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Take it to a welding shop and have it skinned in .80 aluminum. It will be lighter weight and come out better. Then doing it out of wood. Also have the seat replaced with a brace, seats and decks in aluminum jon boats are structrual pieces. Hope this helps.

Install 2 bilge pumps. One on a three way switch for on/off/ float and the second on a two way switch on/off. Always remember this. In a boat on the water( two is one and one is none) Don't remove the front deck, decks in jon boats aka flat bottom boats are structrual and removing it/them will...

Neve use PVC to build a blind. Either use square aluminum tube are aluminum conduit.

Lol. It won't.

I own motors from both companies. But the one you like the most and is in your budget. No complaints on either company's products.

Gatortail has just came out with their Z drive. Some kind of new transmission system. So they won't be doing anything like the pro drive anytime soon. MB will never come out with something like the pro drive system. Honestly the cost they gave you and the fact their system has to be "built in"...

Go to Lafayette or Brossard or Lake Charles or New Iberia or Abbeville or Shreveport/Bossier. But whatever you do avoid NO during the Mardie gra season, like it has the black plague. I'm from Louisiana and I would avoid NO at all cost.

That's the "gator" model. I have the plans for the "croc" but not sure the best way to get them from paper to digital and post them.

Are you talking about the "Croc" boat?

I'm not sure about their videos or what not. I had called them to ask about a 25 horse version of their surface drive. While talking about what they were working on, the guy over at Freedom tells me that. They had did away with their motor with the surface drive lower unit and that their...

My info came straight from Freedom.

The freedom outboard is not a mudmotor. It has a typical outboard lower unit and is not designed to be used in straight mud like a surface drive is. Freedom no longer makes the surface drive unit they once did, just the closed loop outboard unit now.

I'm not putting my big backside in a yak or canoe in gator country lol. I hunt straight from my sneak boat with the copperhead and soon the gtr mini.

If you set the transom up to run and handle the big block surface drives. You could find a limited want for it. But with the weight of these boats, I don't really see a want for such a heavy boat for duck hunting.

The pics I have seen. Is it's welded to the bottom of the boat, with two hose attachments that stick up through the floor. The skeg would have been the better place for it, as the skeg is always in the water/mud. Only reason I could see them doing it the way they did, is to get around Freedom...

The outboard power head and closed loop cooling system, plus the quieter exhaust is the way forward, and has been needed in the surface drive world for 20 years. But the fact that they designed it to have to be welded to the boat and not designed to be part of the motors skeg, is pants on head...

Here you go, forgot I had the digital copy as well.

I have a set. You can also find a digital set posted either on duckhunting chat forum or the refuge forum. I forget exact witch forum it is but one of them has a digital set posted on it.

Yep. Triple layup up to the rub rails and top of transom and bow, then wetlander. Decks just get one layer of 6oz glass and three layers of paint.

Oh I'm 100% sure it's very quiet. I been wanting to duplicate a duckhunter out of aluminum and either pair it with my 23 horse copperhead or a new 23 gtr mini. But can't find a shop to work with to build it, they all want to use way to thick of aluminum for my wants/needs. So next boat will...