boats

[Nebe]

I know slipknot is building a skiff.... anyone else here build small boats??

I built one of these about 6 years ago before I started my glass thing....
18ft, 42 lbs... Awesome fishing platform.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Very very cool....

[chris L]

stripedbassguy ( aka Patrick ) builds boats and ships for shallow water tuna fishing with sharks with light tackle and hip boots with his not so trusty girlfriend windy and his brother . oh yeah he also designs fighting chairs for canal tuna fishing for giants .
but he was banned from this site . you can find him at noreast.com or the US Navy LOL .

[Nebe]

banned?? gotta be a pretty big a-hole to get banned.

My yak is sitting under a huge pile os snow and ice... To be honest, I dont think she'd flaot after all water that froze in her..... Spring will bring repairs, paint and maybe a fishfinder:

[RIROCKHOUND]

Eben,
Hummingbird made (still makes?) a great little battery powered fishfinder.. I have a slightly bigger model in my whaler, run it off a car bat.. about 100 bucks... but dont use it often... I love shallow water

[Christian]

my dad built one a while ago , chesapeake light craft, mill creek. its also covered in ice and snow.

[Nebe]

yep... chesapeake light craft. Mine is as chesapeake 18. I flaked and got the kit.

[Young Salt]

My brother has worked at boat yards ever since he was out of high school, he's a great carpenter, works on some of the older america's cup boats & other fancy J-boats . last year he decides to build himself a dory. from start to finsh took him about a year, counting all the beer breaks
Whenever he needs a hand with anything on the boat, I was the guy to help him so you could say i partially built it too - we hammered over 100 rivets in it

Note the tie-off at the corner.

[Young Salt]

Finished it this november, it got wet once, just to see if it would float.

[Young Salt]

1 more...just look at those curves.

[tlapinski]

Eben, if you caught a 50 out of it, would it count cause you made it or still be disqualified since it is a boat? nice job.

[Slipknot]

SWEET BOATS!

[Nebe]

Youngsalt thats one hunky dory you got there... you can tell someone put the love in that one..

toby- I dont think it would count. boatfish dont count period.
But, if I hooked into a cow, paddled into shore, got out and landed it on shore does that count?

[tlapinski]

Originally posted by Eben
toby- I dont think it would count. boatfish dont count period.
But, if I hooked into a cow, paddled into shore, got out and landed it on shore does that count?

now you are thinking!

[justplugit]

Eben,i haven't built one but if i did it would be an original Carolina Skiff bass boat. The lines on Young Salts dory reminds me of it's lines. They were made up to the early 50's and designed to take the heavy Cape Hatteras surf.
The 18ft is beautiful with an outboard motor box and tiller. You can still get the plans from the Wilmington N.C. Museum.
Just dreaming here.

[Nebe]

Bass boats.... yummy!

I wouldn't mind a cuttyhunk bass boat with a diesel inboard....

one day:

[Seahoss]

Eben, very nice job on your CLC. I have been thinking of building a 13' Millcreek just for fishing. Here is a picture of my Georgian Bay I built a couple of years ago.

[justplugit]

Awesome Seahoss,awesome. What does it weigh and what did you finish it with?

[Seahoss]

Hey Justplugit, Thanks. The boat is 17' weighs about 40lbs. The finnish is MAS slow set epoxy and three coats of Captains varnish. Any thing you build with epoxy needs to be covered with something that has UV protection. The sun really destroys epoxy. I am using the same epoxy on my plugs and seems to work good.

[justplugit]

It's a beauty and sure beats my 13ft ,55lb cobra fish n dive in looks and weight. Still alot of fun fishin the backwaters with it.
Post some pictures when you finish the millcreek.