Billing Boats - 1:12 Scale Slo-Mo-Shun IV- wooden hull

Billing Boats - 1:12 Scale Slo-Mo-Shun IV- wooden hullIn the years before the Mariners and other local big league sports teams, Seattle had the Slo mo shun IV hydroplane Slo mo for short. This speedy vessels designers, builders and racers, Anchor Jensen, Ted Jones, Stan Sayers and Lou Fageol became household names when they set the world water speed record on Lake Washington and won the coveted Gold Cup in Detroit in 1950. When the three men met early in 1949 at a Seattle sailboat shop, none of them

In the years before the Mariners and other local big league sports teams, Seattle had the Slo-mo-shun IV hydroplane - “Slo-mo” for short.

This speedy vessel’s designers, builders and racers, Anchor Jensen, Ted Jones, Stan Sayers and Lou Fageol became household names when they set the world water speed record on Lake Washington and won the coveted Gold Cup in Detroit in 1950.

When the three men met early in 1949 at a Seattle sailboat shop, none of them could have foreseen the peculiar and far reaching consequences of their joint venture to build a better race boat. Slo-Mo-Shun IV was indeed better than any previous race boat. 

But she was more than that, Slo-Mo IV touched the hearts of thousands who cheered her on and changed forever the way generations of Seattleites feel about the first week in August.

Kit includes laser cut wooden hull and wooden strips, stern tube with shaft, rudder, fittings set, plan and manual. The Manual has English translations, all measurements are in metric.

Kit Specifications:

Hull - Wooden Plank-on-Frame.

Scale - 1/12

Length - 29.53"

Width - 12.20"

Height - 8.46"

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