Dude you can buy a hell of a boat for under 10k lol. Alot better than a glorified 16ft jon boat. I get he enjoys doing this and is good at it. No knock on him. If you could do this under 1500 then it would be a better option. BUT 10k get real. You can buy brand new tracker with a 50 on it for that. 10k is insane.

I don’t bass fish so I’ve never found a senko anywhere in my boat. Mostly dried up salmon eggs and corkies and spin-n-glos and some yarn and steelhead jigs lol.

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The boat prob had bench seats with foam, adding the cross brace and foaming it don't think it makes that much diff for weight. When you start adding 3/4" plywood now that's adding weight. These are flats boats so not something you want out where waves are going to comer the gunnel anyway. Thought this was pretty well laid out. Each person will persinalize their hulls, like we do for cars.

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@@TinyBoatNation thanks for answering this, For some reason I was thinking that the black garden hose was for draining water from under the subfloor, but now I think I understand it's for the hatches, and any water accumulating under the subfloor should still be able to drain out of the bilge hole in the back of the boat.

Yes, I have some

Why is that?

There's almost 4 other generations of framing. This thing is pretty old old. And you are right it is over kill

1 1/2” rivets through the subfloor into the main frame

@@TinyBoatNation awesome brotha and I believe I heard you say in the video that u used about 80 oz. of foam for the boat

They were just standard, but you can get countersink rivets on our website Tbnation.net

Do you have a video of its fabrication? I like the concept however can't quite make out how you create the attachments to the frame. Help would be appreciated. You have great ingenuity...Keep crafting quality boats. Peace!

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I have no idea The guy I built this boat for was a dud.

Removed the center portion of my boat yesterday, I was shocked to see someone had already used a thick hunk of alum for the main floor, but didn't do the entire floor... for some reason they used wood for the floor infront of the console and under the 2 front storage boxes there... all of it literally crumbled in my hands upon removal... so pretty much have all that alum clean already except for a few pieces then still trying to figure out how the rear was assembled, my livewell sits rectangular long ways front to rear in-between the driver an pass seats so not sure if tracker made it that way or someone cut the main support to put it like that cause I can see from your videos that their should be a support there... sorry so long winded an that things didn't pan out with the other guy, today I picked up a transom saver rod, front an rear nav light bases, and some hardware to fasten the front casting chair base, total boat foam received, 12 gang fuse panel, carpet glue, troul, an some other stuff... can't find any pebble 24x48 gator skin in blk for the bow or any 20oz carpet for a decent price, once I get that I can start to pre assemble an move onto the wiring an motor... good luck to the winner of your build l, hope they appreciate the hard work you put into every boat you touch!

He used a lot of foam in this video, and he also used foam on the subfloor. He does not need to test it. One cu ft of foam supports 60 lb of boat weight with negative buoyancy value (e.g., fuel and liveweel does not count). I think the cu ft of foam used in this boat build can keep the boat floating and two people if the boat is filled with water.

Thank you.

Thanks

@@TinyBoatNation No problem. I'm a former aircraft and auto mechanic and now HAM radio operator/instructor/antenna builder. We use mechanical connections for strength and always solder for good electrical conduction.

Do what you gotta do, man. Just be safe.

@@TinyBoatNation thank you sir!