hull coatings for speed
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anyone out there had any luck with hull/drive coatings??? i remember a couple of years ago there was stuff call vc liquid speed that was a teflon coating that you sprayed on the hull and drives-anyone tried anything like this???
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speed wax is the best on the market, search for threads by littleduece, he invented it in a secret underground wax lab, iv e heard you can gain as much as 7mph depending on type of hull and how thick a coat you apply
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There is a product out there called speed coat. It's a graphite based paint, it comes in rattle cans and quart cans for use with a gun. We tried it on an SST 45 boat that I crewed for a couple years back, We didn't see any noticeable gains at all. It was just kinda one of those we have to give it a try things that didn't work. About the only benefit was that the boat slid on and off the pit trailer easier.
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7 mph ? SEVEN ? do you know how much parasitic surface drag over the small number of sq in of hull you have in the water at speed you are talking about there ? that is an absurd number... maybe POINT 7 mph
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Originally Posted by stevesxm
7 mph ? SEVEN ? do you know how much parasitic surface drag over the small number of sq in of hull you have in the water at speed you are talking about there ? that is an absurd number... maybe POINT 7 mph
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speed wax is the best on the market, search for threads by littleduece, he invented it in a secret underground wax lab, iv e heard you can gain as much as 7mph depending on type of hull and how thick a coat you apply ![Evil](/forums/images/smilies/evilB.gif)
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Yeah.
And hulls with blisters are up to 8 mph faster than hulls without blisters because they break the surface tension like a million little steps. Depends on the length of the hull and the amount and height of the blisters. This was why non-bagged 80s hulls are so fast.
You just have to be careful when turning at high speeds with a blistered hull. You could spin out.
This is where the expression "Blistering fast" comes from.
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ah ha.... well... with some of these magic beans you never know when people are serious and who is believing whaqt fairy tale that day......
BUT as for the blisters.... i worked on some americas cup boat stuff where an unamed company developed a golf ball like surface finsh in micron size that , infact did reduce the parasitic drag by a real and repeatable number... and it WAS like little mini blisters... was worth real boat speed... but of course those boats have a lot of hull in the water all the time...
BUT as for the blisters.... i worked on some americas cup boat stuff where an unamed company developed a golf ball like surface finsh in micron size that , infact did reduce the parasitic drag by a real and repeatable number... and it WAS like little mini blisters... was worth real boat speed... but of course those boats have a lot of hull in the water all the time...
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a golf ball like surface finsh in micron size that , infact did reduce the parasitic drag by a real and repeatable number... and it WAS like little mini blisters... was worth real boat speed
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There is a product out there called speed coat. It's a graphite based pain