Builders, I have a KR2 boat that I took off Larry Flesner's hands last month. It was in his way and he wanted to see it put to some good use, so I was going to saw it up for the wooden spars and mahogany plywood material. But it's occured to me that the best utilization of this thing is to use it as a mockup and go-by for somebody building a KR2S. There's a lot of ambiguity in the plans that leads to much head scratching and deliberation, but to have a pre-built boat just sitting in the corner (or even out in the back yard) would be a big head start to a builder. Another very handy function is as a mockup to help the builder determine how wide he needs to make his version, how much leg room, panel and canopy height, and all of those ergonomic details that are difficult to visualize from thin air. Mike Sylvester did this, he'd probably agree that it was useful.
The construction of this boat is pretty decent, but it's a KR2, not a KR2S. The stub wings and tail surfaces are already foamed and covered with a very rough layer of Dynel, so that's another reason I wouldn't try to reclaim the thing and finish building it. The Dynel dates it as about 30 years old. The center stick is installed and the cables are run, so moving the stick around results in aileron bellcranks rotating and the elevator moving. The stick is an interesting thing incorporating a bearing, and seems to work fine. From a hardware standpoint, that's about all that's in this thing. I should probably post photos of this thing but I'm in a real rush to finish my plane up, and would rather not spend the time. And for the purposes of mockups/go-bys, you shouldn't care what it looks like anyway. I'd rather provide some use for this thing to a builder, rather than just saw it up for a little wood. It's in Huntsville, Alabama (northeastern corner of the state), and it can be picked up anytime, the sooner the better. I brought it down on the back of a little Ford Explorer, so it doesn't take much of a truck or trailer to move it. If nobody claims it in the next two or three weeks, I won't feel bad about sawing it up for the wood... Mark Langford n5...@hiwaay.net website www.n56ml.com
