flat bottom

I would like to build myself or contract with someone to build a wooden, shallow draft workboat hull with LOA LxW dimensions of roughly 49’x16’. Intended use is as a platform on which to construct appropriate weight and height cabins and pilothouse out of lightweight materials to create a...

Any ideas? Pond toy boat to be used under adult supervision. Ideal location - sandy creek at low tide, with shallow water pools and clean sand bottom. Boat size and weight - less than 6 foot long, 3 foot wide, 20lb. Fast-build, epoxy stitch-and-tape/fillet, no decking, flat bottom, 4mm or 3mm...

From flat-bottom boat to partial V-bottom boat. See thread 67268 Has there ever been an attempt to convert a dinghy from flat bottom to V-bottom? My dinghy ict a flat-bottomed Paulownia boat, see thread 67268, and the pounding in short wave in medium wind is just too destructive for me in the...

I recently purchased a 1976 Somerset Houseboat, steel frame, flat bottom, 40ft in length, 1oft in width. In some places the hull has rusted away from the ribs and I was wondering what is the average depth of material recommended for a metal house boat? I was thinking 10 gauge but was curious to...

I have never built a boat before and I want to make a basic one-person flat-bottom wooden jon boat for fishing on calm lake and river waters this summer. Since this is my first boat, I want to be really careful and make sure I do it right. I have found various instructions online, but I can't...

My wife and I were talking about the Pacific Garbage Patch (PGP), and hit upon an odd idea. The PGP is almost all floating plastic. Recyclers buy mixed plastic scrap for $260 a ton. If you could live on your boat and gather 20 tons of plastic a month, you could just barely make a living for a...

Moin moin! Want you to check out my homemade flat bottomed skiff! Really curious ´bout what you´re thinking... Just to invite myself: I´m a non-professional boat builder from Germany. First I was looking at the internet to get a used boat. Like you know I guess, there´re lot of ruins at it for...