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Originally Posted by lakelandterrier
I'd call taking a mould for an existing size / design, and putting an extra block in to simply make the original hull longer a "stretch" version.
Nothing wrong in that per se, but IMHO of limited time in an RC6.4 and 6.8 as well as my 5.85 the 6.4 was the least good - not saying it's not a capable boat - it is. It could of course be the set up of the 6.4's I've been in.
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That's not what they do, they build the plug for the largest boat in the range , take a mould off the plug then move the transom block forward to shorten the hull for the smaller boats of the range. You cant take a larger boat from a smaler mould but it's common practice to take smaller hulls from a larger mould.
For a builder to stretch a boat they have to take a boat out of their existing hull, cut it in half graft a section in fill it, fair it then make a new mould from the plug. There is so much work in stretching a boat to make a compromised hull that they just wouldnt do it, they would just make a new plug in the correct dimensions.
Admittedly the 6.8 is probably a different animal to a 6.5 but to suggest that a smaller boat taken from the same mould is a better boat is clearly ridiculous the extra length will always win everything else being equal
