What style boat am I looking for ...

Hello all, I believe I've found the right forum for a couple questions. If you don't mind, I'm sure someone here can point me in the right direction. I wanna build a river-runner style boat for the South Fork of the Snake River, in Idaho. A boat that can be rowed for fly-fishing but powered with a 60/40 jet drive outboard as shown below, which will eliminate the need for shuttling between put-in/take-out ramps.

I've looked over the Glen-L-Marine "Scramber" design and this is in the direction I'd like to go ,,, I really like this ....



But something about the front and sides of the design, don't do it for me.




Can anyone point me in the right direction for the design I'm looking for? Is there a similar commercially made manufacturer, or plan available. I wanna MIG and TIG the project once I know the direction to go?

Any help you can give would be appreciated ... and I'll gladly show the project's progress here within your forum, once underway. Thanks Guys/Gals - Aaron

 

I am not aware of many plans for aluminium boats. Here is Duckworks' metal boat section, and there isn't much suitable. Buy 2nd hand?
Plans & Kits - Plans by type - Steel and Aluminum Boats - Page 1 - Duckworks Boat Builders Supply https://duckworks.com/steel-and-aluminum-boat-plans/

 

Unless you have actual reasons why you don't like the front and sides, get over it.
If it meets your SOR and is a successful, proven design then that's the best you're going to get.
Follow the design exactly and you'll be a happy camper at the end of your build.

OR

Buy what meets your SOR used, at a fraction of the cost and effort.

 

Power drift boats or power drifters typically have a high pointed bow versus the pram bow you show. They are really gorgeous and the pram bow, imo, is just not. The challenge of going from a pram to a pointed bow in dev surface is above my abilities.

I’d say if you can find a s&g garvey then maybe you can see if anyone can tweak it for you. But there are probably also some dev surface plywood drift boats you can mod to ally as well.

 

I found this one which is too pretty to not share. The file type is not valid, check the link.

https://www.downhomeboatworks.com/copy-of-solo-slider

 

C. Dog and Fallguy your replies are so helpful thank you. That's why I came to you guys with this post. This has got me clicking in the right direction. Fallguy, that wooden boat IS beautiful ! Thanks guys - Aaron