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HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts) Tue Dec 3, 2013, 11:13 PM Dec 2013

"Monster Garage" boat being created for expedition race. [View all]

A 19' Flying Scot Class sailboat is being heavily modified, Monster Garage fashion, to compete in the 2014 Everglades Challenge, a 300+ mile expedition-style race starting at Ft DeSoto at the mouth of Tampa Bay, racing down the Gulf of Mexico, throught the Everglades and Florida Bay mudflats, and finishing in Key Largo. Follow the progress of the building and testing here:
https://m.facebook.com/pages/Frankenscot/443256769108126?id=443256769108126&_rdr

or go to Watertribe.com for more information on the race.

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"Monster Garage" boat being created for expedition race. [View all] HooptieWagon Dec 2013 OP

Thanks! Here is the non-mobile link to the same page.... NYC_SKP Dec 2013 #1

Thanks. HooptieWagon Dec 2013 #2

I don't think a flying scot is the right boat for the everglades challenge. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2013 #3

The Coresounds are great boats. HooptieWagon Dec 2013 #4

Update: HooptieWagon Mar 2014 #5

Congrats! n/t lumberjack_jeff Apr 2014 #6