Hobie 17 re-do

[GOTTABSOMEWHERE]

I am heir to floats and beams from a HOBIE 17' soooooooooooo.......

This looks like a great fishing, crabbing, snoozing platform.

Is there any plans/designs/ideas of installing a "deck" where the tramp
used to be ?

I probably would use small motor or row out on the bay,

See myself on a lawn chair, surrounded with crab traps.

Any creative thoughts ?

[bruceb]

Keep it simple and light. The 17 hulls are cut down 18 hulls, and 18s make good pontoon boats. Several conversions were produced. You have to keep it light- about 450 lbs for you, crew and the platform and motor, max. That is about all the 17 hulls can support and still work well- or I have most of the parts to turn it back into a sailboat Hobie didn't sell very many, but they were a pretty nice cat. Bruce

[ThomD]

Reminds me of these guys who cycled a couch to Prince Edward Island:

http://www.bikeforest.com/cb/cb.php

The video version is best.

If you look through the project log for Duckworksmagazine.com, you will see that several people have done the very thing you suggest.

Sorta:

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/02/...dsen/index.htm

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/02/...reen/index.htm

It is a little tough because building decks is the heaviest part of a boat, and there is a reason why they went with nets on the beach cats.

I made a boat that was designed to be a 16' catamaran fishing boat, like a bass boat but low resistence. I think it worked out a lot better from a blank piece of paper. The Hobie doesn't really have the right departure point, but you can judge for yourself.

Next step up for either of us would be this?

http://epoxyworks.com/25/index.html

[GOTTABSOMEWHERE]

BRUCEB

I intend to be in Dallas GA week of May 13th................Where are your
HOBIE PARTS at ...................maybe I can break loose and take a look.

Only thing I might possibly need is tiller/rudder set-up & mast fittings.
What do you have for sale ?