With an outboard motor of 6 horsepower I would suggest that a dory style boat would be suitable.
I like this boat. The only suggestion I could offer is to wait to make the deck mold until after you have done water trials with the hull under...
There is no reason to have even a two horsepower engine on this boat except that you may not be able to find a smaller one.
I would suggest you make the transom the right height for the motor all the way across (or nearly so) and you can try it in any spot that you...
Stian tries out Gillian's kayak
Gillian's kayak
Perhaps you should investigate the possibility of a twin hulled boat of the size you are considering. I have no experience with them but have...
If you really want it 12 feet wide I would suggest you make it around 8 feet longer.
Great photos, Todd. Thanks for posting them.
There are quite a few small commercial trollers in SE Alaska that use the amount of power you are contemplating and run very nicely. So you are...
Why not ask Dave Vacanti what he meant or to expound on his rather offhand comment? I am confident he is still alive if he is still in business....
A few years ago I drew a lines plan for a fellow who wanted to build a 22' flat bottomed skiff for sport fishing here on the lower Columbia River....
norwester, The Whatcom County museum has a collection of designs by H. C. Hanson. He drew plans for a lot of fishing boats, so there must be a...
Surely you must know this. Any two points on an unrolled developable surface are or can be connected by a straight line. I think you have to...
