was not surprizing that the boat stuffed, but it never even lifted as the wake moved under it. I flew over the top of the wake in my twin Evinrude/X115 Eltro, looked down at Chet, and after he waved that he was okay... I continued on to Chicago...and back.

    Bottom Line.....I would find another hull to put twins on IMHO.
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    My Dutchman project is now for sale in the hulls up to 20' forum.

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    ...Checking again, for any info on this particular pickle-fork Dutchman...thanx...

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    1350s with fleetmaster lower units on a 17 Dutchman, Virginia tag on the trailer. Never saw that one down here. Can't think what class it would have been run in. Must have been somebody's pleasure ride.

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    Looks like an electrical tape number job, 62, and a 71 Virginia tag
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    Tunnel boat would be legal for SJJ but I don't recall seeing that class being run anywhere by then. It sure wouldn't be competitive in UU.

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    Anyone notice that one engine has trim, the other doesnt???

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