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by Dr Pete
Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:53 pm
Forum: Power Boats
Topic: Tunnel
Replies: 7
Views: 652

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...
by Dr Pete
Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:08 pm
Forum: Power Boats
Topic: Tunnel
Replies: 7
Views: 652

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...
by Dr Pete
Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:36 pm
Forum: Power Boats
Topic: CCTXF20
Replies: 67
Views: 15305

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.
by Dr Pete
Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:29 pm
Forum: Power Boats
Topic: CCTXF20
Replies: 67
Views: 15305

Re: CCTXF20

Port Aransas Wooden Boat Festival is this weekend. Come and visit us again!!!
by Dr Pete
Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:04 pm
Forum: Power Boats
Topic: Gf16 extra hull glass
Replies: 12
Views: 871

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.
by Dr Pete
Thu Jun 22, 2023 2:36 pm
Forum: Power Boats
Topic: building xf20
Replies: 243
Views: 24894

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.
by Dr Pete
Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:45 pm
Forum: Power Boats
Topic: building xf20
Replies: 243
Views: 24894

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.
by Dr Pete
Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:14 am
Forum: Power Boats
Topic: building xf20
Replies: 243
Views: 24894

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...
by Dr Pete
Thu Jun 22, 2023 7:24 am
Forum: Power Boats
Topic: building xf20
Replies: 243
Views: 24894

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”.
by Dr Pete
Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:59 pm
Forum: Power Boats
Topic: building xf20
Replies: 243
Views: 24894

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