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Kris Schaumburg

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Anyone have any experience with this hull? Was thinking about maybe beefing the transom, leaving the tunnel out and running a mudmotor.
 
building a boat is nice, but for a mud motor boat you're better off looking at an aluminum hull designed for a mud motor. For the money you'd spend in buying all that plywood and fiberglass, you could probably get a boat that would handle the motor
 
There is warmth in wood and the fiberglass slides a little better than aluminum. An all fiberglass boat made right can be very light and slide over grass and mud great. If you do go for a aluminum boat you might want to cover the bottom with a new product called "Speedliner". My friend did his aluminum sled out here and it works awesome on the mud and rocks. This product is about 80% tougher and harder than standard bedliner products which do not work. LineX-Rhino lining all seem to grab so research before you apply them. Just a thought.
 
Check out the gator boats forums since most bateau builders hang out there and post up their builds more than over here.

As for running mud motors on wood/glass boats in your area look on here for Ed Askew and his Perregrin boat. He runs it over oyster beds with little issue using a prodrive.

For a wood/glass boat there are two options for a slick bottom: graphite and steel flex.

A graphite and epoxy final coating and then finish sanding work makes the bottom very tough and very slick.

Steel flex is a coating used on air boats in the glades and it works on FG hulls as well.
 
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