Another Chugger Hits the water

[lewisboats]

Bonne Chance: A Chugger lengthened to 16 feet and widened to 6 ft... launched and motored somewhere along the ICW

[hoytedow]

That's real nice, Steve.

[lewisboats]

Wish I had built it...not my butchery style though Just a sort of open source "design" of mine... it has to have a vague resemblance to one to be included in the "class" and called one.

[hoytedow]

It looks like the most flotation for the buck.

[michael pierzga]

Nice chugger !

Next time put more camber in the cabintop to lower the profile and give centreline headroom

[Manie B]

Love it
congrats to the owner

[Wavewacker]

Hmmm? Now, if I attached the 30' cat hulls to this and used it as the cabin, I could detach my hulls and anchor them out and buzz to shore and only pay the marina fee for a 16' er>

Nice job!

[beachcraft]

Was a tally kept of the number of hours that went into building this boat?

[lewisboats]

I don't know...I do know he has been at it for about 9 months. He had help from a professional carpenter friend (front windows, rear seat framing and some other stuff).

Here is the building log with 192 pictures...all with captions.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidshare/collections/

[troy2000]

An inspiration to those who are sitting on the fence, wondering whether they could and should build a boat.

Love the swimsuit model in the second pic, too. Hopefully, she'll have a copy of it to show her grandchildren.

[mathew12]

It’s really cool to see this chugger .Very huge .does anyone knows how many people can ride in this chugger?

[lewisboats]

It isn't meant to plane, so it can carry a fair load in his configuration. I would have to sit down and calculate but I expect he could carry up to 6 people...4 adults and 2 children with no problems. It would be best if a couple of them rode in the cabin to distribute the weight a bit better.