ManhattanMan wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Right! Nothing between you and the water but a sheet of marine ply :-)

Geezz, at least my brother put a few layers of fiberglass on the bottom of
his...


That was an option for both the Utility and the Hydroplane Utilities if
I remember right, and a lot guys did it and gained a few knots. Mine was
so pretty with all that McClosky's Man-O-War shining like a new diamond
through to the wood grain I didn't have the heart to FG it :-)
Kept the P51 the same way; as true to the original as I could. Took out
the old radios of course and replaced them with Collins. Those old
radios were HUGE :-))

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Dudley Henriques