reinforcmants

[black8rec]

Hi I am new to the site and i need some info.

I am the owner of a 16 foot 60 inch btm seaark with a 60/40 merc. jet center console, stripped to the bare necessities. It drafts shallow and runs even more shallow. I am a tournament smallmouth fisherman. I need to go places others can not. I hit reagularly I have a plastic intake and that has been a god sent.

I am planning on adding a sheet of 3/16" aluminum to the last five feet of the btm between the keels and adding a two inch tunneling in the hull. I am a diesel mechanic not a welder any info that you could give me would be helpfull. What kind of aluminum, design on a tunnel, welding rod types. Seaark has a tunnel but it is huge and I need as much surface area as possible