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Submitted By:
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2manyboats
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Date Created:
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12-06-2005
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Description:
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This hull was designed and built in Creole, LA (now devastated by Hurricane Rita) as a commercial fishing, shrimping and trapping craft for use in the flats, swamps, marshes and shallows along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. My purpose will be fishing and duck hunting Louisiana swamps and marshes, as well as North Texas lakes and the Red River. The beauty of this project will be in the eyes of the beholder. As much as I love the sweeping sheer of a classic sailboat and the bold lines of an artfully designed powerboat, this ain't one of them...
This project will attempt to solve three issues: 1. No original floatation. Compartments will be created to contain 2 part, 2 pound polyurethane foam. 2. Old, worn and nasty carpet. This will be replaced with a rubberized polyurethane coating. 3. Small planing surface due to the 15' length and long bow sweep. This means the boat porpoises when lightly loaded, and when getting on step the stern drops too much. Bad for real shallow water. After much deliberation, including thoughts of cutting the hull and adding a few feet of length, I decided to add planing pods to the stern for a variety of reasons.
The hull is built of 1/8" welded alum. plate with welded longitudinal stringers and sheet alum. floor riveted to tops of stringers. OB is 2000 Merc 40 w/custom SS surface piercing prop. Tunnel allows running through about 12" water depth depending on the bottom. Rock bad, mud and sand good.
Floatation Discussion: My goal for floatation is to keep the craft salvageable and hopefully bailable after a swamping. After a fairly detailed dimensional survey of the hull, I conservatively estimated its weight to be approximately 480 pounds, based on aluminum weighing 165 pounds per cubic foot. In a swamping, let's say half the hull is under water as a conservative measure. The hull when swamped thus displaces 86 pounds of water, with water weighing 59 pounds per cubic foot. For the hull then, I need 394 pounds of floatation/ displacement. The OB weighs 204 pounds, so I need 598 pounds of floatation/ displacement minimum for the boat and motor. Obviously, more floatation will be required at the stern. Additional floatation will be required for gear, etc. As shown in the following photos, 710 pounds of floatation/ displacement was added. Hope my math is correct, although I do plan a controlled test swamp...
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Tools / Materials:
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Go to the Boating Store
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New Stern Pods
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New Stern Pods
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New Stern Pods
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Durabak liner paint job
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Pod Detail
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View from Bow
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Bow detail
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Doel Fin Before
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Doel Fin after
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