Tiny hydroplane, home built from a 1936 design by B Crandall, from Ideal Boating magazine.

[jaypeter666]

KruitzKraft...that's where I got my copies of the plans!

I got a couple different series from "Ideal boating" from you guys about 3 years ago, to replace the originals I'd lost...thanks!

[dkruitz]

That's great! I think Bruce Crandall's designs are some of the greatest looking ones of the era - I've got a bunch I sell cheap on my site at KruitzKraft . com. Nice work!

[jaypeter666]

Minibikerider - you are right - all modern hydroplanes have sponsons and an aerodynamic "air-way". This was still, in 1930's, referred to as a "hydroplane" though...simply because it has a "step" - the front half of the hull id 2 inches "deeper" than the aft section.

When these vessels planed, there was a foot or two contacting the water in the rear bottom, and then a few inches of the forward half...

It's a "single-step, mono-hull hydoplane"...and you're correct, these days it's a runabout!

[igottalongone]

Shweet! That must be a blast!!!

[MrDjcucumberslice]

isnt that a runabout

it looked like a v shaped hull

[benzo430]

@spottyd1 probably Glen L" they have a couple little hydro plans just google Glen L

[jaypeter666]

They were originally published in the 30's in "ideal motor boating" magazine...and then again in a compilation called, I think, "Ideal series: 40 small boats you can build".

Someone has scanned that issue and made them available for DL...google "bruce crandall midget flyer hydroplane" should do it.

There's the flyer hydroplane, AND the Flyer runabout...this is the hydroplane.

j

[HarrisonBergeron01]

awesome!