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Questions about the boat "orca" from Jaws
Wolf-Leader
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Posted: Friday, January 17, 2014 - 07:26 AM UTC
Since the model company pegasus(sorry bad spelling)came out with a great white shark in 1/16th scale the old imagination started to run wild. So I would like know a couple of things about the bout from the movie Jaws.
Now can anyone tell me where I can get the actual dimentions of this boat?
Does anyone know the dimentions of the "orca"?
If I remember in the movie the shark was approximately 25-30ft long,since pegasus has the model of one which is based on a 9ft female great white,what are your suggestions on what scale the boat should be so the shark would look like its 25-30ft long?
Thank you
Grauwolf
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Posted: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 08:50 AM UTC
Re: ORCA

Boat dimensions:

39 feet stem to stern
Beam...11 feet

Cheers,
Joe
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Posted: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 09:06 AM UTC
" think yer gonna need a bigger boat"
AJLaFleche
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Posted: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 09:14 AM UTC
Here's ta swimmin with bow legged wimmin

Here lies the body of Mary Lee;
died at the age of a hundred and three.
For fifteen years she kept her virginity;
not a bad record for this vicinity.

Fair well and adieu
amegan
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Posted: Sunday, January 26, 2014 - 04:25 AM UTC
Lets make Jaws 27ft long, 3x scale size so new scale is 1/48
so Orca at 39ft is 9 3/4" long and 2 3/4 " beam and in a scale you can get figures in. Clear the water, folks, this one is feasible
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