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Re: HB16

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Stumbled onto this https://www.whalyboatsusa.com/product-page/model-500
Very much like what I'm trying to achieve. This boat isn't wide enough and not enough freeboard but has the look and utility I want.

jacquesmm, any input on NidaPlast panels for the sole? How thick?

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Re: HB16

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bklake wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:13 am Stumbled onto this https://www.whalyboatsusa.com/product-page/model-500
Very much like what I'm trying to achieve. This boat isn't wide enough and not enough freeboard but has the look and utility I want.

jacquesmm, any input on NidaPlast panels for the sole? How thick?

Those Whaly's are interesting boats, however they are way way different from a HB16. I would say it is closer to an FS17 than the HB16. They are basically like someone made a mold using a RIB as the plug and then used that mold to make a giant plastic boat. Super heavy for what they are.

There is a gentleman on youtube local to me 'Fishermanslife' that uses a smaller Whaly in the pacific ocean and SF bay regularly, worth checking out his page if you are interested in the boats.

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Re: HB16

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The Whaly is not for me. What I like is the front ramp like the HB16 and the general feel. Not many boats in this configuration. Sort of a mini landing craft. Many sand bars and little beaches to pull up to around me. Other than the outline I had in my mind for a boat and the ramp, the Whaly and the HB16 have nothing in common.

I plan to build the HB16 without the cabin.

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Re: HB16

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Still in the thinking stages of this. Everything at work is full steam ahead and materials are difficult to find and expensive. Thinking and pondering is all I have the resources for now.

I did find this boat in an old Popular Mechanics magazine from 1966. https://books.google.com/books?id=89MDA ... &q&f=false The boat starts on page 148. This boat is exactly the size I had in mind and 98% of the configuration I was looking for. I marked up my HB16 plans and ended up where this boat starts. To my untrained eye, it looks like the designer had early ideas of stitch and glue but made it just conventional enough to satisfy the traditionalist of the time. Plus it's a multi hull so that makes it even cooler.

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