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Why not? Planing hulls have no real HP max, so as long as you can keep it floating, you can keep gaining speed. So a zip overpowered by about 150hp, just might end up interesting. Keep the chines from walking and it would be a wild ride.. I think a Tiny Mite might make a better boat for that engine ...

I found the leak. The transom crack/ tear is very bad and went much farther than I thought, and there were 2 more smaller cracks due to age and the skin was paper thin in that section. I think it's safe to rebuild it as a deck drain and seal the bilge.. Plan is now, to put some CSM on the transom sk...

How about a Mercruiser 3.7L with an aftermarket aluminum 460 Ford cylinder head. That will be lighter than the all iron 140hp as it would be all aluminum, and could go 200hp pretty easy. That would be an awful lot of power for 14' tho

The hull itself is as solid as it was 40 years ago besides a torn transom skin that is related to the rotten transom which I can fix easy. They skimped on resin up in the bow, as it's resin starved so this boat was never right since it was built. However, All of that will be pretty easy to get it 'r...

The 3.0L 140's from Mercruiser have a 1.98:1 ratio, so a 2:1 ratio should be perfect even considering inboard vs I/O.. If you go for a truck engine, a 4.3L could work on it, but it will need a larger prop.. That said, a 3.0L Mercruiser could be had for free if your a smart shopper.. Buy a $500 rotte...

Currently taking a break with my Glen-L Drift pram, getting my grandfathers old Custom Craft ship shape again and getting very little help on other sites with this boat so I figure some here may have a better idea... Their building practices were odd and far from conventional, the boat was designed ...

Yep.. I cut a 4" test hole in the deck of my Custom Craft to see what was below deck as I knew Custom Crafts used some non conventional fiberglass boat construction methods. I was really supprised when I found daylight.. I've arleady closed the hole up from the inside, but that was an eye opener.. T...

I have some of that stuff on the shelf. Probably 5 year old tube because it's worthless for almost everything.. It may work for what you want, but as a structural glue joint I would not recommend it. It IS a true epoxy mix, I just don't know if it will flow and press like thickened epoxy

saved as svg doing it that way. If I left click on the image, it brings the image up in a png format/ clicking file and save, saves it as a png also. I use Firefox

It downloaded for me.. Right click/ save target as worked for me. Thanks

Yes, looks like a Wolverine to me too. Bow light looks like it's not original and the windshield obviously is an addition. My initial thought was the windshield to a Thompson but their side windows were curved. Many companies had windshields like that, altho it does look a bit later than the boat......

If your reading the boat building guidelines from the USCG, those are for manufactured boats. As long as you are building for yourself and not acting as a manufacture building more than 1 boat and selling, you are just a hobbiest and a coast guard or state inspection to get your Reg numbers and a HI...

It'd be funny if he actually went thru with building the boat and it remained to have no rudder in the finished design. It wouldn't matter as the prop might splash the water at best. He would need to put lead weight in the boat to get the prop in the water, and then it will float above it's water li...

I'm not going to watch it again to be sure, but it just dawned on me that there is no rudder..

Yea, in OPTIMAL conditions you could run across the waves like that if they are close enough together, but if they are not, it's a good way to stuff the bow.. If the water gets big, generally you slow down. If your dad's thinking 30' as a crutch to run faster, that's dangerous... I still don't think...