Just for kicks - pontoon pirate ship

[atrudel]

Hello everyone, I've been visiting boatdesign.net for just about 2 years now. It all started when I got it in my head to build a pirate ship, and after reading many of the helpful posts on this site about pontoon ship design I was finally able to pull it off. So I thought it might be nice to put up pictures of my ship to amuse/horrify all the veteran boat builders. Here are some specs:

Laid down: August 20th, 2005.
Completed: August 27th, 2005.
Length: 28'
Beam: 10'
Draft: 1-2' (depending on how much water the barrels nearby took on)
Displacement: 600+ lbs
Crew: 15 (maximum)
Armament: One 1.5" potato gun


Note: Sails won't help that much on a pontoon boat, unless you really don't care where the wind takes you.


Every old ship had a figure at the front, and since carving one out of wood was far too time consuming, this beer add did nicely.


There she goes flying the colors...

[Wellydeckhand]

Did you salvage de lumber plank or rob your immediate neighbour?...Look nice and river worthy...you'll a bunch young and scruffy pirate me lad do bring a couple of lass abroad.

WDH

[marshmat]

Seriously cool. Vive la Quebec!

But only one potato cannon? Gonna need more than that when the wakeboard boat comes by!

[safewalrus]

Handsome

Grand to see the spirit of adventure is not dead! The figurehead looks real cool! (so does the water - in a different way)

[kach22i]

Short summers in Ottawa, looks like you have made the best of it.

Cool.

[tin_soldier]

Great fun, would do great with an outboard attached.

tin

[safewalrus]

typical soldier, wants more noise - no skill