Jtrees CX25

[peter-curacao]

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[jki4405]

Jtrees,

I just finished this boat not to long ago and as you can see from the pics above, I also went with twin 150 4 strokes. We also fish out of Charleston and im a huge fan of twins when 50 miles offshore. Our boat may have turned out a little heavier than your average cs25 but with this engine setup we could go about 49 to 51 top speed. At cruise, (3500 rpm) we would run 32 mph and get 2.2 mpg for economy. I was very happy with that. Let me know if you have any questions.

Good luck and have fun.
Joel

[wej]

Not on mine either Jtree.

[tech_support]

Jacques will be back this week, he will have to answer

[Jtrees]

Hello everyone,
Thank you for the welcoming words and help with posting my picture.

Thb, I'm gonna be stubborn about the twins over a larger single outboard. I agree completely with the weight, mpg, and drag benefits of one 300 but the redundancy in twins will let me sleep better at night. I'll just have to get up a little earlier to get to the fishing grounds ontime and get a better job so I can afford the fuel

Jki4405, I drooled over your build for quite sometime while you were posting your progress and am glad yall made it back in safe after the bracket issues. Did you end up getting an armstrong bracket? Also, thank you for the speed and fuel economy figures. They are priceless and I feel much better having an idea of range and cruising speed. I had briefly thought about squeezing in larger tanks if at all possible but no longer necessary. I'm sure ill be trying to pick your brain when I get further along in the build.

Shine, thank you, I'll wait for his measurements.

Thanks,
Jtrees

[pelican1]

Your drawing should show 15 3/8" according to my plans. Pel

[tech_support]

For the actual wood used for construction of the boat I was planning on 1088 Meranti from this site for all wood on the boat? Any suggestions for Meranti vs. Okume for the hull? (Excluding the transom which will be Meranti)

Either would be a good choice. I would use Okoume for the weight difference and for bending. Its about 200 pounds (or so) difference in overall boat weight with Okoume vs. Meranti. So that is either a lighter boat with better MPG, or 20 more bags of ice or 30 somethign more gallons of fuel.

[Jtrees]

Nothing exciting to report but I decided I needed to figure out how to post pictures and after a while I figured it out. But I have to resize them because they are getting cut off now but Im in a hurry and will fix em later. These are just a few pictures of some of the stations I have been working on so far. Sorry about the glare. I polyurethaned the pieces before cutting them to save myself from getting excess all over the floor. I will seal the edges after I cut all the stations out.




I was excited about this station cause its basically the transom shape and gave me a feel of the size (width) of the fishing area. The discoloration is from using up an old can of a different kind of poly up and finishing with a different brand. Temporary so I'll let it slide


Thanks for the input on the wood Shine and measurements Pelican.

Happy Boat Building,
Jtrees

[wej]

Are you putting poly on pieces that will become part of the boat or temporary molds/stations???

[Jtrees]

Are you putting poly on pieces that will become part of the boat or temporary molds/stations???

Only on the temporary molds/stations. Im going to make them all temporary instead of using some of the real pieces(1088) for molds. I figured as i build the hull mold and everything fits together as it should ill be able to discover mistakes on the temporary pieces and fix them. Then all I have to do is trace all the temporary pieces onto the 1088 marine ply for the final cuts. Only putting poly on because I was worried as I let the molds/stations sit in the garage for a while before construction the humidity down here might swell them so the measurements might be off. Might be overkill, but im haveing fun.

Thanks,
Jason