I am working on drawings for the perfect bowfishing boat. Lol I'm going to have a 20/72 30" sides twin gator tails with center console. What's y'all opinion on fully decking the boat 4" below the gunells the entire boat would be storage underneath console would set on deck. I would then build a raised front deck 68"x78" with enclosed light rail. This would allow only having one step from boat deck to fishing deck and allow for a lot of storage space. The only reason for lowering the boat deck 4" is to keep ice chests and fish tub from sliding off. Give me your pros and cons. I popped off the other night and sold my boat I had just finished setting up.
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I am working on drawings for the perfect bowfishing boat. Lol I'm going to have a 20/72 30" sides twin gator tails with center console. What's y'all opinion on fully decking the boat 4" below the gunells the entire boat would be storage underneath console would set on deck. I would then build a raised front deck 68"x78" with enclosed light rail. This would allow only having one step from boat deck to fishing deck and allow for a lot of storage space. The only reason for lowering the boat deck 4" is to keep ice chests and fish tub from sliding off. Give me your pros and cons. I popped off the other night and sold my boat I had just finished setting up.
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I wouldnt deck the entire boat. Especially putting the console up that high. Just my opinion though.
Also, you're prolly gonna want to go flush on any deck you make. If not all the blood n guts will wash right back into your boat.
Also, you're prolly gonna want to go flush on any deck you make. If not all the blood n guts will wash right back into your boat.
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Don't mean the shooting deck would go all the way down the boat. I want to do it like the jet drive boat that gargod and garquest has just with mud motors.
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It would be like ddm's boat on here just with the floor opening decked and a raised deck on front.
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That's the kind of answer I was looking for its going to be 3/16 bottom with 1/8 sides and all decking inside. If it will run 25 on stock motors and get on step I would be fine. This will be used for getting through those shallow spots in rivers where we only run around 10mph tops now
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Martys boat is AWESOME but its heavy and requires alot of motor hes got a 200 or 225 jet pump and yes it runs faster than my 1860 with a 75 prop but not as much as i expected
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I doubt you'd get 25 out of her. Tail and scales boat does that full of fish (i think thats what he said anyway) and a deckover would be MUCH heavier than the boat he has. Maybe trip mud motors? If you dont mind going slow than i guess its no problem but i wanna go fast!
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This is tailandscalesc's post from their boat build thread. If you go to it and look at the hull they have you will see its built to be as light as possible. Hope this helps some.
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What guys?
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I am trying to get prices on this:
I want a 1984 and I mean 84 inch bottom with 3/16 inch thick 5086.
Tapered inverted ribs.
1/8 inch thick 24 inch side 96 inch beam and 10 inch walk around.
Smallest light rail that can be made with ******* fixture.
Center console and room for my fold down fan to fit between the 2 prodrives. Got to have 2 Seastar driving station.
I want a 1984 and I mean 84 inch bottom with 3/16 inch thick 5086.
Tapered inverted ribs.
1/8 inch thick 24 inch side 96 inch beam and 10 inch walk around.
Smallest light rail that can be made with ******* fixture.
Center console and room for my fold down fan to fit between the 2 prodrives. Got to have 2 Seastar driving station.
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Lol you won't get 25 out of it. I know multiple people running dual 35's on the lightest custom hull they could build and they can't top 30.
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The guys at PHOWLER. They are 35's bumped up to almost 50 is what they are telling us. I don't know chit about these things other than what they are telling us. A couple thousand is going towards getting the motors bumped up I know that.
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I would be careful on what you buy motor wise. We've ran the "suped" up vanguards, ran the black death by BPS it was 48 hp with a ton of motor work and had nothing but problems. Even with that do you think dual 50's have more power then a 90 4 stroke? 90 4 stroke on a heavy custom hull that I've seem tops in the lower 30s high 20's
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Thats some good info. Damage has been done already. They already got them bumped up. Wish I would have asked someones input. I guess you learn from mistakes. We shall see first of August see how everythings gonna work for us. So your thinking it won't run over 30mph? That sucks.
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Id be surprised if you get over 30mph before fish, tailandscales hull looks like it was built light for mud motors and thats about all theyre getting, 25 loaded with fish. so depending on how your hull is rigged out id say you wont be going too terribly fast. BUT with the motors hopped up you mite. Ill be interested to see the results as the slow speed and noise is my biggest problem with mud motors
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You mean like this?
I would also hesitate to run that big a boat with surface drive motors as well, heck I ran a 200 and now 175 Mariners and it is a load getting it up on plane with a load in the boat. The more aluminum you put in, the more weight you are adding as well.
My boat is decked over except for the fish tub behind the front deck to keep my fish barrels and big coolers in, everything else is under the deck or in the lockers on the side and I keep my generator under the back fan stand/deck. You just step down off the front deck and can walk all around the boat. No climbing in and out! Love it!
I would also hesitate to run that big a boat with surface drive motors as well, heck I ran a 200 and now 175 Mariners and it is a load getting it up on plane with a load in the boat. The more aluminum you put in, the more weight you are adding as well.
My boat is decked over except for the fish tub behind the front deck to keep my fish barrels and big coolers in, everything else is under the deck or in the lockers on the side and I keep my generator under the back fan stand/deck. You just step down off the front deck and can walk all around the boat. No climbing in and out! Love it!
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