I used a 9.9 longshaft 2 cycle Johnson. It had me at 15 mph measured over a mile with 2 people on board (300 lbs). A test with the 9.9 Honda 4 cycle yielded a...
I am getting close to ordering the ply to build a Tennessee. I am hoping to get away with sheathing only up to the waterline with epoxy/glass, and therefore...
... It varies by 10x or more depending on whether you can store the boat under cover, and also depending on the climate. Have you considered MDO overlay...
Did Phil explain his aversion to MDO? The only thing on Esther Mae that is MDO are the squat boards, while the worm borers have made their way into it from...
I built an "Elegant Punt" eight years ago and a "Surf" three years ago, both with Okoume marine BS1088 plywood from World Panel Products in Riviera Beach,...
I have been thinking about gas and Bolger designs. Fritz Funk made a cruise in his Sneakeasy on the Mississippi a few years ago, 200 miles on 12 Gallons of...
I am hoping to use her as an ecotour-type charter boat with a 9.9 four stroke, although with the mileage you are getting the bigger motor is tempting. I plan...
I have a friend who has a Grady White 27' he uses for inshore charters. He burns 100 gallons of gas per trip. The charter fishing industry is dying, I...
If you're planning on taking passengers for hire, I bet the Coast Guard may have something to say about what materials you can and cannot use. Things change...
There is or was a chartered Tennessee in the Keys. Capt, Linda did group and private charters aboard Mangrove Mistress. My wife and I chartered with her four...
... All the more reason that the new PB&F 'Blackfish' fuel efficient New England fishing boat concept makes sense. They have hinted that they have a version...
There are those who just like being envied and I think they will stay below at the dock with their marina mates and consume more beverages. A 2 million dollar...
I played around with using Weston Martyr as a starting point for designing a motorsailer to fit inside a 40 foot shipping container. I widened it to 7.4 feet...
Go for it.I've just been watching a couple of videos of narrowboats being taken to sea round the coast of the UK,admittedly in very good conditions. I think...
... Hi Fred, Another option would be to use regular marine plywood or MDO that's been manually treated with Copper Naphthenate. Apparently the CN doesn't...
In the midst of a constructing frenzy on my sharpie, I was curious if qanyone had done any research on some of the new tape/glue combos Im seeing on...
Having spent a thousand nights or so aboard Loose Moose 2 at anchor ( and another thousand or so on our Jessie Cooper) I think that it is important to point...
The best is fiberglass tape and epoxy, whether you use it or not ( and I really dislike it) depends on the size of the boat cost of materials and time to...
Bruce et al. I was not disparaging fibreglas tape and epoxy but merely commenting that you can build an OK boat with drywall tape and PL. At this point in my...
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:18 AM, loosemoosefilmworks < ... Some years ago when my son and I motored June Bug across Lake Vermilion (a large lake in northern...
I experienced a very simular kind of thing an a Fantaisia 35 she had a v bottom with a very large turn in the bulge and a large radius at what would be the...
Yep I think you've been around. What I was trying to say was that yours mine or anybody's boat may prove different in different waters or they may not. Which...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
