UPDATE:
Ford Lake, Sunday October 08, 2006.
Took it out three or four times into the lake, same result everytime. Gets out there, starts to slow down, nose starts pushing water.
From what I can figure the lower front bow skirt drape edge where the pool noodle is, is being sucked down.
The bow drape going straight across, and the pool noodle addition were not my first configuration choices for this craft. I wanted to slope it inward like a boat but all the extra cutting and fitting would of taken more time than I wanted to spend this spring.
Worked great in the parking lot, and getting it on the trailer was pretty easy to.
I think it work just fine on Gun Lake this winter. Come spring time, I'm doing some major modifications for water operation. It's going to look like a boat by the time I'm through with it.
The sharp lower tail/sponson corners with their weep holes are catching water too. You can see it in the second video pretty clearly (and in the parking lot video). If I can shape it like a canoe, that's what I'm going to do.
6 Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQkzh0Yd0qE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6yx7061lI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S8rW3cmhT0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eghLJ0dU0w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7YHk0hq7Ek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNUioMLU1_A