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[Jason B]

Spooner got it.
He musta been on the Tige website

Your turn Spooner.

[philwsailz]

Does anybody out there now who was first with the pickle fork bow ? I know for a fact that Chris Craft, Bonita, and Glastron all had them in the 60s but was wondering who was first.

Interesting question...

For a very long time, the pickle-fork bow was indicitive of the running surface under the boat. In the old days, it was typically of a catamaran type, aka an air-entrapment cat. Power Cat was one of the first performance cat hulls produced, and was originally produced in wood!!!!

The common picklefork design in racing, AKA a three-point hydro interstingly enough started out as a shovel-nose design, along the lines of "SLo-Mo-Shun" as an example. I do not recall the name of the first shovel-nose hydro to go to the pickel-fork design. But the "two sponsons out in front with a pad and prop in back" design originally had no pointy thingies out front.

The current trend in pickle-fork is interesting, as it is morphed onto the front of a v-hull, almost mimicing a tri-hull or cathedral hull, but just very briefly. The current hull design has none of the ride or bad habid characteristics of the typical old tri-hull; it is completely a v-hull on plane.

Hmmm... I think I am largely correct, but up to additions or modifications if there are others who can share similar information or additional information...

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Check the following link, as it relates to pickle-forks in racing and in production hulls...

http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...read.php?t=879

[spooner]

CAN bus makes my house payment

During the 2004 US Tige Open what happened to the slider on saturday night(over night)?

You allmost have to have been there to answer this question so maybe its too hard.

I still have lots of great memories from that trip.
Nothing like your meeting you dealer there by chance and getting into all the Tige events thanks to him