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Air Boat Survey

Waterthunder

Waterthunder

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I need your guy's help before I build an all new boat!


What is the most preferred color for an airboat?

What is the most preferred length?

What is the most preferred amount of seating?

Polymer or Slick Bottom?

My answers are any color but Black,Red,Green

13 or 14 ft

3 people

Polymer.
 
You talkin a glass boat or a metal hull?

I like Black Hulls for glass. Aluminum is better with just trim or accent paint.

I prefer 12' for only 2 people. (99% of my running is just me aboard)

Slick Bottom for glass and Polymer for metal hulls. If your having a glass hull built ask them to use tooling gell not regular gell coat. Its twice as hard and twics as slick. Run it with no coating on the bottom for a year or so anyway then do slick bottom.

Scotty
 
i like my hull color grey it has not shown hardly any oxidation and when i have ran the ground it tends to still look semi clean it hides dirt well.polished stainless rigging people have been fooled at the age of my boat because it just looks like a clean setup.as far as seating the more the merrier, so if i get stuck i never have to leeve my seat i just point and say do this.as far as lenght i like my 16ft it carries lots of people and supplies on a ride.
 
Unpainted Aluminum hull with any one color on stand, cage, & rigging

16’-18’ with grass rake

3 or 4 people

No polymer
 
Ha! I think I know what you're up to Thunder, but I'm gonna play .....

16'X 8' fiberglass w/ Kevlar added to the bottom layer, and 1/4" Poly, glued on if possible. Spruce stringers.

Light grey color hull with a matt white gelcoat inside. Doesn't get as hot in the Sun, and looks clean all the time.

All stainless riggin so you can run in saltwater if you want to, and it's lighter than aluminum.

Comfortable seating for four, which in my case means two side-by-side 'fat man' seats, rear steer w/center console, and a triple seat forward.

10" walkarounds on both sides. No lockers .... that takes up space and they never seem to fit what you want to put in them.

Bow rail. You only need a grass rake if you run in high grass all the time, and I don't. The bow rail is handy for docking and tying-off at a marina,
to grab when you're loading, or a place to clamp a pair of lights.
 
Black, metallic green, purple, yellow, on an aluminum deckover hull ,natural or polished deck

10 1/5 to 12 ft. long

single driver, double pass.

slick bottom
 
Camo inside & out. Nothing shiney on the whole boat - Not even bolt heads or prop hub.

16' to 18'

seating for 4/5
2 single rear, one triple front (rear seat driver/ center stick dual throttle)

Poly on aluminum.

How many dream boats do we get? I'd like a second boat identical to your li'l deckover boat Thunder. Blue/brushed alum 2 seater

matt.
 
To be honest I have a few new ideas since I built my last boat. I’m going to build a new boat ground up with every trick I know then when I’m done if the new boat runs better I will keep it and sell Modern Times. I have somebody really bugging me about buying my deck over or they want me to build them a new boat that runs just as good. So knowing how few people keep their word or say things they don’t mean I want to use a popular color and style so if this he backs out I don’t have a bastard boat that I can’t sell. It will be an aluminum RIDE BOAT! It will also be much quieter then mine is and of course faster too.
 
I would say a 14 by 7.5 aluminum with a single front driver and double rear and a removable extra front seat in front of the driver with any color
would be good
 
color sceme dark blue with silver
hull would be a 14 x 8 aluminium with polymer rear driver two seats with 3 man seat up front would allow you to carry four comfortable.stainless rigging with color matched stainess wire 2 f00t grass rack with built in step, 6" to a one foot walk around also doubles as a bs seat while parked on the hill or in the run.
 
bubba I must have been reading your mind i was typing as you were posting . I for got to mention high sides
 
I was thinking of either the standard two rear and a single front driver or a Double rear driver and a triple front seat for seating five. I personally don’t like bigger airboats but I can see the practicality and most airboaters nowadays’s don’t run the woods like we use too, so a bigger boat ain’t all that bad. I’m using either a 550HP LS6 or a conventional 454 cubic inch small block. Heck if it’s a barge I could build a 632 BBC but I want this boat to be fast and be able to run thru the forest easily
 
15 x 8 aluminum alumitech hull, with large front deck, 12" walk boards no lockers under them, stainless steel polished rigging, 1/4 poly on bottom and a little up the sides for when your slidin, oh yeah a slider style hull with 22" sides, super quiet exhaust system with x pipe and real effective muffling devices attached also all stainless steel, a super wide quiet prop, a stinger gearbox with an as yet undisclosed but soon available ratio, two three man seats which means four can ride comfortably, a spot for the generator to power the a/c unit to cool the white trash condo on those summer campin trips. Blue accent colors here and there, a high torque low rpm bad a$$ smallblock chevy engine, two optima batteries, a 500 watt inverter, am/fm cd player with boost, a very small nitrous bottle for just on accounta, a 50 gallon tank for those extended dry runnin periods on long weekends, a cooler rack, stainless steel expanded metal floor boards for the rear driver, individual placed stainless steel 1/8" rods for the cage, custom art work rudders by buster at american airbrush, foam filled airfoil of course, queen size airmattress self inflating, for the white trash condo, That ought to get me pretty close. git r dun, coming soon to a swamp near you, "THE LAST P.I." Thats point of intersection for the non-surveyor types on here, and the last P.I. is when its all done for a project.
 
Sounds like you need to involve Faron as your marketing guy, mind you he would be partial to aluminum with accents! :lol:
 
What the heck! after reading cntrys how bout a 14X30 with twin 1400 HP PW's, jacuzi tub, 3 bed room, upper deck with bimini, full a/c for main floor. retractable wheels for the long dry sections and a kegs on tap! :lol:
 
I was being serious. The one thing I will be sure to do is keep it simple and clean. It will either be a Hammant or an Alumitec somewhere between 14 and 16 ft but I want it to ride in the water like an aircraft or LS1 does. I don’t like my airboat to put off a wake. If it’s a three seater it will be 14ft and if I build a 5 seater it will be a 16ft. See I have already gained some valuable info here. I will make a 14ft or16ft boat quieter then mine is now. So the color looks to be green now all is left is how many it should seat?
 
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