That is basically what we ended up doing. We started out with an old clunker for a test and after we saw that it would work we went with new boats. It is kinda hard to cut a 14" x 30" hole in the bottom of a new boat. Mine and my dad's boat are 15 footers with 650 Kawasakis, a friend of ours has...
My family and I have built 4 over the past 4 years. They are fun boats to run and they can cut around almost as good as a jetski. I was curious to see how many are out there.