The really "Old School" boating thread

**Sharp shooter** · 06-28-2014, 08:01 AM

[QUOTE=doubleeagle;118420]

Originally Posted by Sharp shooter

I'll have to go back through my arcives but I think Wilkerson built these starting about 1966 or so. Even his earlier boats had that type of nose They were I believe inspired from Allen's and Kennedy's from the 50's. The Regatta was a very shallow V with a couple flat strakes and a very needle type nose and those very reversed flared sides
I have to say after looking at the Rayson Craft on the page before (post 435) the foward bottoms do look a lot alike. The chine line would be drasticly different because of the almost arrow head shape from the transom to nose.

I have some regatta ads from 66 that definitely share similarities in the forward bottom area but these boats look smaller and lower freeboard to Rudy's GN. They advertise a reverse strake bottom. Maybe Rudy got his inspiration from these Regatta hulls...?

**gn7** · 06-28-2014, 08:20 AM

[QUOTE=Sharp shooter;118400]

Originally Posted by doubleeagle

I don't know what it is, but I can tell you the bottom looks just like the forward bottom of a Rayson GN and the first one of those I've seen in picture was 68. So who copied who....?

I don't see the resemblence

**doubleeagle** · 06-29-2014, 08:18 AM

Boy the quotes sure got messed up shows me posting Sharp Shooters post and vice verse. After looking at the Rayson Craft again, I think its just seeing shallow flatter type strake on a shallow entry type nose other than that I don't see much resemblance either. With that said at first glance they do look similar. My Dad had experimented with Shallow type strakes on the later ArrowCraft Boats they built and raced back in the late 50's. They had a 13'6" with twin 78 mercs it had a problem grabbing a chine when coming off the throttles the strakes helped out big time.