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The sides, bottom skins, bulkheads, and longitudinals were all cut from a CAD cd. I did all the decking, hatches, and console by cutting sheet by hand with a handheld plasma cutter. Because the boat was the first of it's kind (that I know of), and since all the pieces were on a CAD drawing, it...

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Tony, If you want a higher boat, like a TDB or a Bankes, you may want to consider scaling up the Honker. The Scaup is a sneakbox and is a low boat by nature. But everything is a compromise. The sides of our boat were raised a bit, but not as much as I probably would have like. But I was...

Tony, I have a larger version of the scaup. I don't know anything about the 18', but they are fun boats in general. There are some things I might do differently if I were to build another, but that's probably the case with any build. I can try to take some pictures if you are interested. - Neil

Ben, I'm partial to aluminum. But it is loud and cold. You would probably want to line your cockpit with some type of deck mat if you plan to sit on the deck. I have a kevlar sneakbox too and that's been very durable. Although nothing is invisible. - Neil

Brandon, The bottom of our original scaup is done in kevlar. It's a very hard cloth to cut. If you lay a piece of cloth out on some wood and try to cut it with a razor, you end up cutting the wood but not the cloth. I think we ended up using a pair of sharp, heavy duty shears. But it is very...

William, There would be a ton of different factors that could influence the price of a hull like this, so it's hard to come up with a "final" price. Some of these could include: 1. Aluminum Alloy - alloy type can greatly affect price. You could use 5086 (our choice), 5083, or 5052. You could...

Charlie, We are putting a 150 hp Yamaha on the boat. Kristan, I don't have a good estimate of how many hours I have in it, but I think its quite a few. Although, a lot of those hours I spent working by myself so that kills my productivity. When my dad has been around to help me it goes so...

Wis boz, There are no rivets in the hull. There are two nylon thru hulls in the transom for the cockpit scuppers, a nylon thru hull that is threaded to a marelon seacock for the washdown intake (the seacock is bolted to a 3/8" plate bracket that is welded to the bottom skin), another nylon thru...

Thank you for the comments. Its been a pretty long road getting to this point. Making the finished hull look nice has been time consuming and grinding aluminum in hot weather has not been much fun. But lucky dad and I are almost done with the fabrication and grinding. The coaming needs to be...

Flying duckboat... trying to flip the boat with the crane to weld on the underside of the topside decks. This didn't end up working so well (even though we've flipped the boat before). The slings were slipping on the hull and we were having trouble creating enough drag on the bottom edge of...

More pictures - bow deck, bow cleat, and leaning post sockets. - Neil This is the main (middle) bow sheet that makes up the bow deck. You can see the two plug weld holes, the cut-out that drops over the bow cleat, and the two cut-outs for the leaning post sockets. The tread plate makes...

Hey Guys, After a week of working on the boat, during some very hot and humid weather, we finally made some progress. Here are a few pictures of the side decks going on and the stern hatches. - Neil Bottom side of the hatch spacer and landing. Topside view of hatch landing. That's...

Thank you Bob. No one will be happier to see it completed than me! I think I may end up using my angle grinders for gang line anchors. -Neil

Thanks. We floated the boat at the ramp with 800 or 900 pounds (600 or so on the transom and the rest on the fuel tank beds) to determine an approximate waterline. I didn't want to cut the holes for the scupper drains below the waterline. The boat seemed to float pretty high with the...

Some pictures of the instrument and hatch cutouts in the console, as well as most of the components sitting in there so you get an idea of what it will look like. I forgot the key switch at the time of the photo. The console will also have a hand rail ( 1" pipe) wrapping around the front and a...

Here are a few more pictures of the motor well and the backing plates we made for the cleats. -Neil Bomar composite hatches The black strips you see in the stern compartments are pieces of black rubber edging material that I am using to finish off the raw aluminum edges. Motorwell...

Hello Everyone, I was finally able to do some boat work this past week. We worked on decking the cockpit floor with the 5 bar tread plate, and cutting the hatch holes for my access plates. Hopefully these will let me hose out the bilge to some extent. The tread makes the flange fit up a bit...

Hey Guys, Unfortunately there hasn't been much new progress since early November. I cut most of the cockpit floor but I cooked my skill saw trying to cut too much of a curve in a plate. I need to rent a plasma cutter and learn how to run that to do the hatch cutouts and the topside deck...