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Discussion in 'Metal Boat Building' started by black8rec, Aug 21, 2005.

  1. black8rec
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    black8rec New Member

    Hi I am new to the site and i need some info.

    I am the owner of a 16 foot 60 inch btm seaark with a 60/40 merc. jet center console, stripped to the bare necessities. It drafts shallow and runs even more shallow. I am a tournament smallmouth fisherman. I need to go places others can not. I hit reagularly I have a plastic intake and that has been a god sent.

    I am planning on adding a sheet of 3/16" aluminum to the last five feet of the btm between the keels and adding a two inch tunneling in the hull. I am a diesel mechanic not a welder any info that you could give me would be helpfull. What kind of aluminum, design on a tunnel, welding rod types. Seaark has a tunnel but it is huge and I need as much surface area as possible
     
    black8rec, Aug 21, 2005
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