Ray
Well-known member
Jared,
It is easy to make a small boat stable for hunting a dog out of it - poles driven down into the lake bottom through pipe clamps, pipes through the deck and hull, or handles. However, making one of these boats stable while underway and the dog decides to jump out of the boat to chase something is a hole other kettle of fish. Any sort of tippy boat should have pontoons on it if there is a dog in it w/o rock solid SIT/STAY.
My first suggestion is to start working out so that you can lift more than 80 pounds over your head when the wind is blowing. Your roof should be able to handle 200 pounds on the rack. Loading a boat up on there even with a mild 5 mph wind takes a lot of upper body strength. If you can't line the truck and boat up into the wind to load it you will become the axle for a windmill. This is from years of personal experience loading canoes onto trucks in off weather when alone or with kids too small to help.
If you want to build a boat in a kayak style there are a couple of options: sit on top or open cruiser.
This is a sit-on-top plywood kayak that might have enough stablity to survive a dog jumping off.
http://www.jemwatercraft.com/proddetail.php?prod=WF15-32
This is another one of their sit-on-tops that is smaller and might weigh less once you are done.
http://www.jemwatercraft.com/StudyPlans/SabaloStudyPlans.htm
The CLC Mill Creek 13 is a sit inside rec kayak that has been around for decades. Light, easy to build, stable. Also comes in longer tandom versions.
http://www.clcboats.com/shop/boats/kayaks/rec_kayaks/CLC-MILLCREEK-13.html
I think the Mill Creek would still need the poles to stablize it for the dog jumping out.
The KARA Hummer has a lot of potential to be a very light weight boat: 80 pounds is not out of the question. You would have to have read many kayak building books to get the knowledge of how to lighten the boat as you review the KARA plans and start changing them. The Hummer is built with construction 2x lumber and 1/4 plywood. A bomb proof construction method that comes out between 120 and 150 pounds. Changing to thinner materials will get it to under 100 pounds. Modifying the dimensions and how the pieces fit together might gain another 10 to 20 pounds off, but the bomb proofness of the original boat is gone.
It is easy to make a small boat stable for hunting a dog out of it - poles driven down into the lake bottom through pipe clamps, pipes through the deck and hull, or handles. However, making one of these boats stable while underway and the dog decides to jump out of the boat to chase something is a hole other kettle of fish. Any sort of tippy boat should have pontoons on it if there is a dog in it w/o rock solid SIT/STAY.
My first suggestion is to start working out so that you can lift more than 80 pounds over your head when the wind is blowing. Your roof should be able to handle 200 pounds on the rack. Loading a boat up on there even with a mild 5 mph wind takes a lot of upper body strength. If you can't line the truck and boat up into the wind to load it you will become the axle for a windmill. This is from years of personal experience loading canoes onto trucks in off weather when alone or with kids too small to help.
If you want to build a boat in a kayak style there are a couple of options: sit on top or open cruiser.
This is a sit-on-top plywood kayak that might have enough stablity to survive a dog jumping off.
http://www.jemwatercraft.com/proddetail.php?prod=WF15-32
This is another one of their sit-on-tops that is smaller and might weigh less once you are done.
http://www.jemwatercraft.com/StudyPlans/SabaloStudyPlans.htm
The CLC Mill Creek 13 is a sit inside rec kayak that has been around for decades. Light, easy to build, stable. Also comes in longer tandom versions.
http://www.clcboats.com/shop/boats/kayaks/rec_kayaks/CLC-MILLCREEK-13.html
I think the Mill Creek would still need the poles to stablize it for the dog jumping out.
The KARA Hummer has a lot of potential to be a very light weight boat: 80 pounds is not out of the question. You would have to have read many kayak building books to get the knowledge of how to lighten the boat as you review the KARA plans and start changing them. The Hummer is built with construction 2x lumber and 1/4 plywood. A bomb proof construction method that comes out between 120 and 150 pounds. Changing to thinner materials will get it to under 100 pounds. Modifying the dimensions and how the pieces fit together might gain another 10 to 20 pounds off, but the bomb proofness of the original boat is gone.
