2 man scull boat plans

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P. Revicki

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I have a friend who is looking for plans for a 2 man scull boat. He is looking for something like the ones Lou sells (brant 2x). He and his son are looking to build it, but am sure if someone knows of one for sale he might go that way. Any info would be helpful. Thanks Pete
 
I have a friend who is looking for plans for a 2 man scull boat. He is looking for something like the ones Lou sells (brant 2x). He and his son are looking to build it, but am sure if someone knows of one for sale he might go that way. Any info would be helpful. Thanks Pete
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The Devlin sculls are very high profile - a couple have been built. From those that I remember it seems like the basic plan is sound, but I would dramatically reduce the height.

Sculls do turn over fairly frequently, so they may want to keep an eye open.
 
Pete
Most of the plans are for an all open cockpit for a two person design. Glen-L plans on boatdesigns.com is for 15 foot for 1 person, the plan could be changed to work for two. Lou's boats are 16 foot with a partition for a back rest for the front gunner. I have the Brant II and I put it together from a kit. The fiberglass hull makes for more room inside with no framing or bulk heads. I use mine mostly as a floating layout with camo netting on it. I also drag it up on gravel bars and hunt out of it. The fiberglass hull can take more abuse and makes it easy to repair any scrapes or gouges. I do not know what your friend as in mind, as far as versitility, but he may want to consider more than one use for this type of boat. I know Lou has uses his for floating down rivers and having some flex in the hull helps to get it over sunken logs. If your friend wants to save money , he should check into a kit from Lou. The extra money for the kit verses plan build is worth it in my opinion. Less time and work and maintenance was a real plus when I put mine together. All you really need to get is a heavy duty rivet tool for the steel pull pin rivets. The one with long handles similar to bolt cutters are not very expensive and work great.

Lou has a pattern to make an oar and I have an easier method of making one, without a full length lamination, and an easy way to make an angle at the blade end for a better angle and sweep of the blade only through the water. Lou tried an oar I made and liked it.

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I built the Merrymeeting Bay sculler a couple of years ago, in fact that is my boat on their website.

She is strip built, you need a table saw and router and a bead and cove set of bits, fairly easy build and if you follow the plans it fairly light. I beefed my up substanially and added a fair amount of weight.

In the end, I used it very little to actually scull with, the boat was stable and I used it on small lakes with a 2 hp motor on it, I could also paddle it just as fast.

I posted a lot of construction photos on www.duckhuntingchat.com, do a search and I am sure you can find my thread.

Biggest issue I had was you need a good scull oar or it doesn't work.

If you have any questions or want more pics, shoot me a PM.
 
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