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GaryBriggs » Today, 15:41[/url]"]A few pics of my Bowfishing Pontoon boat, Designed and fabricated by myself. Its a 1466 pontoon fabricated from 16ga galv decked with 1/8" alum diamond plate, powered by a 15hp johnson tiller (for the time being), with a 55lb troller. I run 7- 150w Hps lights powered by a Yamaha 2000w inverter generator. I also run 2- 29 series batteries with a powermax 55amp converter because its not unusual to Bowfish all night during the Carp Spawn.

First time on the water! before the lights


lights


Success!


I set out to build a Short, yet wide boat that would draft shallow and be very stable with 2 people shooting off the front elevated platform. It works fantastic for trolling the shallows. However the shape of the hull being short and wide, the weight of all the bowfishing gear, makes it hard to get up onto a plane. I am in the market for a 35-45 hp tiller or a 750+cc jet ski motor. 8-10mph is way to slow for the large lakes in my area!

I'm impressed.

 

[97Aero]

Picked this up a couple weeks ago. Damn the cold weather!

 

[spcamno]

Bought it off a buddy couple of weeks ago and the pic is when I preparing it for the winter.

Its a 16'8" Smokercraft Stiletto with a Johnson 115 on a Shorelander trailer.

 

[huntinfool]

Well, I never thought I would sell my rig, but I had a deal fall in my lap and I just can't refuse it.
Here is my baby.


I did everything myself and made it like I wanted it....or so I thought. I never really was happy with the tiller and wanted to convert it to a center console. So I started collecting everything I would need to do that. Just when I had just about everything I needed, BLAM.
This fell in my lap.


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So it looks like I have more work to do, and I'm in the process of finding a 90 mercury for it.

 

[huntinfool]

Well the pics are not in order.

 

[huntinfool]

Try as I might, I can not get them to get in the right order. Anyways the new boat is a 2012 Tracker. It has some issues, but I'll fix those quickly.

 

[reedjj]

Huntinfool, is it a 2072 or an 1860? Great looking boat either way. Anything between 70 and 115 should work nice!

 

[TricknTin]

Here's my newest rig I just gutted her for customization.

 

[huntinfool]

Huntinfool, is it a 2072 or an 1860? Great looking boat either way. Anything between 70 and 115 should work nice!

Its an 1860 although they have it on the title as 19'6". ( I think because of the sponsons) its only rated for a 90hp, so that's what I am looking for.

 

[Country Dave]

huntinfool » 16 minutes ago[/url]"]

Huntinfool, is it a 2072 or an 1860? Great looking boat either way. Anything between 70 and 115 should work nice!

Its an 1860 although they have it on the title as 19'6". ( I think because of the sponsons) its only rated for a 90hp, so that's what I am looking for.

I think you're right, them must have made them title it as a 19.6 because of the float pods. Great boat. Don't think you can beat a welded mod-V A 90HP should push it pretty good. I think you could go as much a 115. The float pods really help support the weight of a bigger motor.

Good luck with your build.

 

[florida strain]

14ft. Monarck, 25 Mercury.

 

[huntinfool]

huntinfool » 16 minutes ago[/url]"]

Huntinfool, is it a 2072 or an 1860? Great looking boat either way. Anything between 70 and 115 should work nice!

Its an 1860 although they have it on the title as 19'6". ( I think because of the sponsons) its only rated for a 90hp, so that's what I am looking for.

I think you're right, them must have made them title it as a 19.6 because of the float pods. Great boat. Don't think you can beat a welded mod-V A 90HP should push it pretty good. I think you could go as much a 115. The float pods really help support the weight of a bigger motor.

Good luck with your build.

Tag on the boat says it is rated for a 90hp max. I'd like to put a bigger one on it, but the coast guard is all over the bay and the Game Wardens are around every bend. I don't want to get a ticket.

 

[Hendo30]

Thought I would share.1980 Bass Tracker III. It has a 1983 twin cylinder electric start/choke 60 horse Evinrude..cheers

 

[Bronzbackhunter]

2007 G3 1548, 2013 Mercury 9.9 Bigfoot.

 

[Boat2fast]

These are boats I use, plan to use, work on, plan to work on...or have for sale. Some I won't ever use, work on, or sell because I'm too busy working on, using, or selling the other ones.

 

[namco]

Hi Laurie here I live in Sydney Australia (first post) and love my tinys my latest project is this little NAMCO 11.7" So far I have spent many hours rubbing back and polishing the alloy but my problem will be this boat will only ever see salt water and Im afraid all my hard work will go down the drain the first outing if it dose a 2 pak paint job will be needed


National Art Metal Co. Pty. Ltd.
Dutton Street, Bankstown, NSW.

Made 2 models.   
"Car top 12"     Length11'4", Beam 51",  Max HP 7.5
All riveted open dingy, Made between 1964-68.

The other model was the "Angler"
Length 11'7"  Beam 54",   max HP 7.5
Made between 1966-68.

Any other Australians here ??

This is the motor I will be fitting to the little girl believe it or not this motor has less than 3 hours use she will under go a full respray once the boat is finished

 

[badewolf]

Hello, new here. I've been around canoes and kayaks since i was a kid. Just now gettting into "big" boats. Love aluminum boats. Just picked up my first two aluminum jon boats.

In november I picked up this 1985 Landau Cherokee 10' V-hull and trailer off craigslist $400
Also picked up a bunch of motors for $750
1960 2 hp johnson
1967 Evinrude 6 hp fisherman
3 hp 90's sears gamefisher
5 hp early 80's merc
1964 5.5 Johnson Seahorse

December: Got the 6 hp evinrude running took it out twice and something blew up its leaking out brown sludge out the foot. X.x But I got my Landau out on the water for the first time. Much faster than a kayak.
https://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg235/badewolf/boats/photo.jpg
Reallly need new floors and casting deck, all the wood is rotten as you can see.
https://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg235/badewolf/boats/photo2.jpg
The stuff leaking from the motor:
https://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg235/badewolf/boats/photo6.jpg

My kayak collection and custom trailer, just incase anyone here does yak fishing.
https://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg235/badewolf/boats/photo5.jpg
https://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg235/badewolf/boats/photo4.jpg
https://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg235/badewolf/boats/photo3.jpg

Yesterday I picked up a 10' 2003 Lowe flat bottom jon for $360 off craigslist with a 5 hp mariner (pics soon)

Gonna make a few work/build threads, I like all the ideas I've seen here, I just browsed through all 90 pages on this thread lol

also i have no idea how to post pics X.x

 

[Kochy]

2000 Lowe 180WZ, with a 115HP Johnson. Pretty good for a kid still in high school?

 

[ram rod]

during the winter month's i added float pods with shallow water anchor and camo paint..

 

[Country Dave]

ram rod » Today, 11:59[/url]"]during the winter month's i added float pods with shallow water anchor and camo paint..

Looks great................. =D>