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Cowboy, those little duck boats are a blast. I'm wanting to build one very similar to that one this Spring and use my little ultralight motor and prop on it.

They have very little draft and a nice flat bottom. Great video !

olf
 
I have never had anyone accuse me of being sain :lol:

Actual I designed that boat hull specially for doing just that . it was a hybrid crossed between a MOD V bow, V-hull an flat bottom boat with pods and a tunnel the whole boat and jack plate weighed under 175lbs
 
Gold, I love the shape and size of them. I've got a set of plans here that I ordered from Glenn-L a couple of years ago and I'm wanting bad to build one with an air drive.

Cool little boat.

olf
 
Olf art,
thanks my hull design is completely different then what they have but I considered putting a fan powder by a rotax engine on top that jack plate but sold it before I got that far an bought this air boat I have now.
You have any questions when you start building just let me know. are you going to use aluminum or glass

Robert
 
Thought I'd build with 1/4" marine plywood and then cover it with glass cloth inside and out to make it stronger and waterproof.

Did you do anything special to the bottom of this one to make it tougher ?

olf
 
the last few years all my boats have been aluminum ( I tend to be rough on them :D ) now they seem easier to build then anything else. yes I did do several things to make the hull stronger for hoping dikes. First was the bow shape mod V with reinforced support form the bow all the way to the tunnel then the placement of the bends adds strength. after that there where T bar stringers on the flat surface that takes the impact the side have a few extra braces also.

you can see alot of that in this picture
http://www.southernairboat.com/photopos ... ppuser/272
 
Your boat building skills are WAY above mine. I've never done any metal fabrication but I can see from your link that you're very good at it.

I'll have to stay with something I can do on this project, but I really admire you're work. That's pretty craftsmanship, sir.

Thanks !
 
thanks for the complement :D

if you use a wood/glass you can add extra strength with extra chimes in the bottom of the hull and use 1/4 for your bottom and Lund for the sides and deck , sticth and glue will save weight but still may want stringers since your putting a fan motor on there. if you where around here I say I would help ya lay everything out
 
I plan to use stringers, and in general wooden boat construction methods, but I intend to use epoxy in place of a lot fasteners, and light materials.
I taped out the thing on my shop floor once and a rough estimate is that it'll weigh 145 lbs with my engine and prop, cage, and single seat, but no gas.

My little engine is a 24 hp Zenoah 2 stroke. It'll turn a 42" prop DD (56" with belt redrive) and on it's test stand it blows so I thought I'd build the hull so that I can slide it into the back of my pickup on the side rails and not have to trailer it.

olf
 
sounds like a fun project post up some pictures when you get to building it and of course the test run :D

you can get a 3.5-8.9-12.1-15 gal gas tank form a jet ski pretty cheap and mount that under the bow
 
Hey Olf, just a thought I have replaced some stringers in old
glass air boat hulls, just used 1x4s and covered them with
cloth and resin, even with treated lumber they never lasted
very long. But if I ever do this again I will try something new.
At my work ( a concrete supplier that sells rebar ) I noticed
they have fiberglass reinforcing rod in various sizes, and thought
that if you took the 3/4' and stacked it glassing each rod to
the last one, and then covering the entire thing with a layer
of heavy cloth it might be the last stringers you had to put in.
seems like wood is always the downfall of a glass hull.
Just some rambeling thoughts. Kevin.
 
"Geez, James Bond made it accross....!"

That Merc WILL need a new water pump in very short order if it's run out of water. Mercury used to say 5 seconds and it's toast.
 
that mercury has been done like that and in the air completely over in other places on a daily basis during duck seasons for quit a few years with no problems..........now if it was anything except a mercury I could see that :lol: :lol:
 
the orange dike jumper in the James Bond movie (one filmed in La) is sitting in the dry storage in St Marks Fl. (shell island fish camp)
The boat was made special and is all original and looks like it just came out of the box. I have seen the owner catting around here in Destin a couple of times.
the boat was a glastron built by Art Carlson

http://www.southernairboat.com/photopos ... ppuser/136
 
Kinda like the old Dukes of Hazard series ...... there were 7 of those General Lee cars and they had a crew that did nothing but try to keep a couple running for the filming.

olf
 
Heres an old boat I bought off of the game commission,its a 1976 and was built in the panhandle for 3 years. Its a Collins Craft. I stripped it down and then came up with this. It'll do 32 mph. with me and its running a 25HP. Neat little boat, (14') with a big flats design.Later, Cajun

Flats%20boat%20stripped%20001_3.jpg


Flats%20boat%20finished%20005_3.jpg
 
Oh man, Cajun ...... that's beautiful. Very nice.

What did you ever do with that smaller flats boat you bought a few months back ? That's not this one, is it ?

olf
 
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