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  • Birthday 09/30/1974

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  1. I have seen the formula before for maximium horsepower limits for small boats. However, today is not my lucky day. Does any one out there know it and could you pass it along? Trying to come up with a size for my boat.
  2. Fyi. Not sure why you want the trailer. Are you planning to pull it behind a pick up?? Not a good idea. Even though some heavy duty pick ups are rated up around 10,000lbs towing capacity if you read the fine print it says "properly equiped" on mostly level ground. Ever seen it level around water? At the ramp? Anyway all this brings me to my point. Are you wanting a trailer to haul it out while you overhaul it and return it to the water? Or for trailering it back and forth every time you use it? If it to just want it home for a while consider a boat moving service. They really are not all that expensive and are insured. I drove a semi-truck for well over a million miles. Two years of it hauling boats all over the country. From small aluminium boats and pontoons to the really big boats needing full escort. There is much more to moving a boat that size that your average bass boat. Trust me, if you want to trailer it consider buying a used comercial boat moving trailer. My brother-in-law works for a boat dealer where i am from and is selling theirs for 7500 I think. Maybe less, but it is pretty nice. If you spent some time looking I am sure you could find an older one cheaper. An old semi truck can be had for a few thousand more. Those old boats were built right. Built right meant heavy though. I'd say closer to 8000 and adding in the weight of the trailer itself is simply beyond the pick up. Be safe out there. The life you save might be mine.
  3. The issue you all have overlooked is cost. Sure plans cost money. Building materials cost much much more though. If a 1,500$ set of plans is purchased and followed through materials waste is at a minimum because a designer tested his/her design before selling it. If you get a plan for free somewhere (be it stolen form the designer,a magazine, or and old outdated plan online) you get what you pay for. When you need to contact the designer for advice or perhaps an unclear design element, you can't and are forced into "trying to figure it out". That can cost thousands in lost hour and materials waste doing it wrong and then fixing it. One set of plans = one finished boat. Want more boats built, buy another plan. Or learn from your first build and design the rest yourself. Good luck with that though. A good plan purchased is a savings of money, not an expense. Besides that if designers didn't make money designing boats, how could we expect them to continue to survive to keep designing them? You spend a lot of time in construction how would you like it if someone waited till you were finished and then stole your boat when it was done? Same thing my friends..same thing. Hard work is hard work. Pay for it.
  4. Well, Frank you just have to learn to side cast. Learning is so worth it though. Imagine a small propane grill hanging over the water with fresh caught fish sizzleing on it. The stars overhead...a light breeze at your back..your best girl with you. That is what boating is all about. Dream on Skovian and may your rods be bent with tonights dinner!
  5. That is very nice!! Building it yourself you know where everynail screw and splinter it gave you are! Great job!
  6. Ok here are some pictures from the build. I am stalled out upside down and waiting to attach and glue up the bottom. A record heat wave has hit the midwest. Kind of figures though. I waited forever to take the pickup to pick up the materials and the day I start building it it downpoured rain. Before that it hadn't rained in a month. It's been a blast though so far. All my neighbors come out every time I work on it. Even the mailman has to stop and check it out. So far, it has far exceeded any expectations. I know it is my baby but the pictures don't do it justice. I think when I am done it will be much better than any aluminium jon. Besides that who ever heard of a 12 footer with a beam of 4 foot??
  7. I am a poor family man from southwest Missouri and love to fish our local rivers and small lakes.

  8. I have been dreaming about building my first boat for a long long time. Being a practical person though, I couldn't see spending more on materials to build one than I could buy a proven design made out of aluminium. I found these old plans from the forties or fifties online free and studied them for over a month. I looked up materials pricing and made the plunge. I bought all the lumber at the local big box store and spent less than 40$. Yep, forty bucks. I used osb for the sides and bought 8 foot studs for the frame. I ran the studs through my table saw and cut 1/4 inch off each side to use later for trim and then ripped the rest down the middle to get square boards of 1 1/2 inches. After buying the glue and screws to put it together my total is around 55$. I figure at the water and done for right around 75$ total with paint. Can anybody beat that budget for a 12 foot flatbottom jon?? I have some pictures of the build if anyone is interested. jon-boat-plans.pdf
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