nah... but most dont venture to the places I do. No one is as crazy as I am here it seems. I like it that way. I prep my lovely lady at home all the time, one of these days, im likely not to return. All i can do is prep as best as I possibly can and just roll with the punches that are presented.
Perfect and simple.
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this is the only hull I havent done. I did my first two jon boats and a full ducker in wetlander. If I have time, im going to do this hull in wetlander when it gets back from utah and build the blind..... life permitting. Its been kind of a crazy year. Mom in law moving, other parents splitting, im getting surgery soon.... the list of craziness goes on and on. The ducker was sweet in full wetlander though.
This sounds like a bass boat trying to get on plane due to the small area of the boat that rides when on plane. The MSTC runs similar to my bass boat I would say when on plane, only a 1/3 of my hull is touching water, vs my bass boat where maybe 1/4-1/5 of the hull is touching water. Its part of the reason this MSTC hull is so fast compared to other mudrigs Ive been in. Seems the excel boats just kind of plow and even with a big 115 on the back, still that hull has at least half of the hull running in the water at speed. You also never feel that lift up out of water. On a bass boat its obvious, the bow goes way up in the air, you can literally feel the transom pick up and then bow come down and water is skipping out the sides just behind my shoulders when on plane jammin down the lake. MSTC hull, I can feel that lift, and then when I jump from 10mph to 28mph, it takes about 4 seconds and I watch the water spray start skipping from the sides of my hull just where my grab bar is mounted, rest of the front of the boat is lifted out of the air. A huge reason why this boat does so good in shallow stuff, but also why ive had to figure out how to put a winch on it. You can run at speed in next to nothing, but you let off the throttle, ive been high centered and pushing to get it on stuff that floats. Its a nightmare and I had to go through a strong learning curve with that because it runs in shallow stuff (at speed) effortlessly and never feels like you're ever in trouble or starting to get shallow. It doesnt even lose speed, it just rides and rides well. Ive destroyed brand new props by having to trim up, build RPM and just burying the prop back down only moving an inch at a time, but it was all I could do to get the boat off a low spot when I was by myself.
MSTC - Havoc Boats
The first surface drive hull with inverted ribs - a true mud motor rig built around Arkansas timber hunting.havocboats.com
Heres the website and you can see the reverse chine on my rig. I dont think you could build it from how your boat sits now henry. I think it would have to be constructed in a way that the it built the reverse chine into the design. I would go much thicker than what you all are recommended now, as the flats are the primary areas that take the beatings when running ice or bumping those logs, rocks or stumps.
An alternative is to clamp and screw them from the inside working your way along.
Love the Ducker, but your GWP steals the show .RM
That is my plan.
Thats my buddies drathar. Some cool dogs for sure! Not sure any have impressed me enough to not own a lab for bird hunting, but the blood tracking ability that is built into their genes is off the charts impressive. Theres blood tracking and then theres drath blood tracking. Seriously badass! My buddy who owns this dog, his brother killed a deer and gut shot it, called us and asked if we had ol gruff with us. We were just packing up a duck hunt and headed to the mountains. We get up there where he shot the deer, put gruff on the blood and let him work. About 2 miles later, he finds that deer piled up in a bunch of laid down wood. There was no chance we were finding that deer without that dog. Im not even going to lie, we were walking and tracking and i had many times where I was like "wtf are we doing, theres no way this dog is still tracking anything"..... but he sure was.
I tried Tod's method initially but did not work well given the amount of flair and deadrise in the hull. The clamps needed to twist slightly to follow the hull and I didn't want to risk splitting my very hard to find clear fir. I did use one screw on each end that screwed into the breasthook. Plus I didn't feel like removing screws and filling all those holes since there is no cloth on the inside to cover them. Without a helping hand however Tod's method may be your only option. Looks great so far! RM
I dont think there is as much curve and twist in the SG as your pole boat. My gameplan is to dry fit with clamp and screw, then leave it for a few days as I work on other things to let it take a bit of set. As always, that gameplay is subject to change once the work starts.
I have a big collection of old brass and bronze screws (dad was/is a hoarder of such things) that I'll use for any screws for permanent use like this - so even cheaper!
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Fortunately, the epoxy usually cures before crevice corrosion sets in.
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