CaptSport

PAR, Chuck and Action, Thanks for the recommendations and advice, I don't think my housing association would appreciate me building a temporary garage extension though. So, the build will have to be completely contained in the garage. I do have a 24 foot enclosed trailer I can store materials in, and I have room in the basement for storing some stuff. Currently I'm finishing the garage so I can heat it this winter for "projects" not unlike this boat. Thanks again, JR

Wow, the support here is incredible! Thanks all for the encouraging words. Designer thanks for the visual aid, that helps a ton, visualizing how it will fit in my garage and ensuring I have enough room to work. A little background on my goal for the project is something similar to a Robalo R227 albeit in a bit smaller package. I don't have need for a toilet closet like the R227. but I would like two consoles I could store dive tanks/fishing gear in, with a wrap around windshield. I'd love twin's as apposed to a larger single outboard, not sure if that's in the budget but it'd be nice for redundancy offshore. I'd leave the interior wide open with only two pedestal seats for room to gear up for diving, and a smaller bait tank thrown in somewhere. I live in Vermont right next to Lake Champlain and would like to be able to pull water toys on the lake every now and then. But I also spend two weeks every summer diving and fishing off the North Carolina coast, which is what attracted me to the B & B designs in the first place, built for the local waters I want to frequent. I also would like to frequent the coast up here in the North East as well to chase Striper's and False Albacore. I guess basically nz lance's boat without the cabin. Thanks again all, I will patiently await the updated design, JR

HI all, First let me say that the projects on this forum are incredible and inspiring, the attention to detail you guys put into your boats is awesome. . I'm interested in an OC20 and was wondering if it could be built in a standard 2 car garage? My garage is 21' x 21' which gives me about 29' on the diagonal, but is this enough room? At the end of the day the boat needs to tuck into the garage and the door needs to be closed. Also, how difficult is it to make changes to the plan? I really like the looks of hull Lotus is building and like him I will be taking it offshore so would like the deeper hull as well as the euro transom with a walk thru. I would also like to build it as a dual console. I've had center console boats and have been on many of them as well and to me there all cold and wet. I'm not interested in being cold and wet anymore. I want to sit comfy behind a nice full width windshield. Thanks in advance for you responses and input. JR