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GF12/ 14 Questions

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Hi Everyone,

My son and I would like to take the winter and build a new fishing boat for the spring. We live about 4 minutes away from a great bass fishery, and have good kokanee about 30 minutes away. I'm looking at one of the GF boats, haven't decided on what size yet. I've spent years looking at build threads and day dreaming about building my own boat, and we're excited to take it on.

What I would like to do is to build the hull, and then build out the inside with an aluminum angle deck, similar to a jon boat to bass boat conversion, and completely eliminate the bench seats. Is this something that I could accomplish with the GF lines? I have seen that the frames on the 16 can be modified, but it seems like I saw that it's not recommended on the 14. I've also considered building in stringers and a sole like Paul did on T's GF.

I'm sure that I'll have more questions once people chime in, so I'll follow up with those later.

Thanks!

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The seats are part of the structure. They are especially important in the GF boats because they don't have any stringers.
You can add decks but not remove the seats, sorry.
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Re: GF12/ 14 Questions

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BW,

Do you plan on remote or tiller steering?

I was just looking at the GF14 study plans and it seems like it would make a sweet little bass boat if you extended the deck between the bow deck and the middle bench to make one big platform. You could probably cut the top of the seat frames down slightly if that was too high. If you were doing remote steering you could put the console on the starboard side of the middle seat and mount a pedestal chair to the floor between the middle and rear bench. Might need to beef up the floor for that in that area.

It seems silly to build an aluminum deck, you might as well build it as one composite structure with the rest of the boat.

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Re: GF12/ 14 Questions

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Planning on tiller steer, I've been studying the same today and noticed the exact same thing. I'm looking now at folks who have reduced the sheer in the bow so I could mount a trolling motor.

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Hi, I have built a GF14 and cut the sheer to mount a trolling motor. You can check the build thread (GF14 in France) or my gallery.
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Unless your limited to room you can build the GF16 with the same materials as the GF14. Just a heads up. Take a look.

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Duplicate.

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