Boat Builder Central

I understand that fallguy. I had thought about just going with a jackplate, adding stiff knees off the middle stringers and build a splash well like I did on my sea ox rebuild. I was just hoping I could get extra floatation with the bracket and have a swim platform on the back as well.

I picked up a 22ft c hawk for free and I am planning on rebuilding it for a work boat for my oyster farm. I would like to close in the transom and build a flotation bracket and add a jackplate. I am planning on using coosa, 1700 and epoxy. I still have close to a full roll of 1700 from my first rebu...

Might be a long shot but I was wondering if anyone in North Carolina has built or knows of someone who has built the Duck Skiff. It will most likely be a few years but I plan on building one and would love to be able to check one out in person before diving into the build. I currently hunt out of my...

Hey! Nice work man. Congrats on getting back on the water!!! I know that feels good. I really like your transom mod. I enjoyed your performance review also. You are a touch north of my waters but I will keep an eye out for you next time I am up that way. I appreciate it. I really like the way the t...

The boat has been finished since the end of July. Overall I am happy with everything. The boat ended up being a lot heavier with all the material and foam I added back and definitely more solid. I lost a little speed but compared to the increased ride quality that is no big deal. It has already been...

I’m looking forward to seeing the progress. I expect this to be a cool build. I would love to find something similar to this around my parts one day.

I have been making pretty good progress. I will try to get some pictures up soon but I feel like I have been doing nothing but working and working on the boat. I was going to hang the motor tonight and hopefully have it in the water over the weekend but I am having trouble finding 316 bolts the righ...

Also with the tunnel and engine on the 6 inch jack plate where should the cavitation plate be? I was thinking of starting with the cavitation plate even with the top of the tunnel, like it was before, and starting there. From there I can run the jack plate up and see if I need to move the engine up ...

I ended up with 4 coats and I am happy with how it turned out. Happy enough that I am not going to bother sanding it. https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/services/mediarender/THISLIFE/024030860011/media/1702960361865516/medium/1624069601/enhance https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/services/mediarender/THI...

If that’s the case I will try to roll it on as smooth as I can and if it’s halfway decent I will let it ride. As long as it functions properly I’m not worried about it being pretty