Hollywood1
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Just got back from a weekend at a Local Southern California Lake and renting a 14ft. aluminum boat with a 6HP outboard to do some fishing. Unfortunately, I got skunked with no fish. But it turned me on to looking into getting my own aluminum boat so I wouldn't feel pressured to have to get the rented boat back in time.
Then I came across the Jet ski powered Skiffs and Jon boats. Wow! Im hooked on wanting to build one of my own now. It would be nice to get to more parts of the lake in a faster period of time let alone have some fun while doing it.
My question is, what size jet skis or sea doo are good candidates? Im a Metal fabricator but would like to do the least amount of Aluminum welding as possible. So looking at something to where I could cut out the hull of the jet ski and swap it into the aluminum boat, then seal it up from there. I know its not as easy a swap as I just made it sound and it will take some good engineering along the way.
Eventually I'll platform it and make it a good and little Bass worthy boat for the local Southern California lakes and maybe even Long Beach Harbor.
My Uncle has a 14' aluminum Skiff that has a Vhaul in front then tapers to flat in the rear. My buddies dad has a GTX Seadoo that has been seating for about 3 years, which I might be able to work out a trade for some residential Iron work, which is what most of my business is.
I have also found some 650 stand up jet skis on CL for under $1000. Im not sure if its easier to just pop in a 650 smaller jetski engine or to tackle hacking up a perfectly fine bigger GTX sea doo? I haven't been able to find any wrecked Sea doos yet, the summer is still pretty early.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
This is the video that got me started on the PWC powered boat research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnJI0cKLh5E
Then I came across the Jet ski powered Skiffs and Jon boats. Wow! Im hooked on wanting to build one of my own now. It would be nice to get to more parts of the lake in a faster period of time let alone have some fun while doing it.
My question is, what size jet skis or sea doo are good candidates? Im a Metal fabricator but would like to do the least amount of Aluminum welding as possible. So looking at something to where I could cut out the hull of the jet ski and swap it into the aluminum boat, then seal it up from there. I know its not as easy a swap as I just made it sound and it will take some good engineering along the way.
Eventually I'll platform it and make it a good and little Bass worthy boat for the local Southern California lakes and maybe even Long Beach Harbor.
My Uncle has a 14' aluminum Skiff that has a Vhaul in front then tapers to flat in the rear. My buddies dad has a GTX Seadoo that has been seating for about 3 years, which I might be able to work out a trade for some residential Iron work, which is what most of my business is.
I have also found some 650 stand up jet skis on CL for under $1000. Im not sure if its easier to just pop in a 650 smaller jetski engine or to tackle hacking up a perfectly fine bigger GTX sea doo? I haven't been able to find any wrecked Sea doos yet, the summer is still pretty early.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
This is the video that got me started on the PWC powered boat research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnJI0cKLh5E