Surfriding First UK Tigercraft SV-1 Loki Customs build

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My SV-1 arrived here at my sponsors shop earlier this week. I've not seen on or even ridden one yet but I'm hearing great things about these hulls.
First impressions are great build quality with a thick lay up which is still light.
My current Rickter set up is a 61x +5mm 810cc, 48 Novi, B pipe, msd, 144 solas pump, 14/18 skat and bored nozzle.
This set up will be going in the tiger but I will be upgrading the pump to a solas 148 and possibly a bigger motor before our competition season next year.

Big thanks to Tony at tigercraft, Chris Rauen and John at Loki customs for the help so far, I'm really looking forwards to getting in the surf on this boat.


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Jet_jase

Jet_jase

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With the graphics colour we have Royal blue waffle turf going on the tray and down the rails


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Jet_jase

Jet_jase

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I managed some time getting on with it the other day and trimmed the hull and sanding it making the 2 Halves fit nice and snug ready for it to be bonded together. I also cut the foothold buckets ready to be installed.
I'm going to do a bit more on this next week when I've got time.
I'm actually enjoying doing all this work albeit with the weather in the uk getting colder.



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Jet_jase

Jet_jase

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4.jpg Update - There's been loads of progress on the hull over that last 4 weeks. The hull was water tested for any leaks through the tubes before it was filled with foam and sealed up, We went with polystyrene blocks cut into shape around the tubes then we put 2 part foam in through holes once it was bonded together.
 
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Jet_jase

Jet_jase

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The hull was clamped and bonded together then leaving it over night in a tent with a small heater in to make sure the bonding agent goes off. Weather here isnt great for building hulls at this time off year.
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Jet_jase

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I ordered a few bits from Thrust to bling up the ski like pissers, bilge outlet and Ball valve scupper. Sadly the scupper tube we chose is the wrong size but John managed to turn a piece of Nylon down on the lathe so i still used the Thrust outlet cover. With import taxes and shipping it wasn't worth sending it all the way back over the pond.
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Jet_jase

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I was able to get up to Loki HQ this week for a few days and help John out (I live 3 hours away). We had to tidy up the edges and trim the hull where we had bonded the 2 halves together, the nose of the ski was a pain and slow.
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Graphics next and i'm glad i was there to help out as it was defo a 2 man job. The Graphics Chris designed me where really great to work with, forgiving yet strong enough to take some abuse.
The bottom of the hull was the harder part getting the graphics to go neatly over the tubbies, with a bit of heat and patience they went on.
Putting the graphics on really made me happy with the colour choice i went for, This thing is really going to stand out and that's what we wanted.
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Jet_jase

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Next we tackled the turf doing the rails first, the blue waffle turf was special order from Hydroturf direct as most dealers here only stock the basic colours.
We padded the tray with 26mm under padding ready for some heavy landings. The firewall was padded with 10mm padding with 2 layers added to the underside of the front foothold to make it nice and snug for when i kick in.
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