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any of you guys fish raging rivers with your flatbottom or the ohio river? i have a 16 foot flat bottom and would really like to know if you guys have any experience out on the river with a similar boat, just wanting to see how you're boats handle out there

so after thinking about it constantly, wondering if i put enough support up front, i went home for lunch today and walked on it, jumped on it, and wobbled back and forth. i have put my mind to ease. it's plenty stable enough. plus, i'm a big guy (about 250 pounds...OF PURE MUSCLE! :? ...alright...

well added some extra support to my framework that goes under the front deck, i used 5/8 thick plywood and there was a little too much flex for my liking, got it pretty solid but there is still very slight flex in some parts, any of you have any flex in your front decks? i'd add alot more but...

i'm going to put carpeted plywood on the front, top and back of the back bench seat, not sure yet if i'm gunna put a lid on it though. it would probably be a good idea but money is tight now! lol

getting close fellas! got the front deck cut out, and carpeted, as well as the opening for my storage space. also got the floor cut out and carpeted. it's starting to come around! i have a few more pieces to carpet, and i want to put a few more boards in my framework then it's just screw it...

well here's the updated picture of paint, i didn't paint the whole inside because for one, i don't need to, and for two..i ran out of paint :)

yeah, its pretty wide, 48 at the bottom and like 64 at the top beam. which is funny because i passed up a boat because i was concerned that it was too narrow, looks like i found one to suite me well :) well, we painted today, used the walmart special krylon camo spray paint (olive-extra...

started priming yesterday, will finish priming and painting today. don't be too jealous of our "ghetto fabulous" paintjob :) good ol' computer paper :)

i figured maybe it would be better to use a jig saw because there is a slight constant bend in the cut to follow the contour of the boat

one quick question guys, what kind of saw did you guys use to cut out your decks? a jig saw or a circular? i would assume jig

funny that you post this because i'm literally going to paint my boat today with the krylon camo paint (olive) i'll let you know how it turns out!

do we have another user of solidworks on the forum?

yeah i figured i'd make a fun little game with the storage, called "find what your looking for" the concept of the game is choose from one of three doors and hope that what your looking for is in the general area of your chosen door :)

the board, is about as thick as i could go, as you can see i had to sand two notches in there just to be able to mount my motor to the back! it's really just there for the extra extra support but let me tell you...that thing is SOLID. as far as the handles go, right now i'm only using them to...

thanks for the replies guys. today i finished the front deck support, got everything screwed together, and removed it to start sanding for paint. this boat will be unrecognizable by the end of this weekend :) thanks jim, thats my parents dog, i got a wussy little basset hound...although...i...

started work on my 16 foot flat bottom. started out with the back transom, unfortunetly the way it was made, the back braces were welded to the transom, there was literally no way to get one solid peice of board, all the way across behind it, ended up using two pieces of 2X6 and two 2x4's with a...

so i pulled the boat off the trailer today and pressure washed it. the boat cleaned up really well. also bought a 1970 evinrude 9.5 pancake motor that was freshly rebuilt for 400 bucks. that thing runs great! so i'm FINALLY ready to start planning for decking. so my questions for now are: 1...

well in that case, i don't really care much if it stays black, maybe i'll try what you suggested or maybe i'll just leave it black :)

well the boat looks like it has a somewhat newer coating under the waterline (thick black stuff, looks like it works as an extra sealer) i will NOT remove that, if anything i'll just paint over it, would i be ok painting over it?

doesn't matter now, just gotta take it to get inspected and they will issue me a HIN number. i figure while i'm waiting i can start measuring and cutting out wood to deck the boat and lay down floors :)