Is anyone building this skiff yet?
@Chris Morejohn
To answer, no one has built one yet. The plans will be Available in a month. My partner Nathan who does all the CAD work for CNC machining from my drawings is on vacation now. He lives in Michigan so it’s go time to enjoy some sun.
We will be providing plans that will be extreamly accurate for plasma cutting or CNC routing out.
When making paper patterns with printers it gets a bit complicated as you have to watch the patterns as they are printed to make sure they don’t creep, so all the plans will have the measurements for hand laying out if building in core or plywood.
Using my build system in core or ply it will take around 40 hours to build a complete hull.
I will have hull sizes available up to 21’.
I have been around since Dave Exley built the Banana river skiff. He chopped the bottom off a Mitchel skiff to arrive at the Banana river flat bottom skiff. Next he added Vee to this and called it the Super Skiff. Scott Deal liked it and redesigned it to come out with the Maverick Marage. HBBWs came out with the Whipray and Scott then came out with the HPX. Hal then used the HPX as his guide to redo and came out with the Islamorada 18. Inbeteen Mavericks overhanging plastic spray rail Harry Spears version and Explorboatworks overhanging sheers came along Sabine skiffs sheer. The fun thing for me is I have measured all the above skiffs so I know how much displacement they are dealing with, I also know how tippy they are so I have worked to correct as best I can with my version of what essentially is a flat planked conical 1 chine skiff.
Sooooo what makes MY VERSION different is I am incorporating a variable deadrise bottom with the lower chine angle varying as it goes forward. This means I don’t want to drag along the deep vee of the Super Skiffs, Chittums 18 stern. I want the vee to be at its best spot for going into chop. I will add in my reverse spray strake to help stay a bit drier when in beam seas.
Next depending on what material you use the upper chine can be very simple and effective or a little bit more detailed. If building using my core system these hulls can be built in eglass and be as light or lighter as an all carbon Chittum skiff if wanted. Because you will be building a one off you will have lots of lower chine and lifting strake options to use if wanted.
Last thing because it’s all home building I can advise for any hull variations.
Lots of these panel hull designs to come out this winter.
Check out the 15’ skiff above. Can weigh 160 lbs in core and use an 8 hp. Lots going on soon as I finish my sail to BC.