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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: Power Boats
- Topic: Tunnel
- Replies: 7
- Views: 654
Re: Tunnel
Rick the bare bones of the xf20 may not even have a sole in it. It would be very light in that configuration. Finished out with sole, fore and aft decks, center console….the craft will very safely manage 115 hp and likely more. I just reviewed your comment regarding power. 25 hp would be a very poor...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Power Boats
- Topic: Tunnel
- Replies: 7
- Views: 654
Re: Tunnel
I’ve been fishing my XF20 for 3 years now. Power is a 2 stroke 90 hp Yami. 2 features of the boat are when at speed it slides and takes 3 football fields to turn. Secondly the tunnel looses prime and the engine cavitates on any turn. Jack plate all the way down. None of this has impaired fishing fro...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:36 pm
- Forum: Power Boats
- Topic: CCTXF20
- Replies: 67
- Views: 15336
Re: CCTXF20
We’ve got 3 Bateau boats registered to show. My XF 20, a LM 18 and Classic 19. Great place for prospective or active builders to come visit.
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:29 pm
- Forum: Power Boats
- Topic: CCTXF20
- Replies: 67
- Views: 15336
Re: CCTXF20
Port Aransas Wooden Boat Festival is this weekend. Come and visit us again!!!
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:04 pm
- Forum: Power Boats
- Topic: Gf16 extra hull glass
- Replies: 12
- Views: 873
Re: Gf16 extra hull glass
Graphite fiber could add some strength to the epoxy. Graphite powder…not. 1708 on my boat. Epoxy is pretty durn strong stuff. Oyster shell wear and tear will still win out.
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 2:36 pm
- Forum: Power Boats
- Topic: building xf20
- Replies: 243
- Views: 24923
Re: building xf20
Have yet to see a kayak with a hole shot. That’s the water I wade from the boat to fish calf to chest deep.
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:45 pm
- Forum: Power Boats
- Topic: building xf20
- Replies: 243
- Views: 24923
Re: building xf20
Agreed fallguy . But. Depends on how you fish the shallows. I’ll idle or drift out of shallows to deeper water. You don’t take a football to play a game of basketball. I don’t need a hole shot.
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:14 am
- Forum: Power Boats
- Topic: building xf20
- Replies: 243
- Views: 24923
Re: building xf20
For clarity. Boat loaded full, fishermen and gear floats at 6.5”. Planes drafting about the same. I’ve never given much concern to this mystical “hole shot”. I ease into shallows and ease out of shallows. Once on plane cruise at 6-8”. Often position where I can raise the motor up and let the wind bl...
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 7:24 am
- Forum: Power Boats
- Topic: building xf20
- Replies: 243
- Views: 24923
Re: building xf20
Tom I believe the boat came in around 2000#. With 4 fellows fishing and 20 gallons of fuel it drafts just under 6.5”.
- Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:59 pm
- Forum: Power Boats
- Topic: building xf20
- Replies: 243
- Views: 24923
Re: building xf20
115 on the Texas Flats Boat. I’ve fished with him. Gets into real skinny water. Enough deck space to be an effective landing craft for invasions or pirating