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Yeah buddy!!! Nice boat, congrats!

Awesome boat- love those big cats! Going to be an EPIC build. Atomic 13 is a great name. Congrats!

icondonj- Thanks for the compliments, glad you liked the boat! 2 reasons for that bow rail height- 1. we are short 2. It allows you to comfortably keep rod tips low to the water when chasing cutts inshore, which we will be doing more of from that area than anything else (I need solid gunnels for rol...

It's been a while. Kind of pre-occupied with a bunch of these lately. buck30.JPEG Peezer- How's Miss Hayden? You get any GPS readings??? I think you might have us beat Welder- the console is 42" wide and has more than enough room to fit two people side by side with generous weather protection. ...

It floats :clap: :clap: :clap: Handles beautifully and sits ever so level. AlloyToy- The forward hatch will be water tight enough to keep the cuddy area dry and we will be diligent about keeping wet ropes outta there! Just in case, there are drainage areas to direct water down into the hull and into...

Today Grant sent me a few pictures of some of the cool features recently installed on the boat. Thought I might share but please be forewarned, there are some non-alloy materials included...

That looks like a blast Sculpin! Thanks for sharing such a well documented report- love the pics.

Mojo- you are blowing my mind with those articles. I have some serious reading to do, thanks a bunch

great thread

I stopped by Wooldridge today just before they were closing up shop for the weekend and noticed Don has finished rigging the whole console and has moved back to the motors, downriggers, and pot puller. It was really something to see the NMEA 2k system come together "physically" and I can't...

Peezer, Etec 200 HO for the stir stick (220-ish horsepower). Attn: Welder & Mojo: My shirt size is Large :popcorn: Mike, The boat sleeps one person inside the cuddy/potti area just forward of the console. The need to sleep one is kinda rare but there was so much continuous space separated by onl...

Thanks Peezer, getting stoked! Out here it's mostly Scotty or Cannon and it's really a ford vs chevy kinda thing. Boca Grande tarpon downrigging sounds crazy! Give'r man! I wonder if the downrigger line would count as 1 of your 3 allowed per boat in the pass? Doesn't sound like folks follow the rule...

I hear ya on the round tank Peezer. I think this will work out and it sounds like Wooldridge has many happy customers using this shape. there's always enough room back there for a an additional tank if I find the need for one. Congrats on the boat, man she looks gorgeous! I drive by that launch on m...

Cats are where it's at! Loving that open house with the extended roof- beautiful boat!

LOLOL horrible choice of words on my part, guess I have a habit of sending mixed messages here :rotfl: I was referring to the kiddy pole challenge welder or mojo suggested earlier. I saw those davits and they sound legit but the fish I'm after are much smaller and don't require that much help, plus ...

Thanks Peezer, like yours too :thumbsup: Scotty is a brand of downrigger used in the PNW for Salmon fishing and TR-1 Gold is an autopilot developed for low hp kicker motors and commonly used around here for trolling specific patterns or holding positions in wind, waves, and current while fishing sal...

Few more pics... Cool story about that dash- Grant helped me customize that thing to-the-T by mocking up steering wheels, MFD, binnacle, to get both angles just right. The height of the bottom of the glass is only 48" (dash @ 46") because the console is so far forward we wanted to increase...

Welder and Mojo- I want an Aluminum Alloy Boats t-shirt! But as mojo said, my season is dwindling. I might be able to scratch some late silvers if we're lucky but most likely looking at sea run cutthroat and chum (if I'm really lucky). Paddler- You will get a quicker answer from Grant if you give hi...

paint just finished an hour ago- getting closer...

No problem Mojo, my pleasure! We have been calling her Yolo for fun right now (inside joke) but not sure how serious we are about that. From the looks of it, Peezer would outfish us in the big blue but we might put a few more salmon in the box with our 3 scotty's and TR-1 Gold, so to make it fair I ...

Thanks wetwhopper! Here's a few more showing some of the window cut outs (still waiting on a couple portlights), roof structure, transom door, and some minor tweaks to the dash- my bad Grant :mrgreen: In the last picture you can kind of see the extended tray/footsteps to the bow deck. I can't stop s...

Roof and arch up. That's Mark the hardcore fisherman, I mean welder.

Lol, I should have clarified that Whale is the manufacturer. Thanks for sparing us the mental drawing :rotfl: We have a pretty long list of electronics and accessories that is always changing so I will try to note when things appear in the build pictures as much as possible. :thumbsup: Just got back...

Thanks for all the kind words! mojomizer- Grant suggested going with the gravity fed diaphragm pumps not only because the room created with the raised deck allows for them to be mounted below the bottom of the fish boxes (see first pic) but also because they are superior to macerators in this applic...

Yes the bottom is extended to provide more flotation for the 625 pounds of power with the self bailing design and it will give a nice ride. Wooldridge has yet to make a 20' Super Sport Offshore Pilot and Glen please correct me if I'm wrong but the 20' Sport Offshore Pilots don't have self bailing de...

couple from yesterday

Mac- 5052 & 5086 Grade A marine for the skin and 6061T6 inside with lots of structure Goat- Thanks we are looking forward to the finished product. I've seen pics of Tin Lizzy- wicked boat! I chose a hardtop center console mostly for fishability with a little overhead protection because I'm in fo...