Love the four stroke outboards for quiet, mileage, maneuverability, and relative freedom from the threat of explosion. One tenth of a gallon per...
Epoxy/glass Cabosil fillets then increasingly wider glass tapes each layer when still wet makes hard jobs easy and seals so much better. Mixing...
Adequate power With a heavy enough hull without too much frontal area you can get by with less hp per ton. With a smaller boat, the inertia is...
Bug power With the high thrust Yamaha 9.9 hp I can get seven miles per hour which is greater than a 1.34 s/l. Big seas take lots of power...
At a s/l ratio of 1.34, eight knots is a boat almost 36 feet long. The only way to achieve such speed with a shorter boat without a lot of...
Outboard for 27' I run a 9.9 four-stroke extra long shaft high thrust on my Skipper 20. Will do hull speed at half throttle in flat water. You...
Small means more use, less hassel. Nice boat. Lots of economy and maximum enjoyment.
Converted sailboat I converted a Skipper 20 sailboat to a motor boat. A description and a picture is in my post under "Troller vs Trawler"...
Bug This picture is before glassing in the bench. Will get boat pictures with the bench tomorrow as I'm taking Friday off to go fishing.
Converted sailboat My boat is smaller than what is being discussed, but I believe my experiences are applicible. I bought a Skipper 20, shoal...