i do see your point about the motors but the above cat has been powered effectively by 1 60 hp big foot merc with four people on board kitted up...
anything you can build out of wood can be built out of foam its just more expensive so a lot of people would ask why for such a small boat with...
go bb ply, the jarcats are pretty cool i have often thought of knocking one up in acouple of weeks sean
[IMG][/IMG] [IMG] its on my list to build but like i said before its taken me three years to track down the only decent set of plans i could...
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as far as i mknow this is the only set of plans and i have searched for 3 yrs that i can find that would do what you want, there was an article in...
bateau boats have quite a few different length panga boats drawn up for plans, up to 33ft i think, quite a few piccies available of the finished...
sorry i meant 100000 dollars aus and 2000 man hours sean
if your prepared to invest around 100000 and 2000hrs of time you can build ply bridgdeck cats about 40ft long that would fill your needs sean
buy a 300$ inverter tig stick welder, do your structural stuff with the stick and your pretty stuff/repairs with the tig, low cost outlay for high...
stianless staples around the edges fired only halfway in so they can be pulled out or tapped in as needed and start rolling from centre out sean
ok i have a few things that i would like to throw out there regarding my new dinghy it doesnt quite have the bouyancy that i would like so i am...
ive heard that you get 80 percent of what a single motor would give you sean
actually it is for the love of it that i would build one(that and the fact that it would work out significantly cheaper for me (3000) to build...
actually for the moment im just chasing info for a foil for the dinghy, so this is where im coming from will i get a performance gain with a foil...
if you have significant others they will love you forever if you give them a normal toilet and i speak from experience sean
well i built a scaled down version of my 6m cat to serve as a dinghy and to see what if anything i might like to change, at the moment im thinking...
http://www.hostmybb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?mforum=easy&t=116&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&mforum=easy ive put a couple of photos up here of...
yes i want to know so that i can place lifting points for hauling up out of the water thanks for the info sean
Does the motor need to be on for this to occur? if i make some drawings in autocad can i calculate the lcb then? sean