Need Help Please - will this hull handle the weather in Port Phillip bay?

Flat Bottom Hull - Easiest to make and low water resistance. Wobbles a lot in waves. Examples of flat bottom boats might be Jon boats, small utility boats, and some high--speed runabouts.

Vee Bottom Hull - Very little wobble in waves, but more water resistance. Many runabouts use the vee-bottom design.

Round Bottom Hull - Works well at slow speeds, but requires a keel/stabilizer. Many trawlers, canoes and sailboats have round bottoms.

Multi-Hull - The most stable of all designs, but also the most complicated. Catamarans, trimarans, pontoon boats and some houseboats carry the multi-hull design. The wide stance provides greater stability.

 

so which one's mine? ^^^^ hahah im sooooo lost

i think its the round bottom hull which people say is bad and wont be able to go out to portphillip bay. is that true??

 

Fair enough, and I'd also fancy it might be a bit of a nightmare in a following sea, unless there is some kind of keel, which I can't see.

 

It is effectively a shallow-vee hull with a 'soft' chine aft. Looks like something from the late 50's or early sixties.

 

Yep no keel, now i am heading towards not building it. wow what do you think this boat was used for??? rivers,, lakes?

 

Certainly not offshore or open bay waters, if you had a long stretch of water to travel across. I'd say she'd be nice and stable at rest, though. Would be OK for poking round if the fishing spots were close to the launch ramp, but I wouldn't volunteer for a 100 mile round trip in a metre of chop !

 

mmmmm... then the best thing to do is sell it wow i liked it soo much as well just because it was big but it cant even to what my 16ft boat can do.

 

What is your 16 foot hull brand ?

 

No clue buddy but i love it.. never had a problem here a picture.

 

Not sure, but it looks like a Monark hull to me.

 

Ok thanks for the info.. but one thing i know is it works very well and have been out on very choppy weather and handles great. Later on the track i want to buy a new boat but for now does my job.

 

Third photo on page 1 shows a very flat bottom aft with some curvature, and given that Port Phillip has short, steep waves it would bang and crash a bit, but remember, all the old pro-boats were round-bilge timber, slow but sure. She would possibly be a flier on inland waters but probably uncomfortable in the bay.
In any case, definitely a renovator's delight and slightly more than a weekend's work there, but properly done could come up a treat.

 

that boat rego if its a VIC number is over 40 years old
on the first boat

 

wow so the first boats rego is over 40 years old!!!!!

how did you know>??

 

because my fathers boat is similar and was registerd in 69 in melbourne
Unless they reuse old numbers then maybe not?