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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TexasJim" data-source="post: 491710" data-attributes="member: 24649"><p>Kismet: It was simple logic. I put 1" x 2-1/2" beams across the two remaining seats, thru slots in the hull. Then I used a long straightedge and scribed a line at that level around the inside of the hull. Then I drilled some holes thru the hull on that line and used my mini-grinder with a cut-off wheel outside the hull to connect the dots. I sold 40 pounds of aluminum I cut off! I put a few more deck supports in and built the 5-foot wide deck. I copied the deck layout, roughly, from an Ankona Shadowcast 16, which I wished I could afford. The rear hatches hold a 6-gal gas tank, buckets, bailers, etc. The forward hatch has an anchor stowage, battery, life jackets and misc. No poling tower for me. At my advanced age(77), my balance isn't good enough for that. The boat weighs about 350 pounds, draws about 8 inches with the motor up. I can go anywhere my fishing kayak will go. It will go 24 mph with the Yammer. If I were doing this again, I would build in a mini-tunnel in the stern. My neighbors were sure I'd lost my mind when I began cutting off the gunwales!  It's been a great flats skiff.  TexasJim</p></blockquote><p></p>