Help drawing and design Texas Scooter boat

Excellent! She is coming along nicely.
I would be a bit concerned about the 'puzzle joints' though (I think I would have gone for traditional butt straps) - although I am sure that you will have substantial longitudinal girders / stringers helping to tie the sheets together inside the hull.

 

My comment may be irrelevant or too late, but bateau.com sells full build plans for a boat very much like you're building. TX-18. I bought the plans, just for inspiration for a different project. Should be very helpful, even if you just cherrypick the good ideas.

 

Thanks Dog, I have built a couple boats from boat builders central. I have been using some of there specs for this build as well.

 

Cool. The Texas flat boat from those plans is a Hickman Sea Sled, so I was pretty stoked to look them over.

 

Yea I thought it was a cool boat as well. This boat will mainly be used for backwaters were most can’t go. My family and I also love to gig flounder. Most of the areas I fish here I also wade some it sure makes getting in and out easy

 

Got a little more done on the build,

Inside seams taped:
3 offset layers of 6” 12 oz biax

Transom installed:
2 layers 3/4 ply laminated together with thickened Epoxy
Taped in with 3 offset layers of 6” 1708

Cut out and assembled keyslot transom, all tacked in and ready for taping.

The cut out in lower section of the clamping board is for the tunnel

 

I have the mid section stringers cut and ready for assembly as well.

Next step is to glass the inside of the hull,

2 layers of 12oz biax cloth

Then I can install tunnel, stringers and complete the box frame for transom. Sorry for the slow process but a lot of thinking and planning for each step.