Nice alloy express down in Louisiana

[Chaps]

http://www.thehulltruth.com/boats-sale- ... iesel.html

[welder]

Good find Chaps.

[JETTYWOLF]

That don't need that to catch fish in La. (its like apples verus oranges when I watch fishing TV shows in Fla. verus La.its holarious)

That's a killer boat

[Fisherman]

Wow. How did they achieve the bow flare?

[welder]

Wow. How did they achieve the bow flare?

Probably a softer alloy and a BUNCH more welding...
The sides are NOT one piece, the Flair is a separate piece .

[Fisherman]

Wow. How did they achieve the bow flare?

Probably a softer alloy and a BUNCH more welding...
The sides are NOT one piece, the Flair is a separate piece .

Looks like a lot of extra work for not much gain?

[kmorin]

Flair (really flam) on this boat is just a plank/strake/panel that is hollow cut along its lower edge- then welded to the topsides @ the top edge - also, that plank is the 'whole' leap or Rybovich Step in the sheer line too.

Hold a piece of paper up to the screen and the (red) shadow line will line up with the after flat sheer/rub rail around the cockpit, showing the added plank with the hollow lower edge giving the outward lean/flam to the forward third of the hull. If it were actually curved like the other boat we saw where the flair was rolled in two directions it would be much more work and cost. This is only a couple hours work to add- not much cost compared to the overall paint job! Very pricey paint hides the hard line transition and it is not much work in terms of the entire hull. Also it dries out the bow in a head sea quite a bit.

cheers,
Kevin Morin

[welder]

here is how they did it....
And YES that is the boat that's listed here.

[Chtucker]

Why oh why did they feel the need for foam????

[kmorin]

Black Beard, no its not a big deal, but you'd have to get the hours in the skiff figured close enough so you can say the additional work is "X" hours. That may be a 'big deal' if it were a small simply framed skiff? It sure isn't lots of metal or manhours, but some cost increases get labeled differently by different folks?

Work wise, this boat was framed as welder's pic shows, [and it was framed inverted by someone with so little experience they didn't etch or clean the material before putting on the plate] so they had a set of transverse frames to use to hold the added plank when it was fit - or the boat was lofted/developed on a PC marine design software application?

There is only one added seam, really, that is the lower plank and top of original topsides seam since whatever the builder does at the sheer is still the same.

I've done a similar plank in one hull and it was very effective in a head sea drying out the spray more than any boat its size I've built and run.

Cheers,
Kevin Morin