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- Chad Durren
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A nice break for those folks like myself who tend to get too wrapped up in today's technology. R&D done "Old School".
1952 CC 18' Sportsman
1969 CC 19' Commander Super Sport
1969 CC 19' Commander Super Sport
- Chad Durren
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It's yet another Gar Wood invention - a 188ft racing catamaran, powered by 4/1200 HP diesels. He built it after "retiring" in Miami in the forties. After he split from Gar Wood Industries. The later (45-47) GW boats were designed by Norman Bel Geddes, an industrial designer. These pics were taken in '49 in front of his island home in Miami (Biscayne Bay?.
1952 CC 18' Sportsman
1969 CC 19' Commander Super Sport
1969 CC 19' Commander Super Sport
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WoW, I just spilled beer on computer, we have got to look into this!! steve
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Chad's got all the bases covered. The experimental boat was known as Venturi. It was multihull boat that was designed to have the actual air pressure raise the boat up out of the water. Not a foil hull, and not a hydro, yet kind of similar in principle to modern tunnel hull boats, in the that shape of the inner hull surfaces actually compresses the air that runs under it. Notice in the photo of Gar in the pool that Chad posted, the actual curved sides of the hull face inward, with the flat sliced sides of the hull outward. The curved hull sides created a venturi. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venturi_effect
I read somewhere what Venturi was powered by. I cannot remember where I read. It seems like it might have been powered by Liberty's.
We actually have a 16mm film of this boat in action, and quite a feature film of Gar Wood himself. The film has been digitized, and will someday be released as our Archive Film Series DVD 2.
I read somewhere what Venturi was powered by. I cannot remember where I read. It seems like it might have been powered by Liberty's.
We actually have a 16mm film of this boat in action, and quite a feature film of Gar Wood himself. The film has been digitized, and will someday be released as our Archive Film Series DVD 2.
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The "Venturi" was certainly a different-looking boat, but it wasn't a Gar Wood invention. It's a scaled-up version of Albert Hickman's Sea Sleds that were popular in the 1920s-30s. A 35' Hickman Sea Sled set a speed record of 58 mph in 1921 (see Bob Speltz' Real Runabouts Vol. III, page 29).
Restoration projects:
1940 C-C 27' Racing Runabout
1955 C-C 21' Cobra
1942 Gar Wood 33.5 Runabout
1972 Riva 21.5 Olympic
1940 C-C 27' Racing Runabout
1955 C-C 21' Cobra
1942 Gar Wood 33.5 Runabout
1972 Riva 21.5 Olympic
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