1981 Design 360 U-52

 

  Boat Statistics

Boat Name:

 

Year:

Designation#:

 

Design 360

1981

 

U-52

Owner/Driver:

 

Year Model Built:

 

Mike Krone

 

2006

Builder:

 

Construction:

 

 

Jeff Campbell

 

Carbon Fiber

Motor:

 

Speed Controller:

 

Feigao 10xl

 

Castle Creations 80

Prop:

 

Paint Colors:

 

 

Graupner 45

 

White, Red and Gold

Type of Graphics:

 Radio:

 

 

Vinyl, hand painted

 

Futaba

This boat picked up it's second win for Mike at the 2008 Diamond Cup. Right out of the box at the 2006 Gold Cup you could see that he had a good boat on his hands.  He got the unfinished hull in a deal with Doug Tulip.  It's a Jeff Campbell built, carbon fiber hull.  Mike finished the boat and did a great job.  We're certain to see some good things from this one.  

The real boat:  Design 360 was a low budget team running a turbo charged Allison. They only appeared at northwest events. The boat orignally campaigned as the Country Boy driven by Salt Walther. Some of the other names it raced as were Red Man, Owensboro's Own, Miss Shenandoah, and Detroit Radiographics. Tom Martin and Jerry Hopp were drivers for owner Dave Jaeger.