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Recent content by QST4IT

  1. Q

    Where are you from?

    Washington NC here, helping out the fountain powerboats guys.. Ken
  2. Q

    25'cat

    Chris, Ok here goes. Basicly it all starts with the plug build. The plug is actually the first boat so to speak. We normally build ours out of wood. Once the shape is built we seal the wood with resin, then we'll spray a grey Polyester sanding primer. Block sand everything out to 180grt. Then...
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    25'cat

    Kip, Thanks for the reply, and clearing that up. I appoligize for countering harshly. I can belive there may have been a miss understanding on both ends. Its entirely possible the folks at mate thought the part would be polished,and ready to mold. And that George & the sales guys had...
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    25'cat

    Well anyways it's all water under the bridge. I'm sure the decisions made were for the good of the company at the time which would be all anyone would expect. I would like to take a moment to post a link to some Pics of other cats & Opc Race boats weve built. Most but not all of the big...
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    25'cat

    Kip, If your refering to me as going on and on about this subject I have only done what I said I would do in my first post which was first tell the side I heard , and posted pics of the plug as was built by us. Secondly I stated I would back that info up by writing an e-mail to G.L. who was...
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    25'cat

    Ok guys here's the skinny directly from George Linder Himself on the cat. "The deal with Checkmate ended when they refused to pay me as required by our contract. The matter went to arbitration and Checkmate lost and had to pay me the money due. Checkmate decided not to produce the boats and was...
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    25'cat

    Chris, Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm glad to be able to post up some good info here for all of you. As soon as a I have a few minutes to spare I'll scan some more pics, and e-mail them to you for posting, hopefully this way we can get some better clarity too. Again thanks & I'll get...
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    25'cat

    Hi, all I recieved an E from one of your board members Jim Rumon, inquiring about the 25 checkmate cat.Asking if i had any info\input I could post up for all of you here. We originally built the wood plug for that boat. The boat was designed by George Linder of Challenger,shadow cat, conquest...
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