14'-6" Jon Boat project questions.

[Cheeseball]

holy crap....I live in Mechanicsburg PA....

Ah... then you probably have fished the Susquehana before? I've fished up around where you are as well. It can be a pretty tricky river to navigate in places.

 

[keppdog2]

just a question...for areas that you would like to fill with foam but cant gets sheets of it installed...would that "great stuff" foam in a can work for flotation foam???

 

[russ010]

just a question...for areas that you would like to fill with foam but cant gets sheets of it installed...would that "great stuff" foam in a can work for flotation foam???

it might, but man that stuff is a mess. If you put it in then decide to do different mods later, you're pretty much screwed. Just don't worry about those places. As long as you have foam in there you're ok.

Are you going to put a motor on it? I don't remember and I haven't looked through your thread in a while

 

[keppdog2]

yeah I have a 10 horse motor for it...and a 40lb trolling motor....

 

[russ010]

I think you'll be just fine man seriously... I would really steer clear of great stuff though...

It would take a lot of cans and that stuff is not the cheapest in the world.

They do make an expanding foam that you pour in... I just saw it in another post on this site. I think it might have been https://www.jgreer.com - but that could be wrong, I'm going from memory.

 

[Zum]

Have you read this post.
https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=8679
Theres some information on 4X8 foam sheets.
I have know idea on weather the information is correct but it seems sound.
I've also read somewhere that the expanding foam may not be compatable with aluminum usless there is a barrier(like in a plastic bag)I'll see if I can find that info again later.