Thread: Kitset Boats

VC, I had this fellow, Kim bertleson (who is actually an aircraft designer) build me a 14ft semi commercial dory about 4 years ago. The hull has a 10 year warranty and his pricing and service was remarkable. I am delighted with my boat. Although he appears not to be building the monohull model I have any more, I just checked his website and found these. When he designed my boat I requested a shallow vee hull that could plane at low speed, yet have good load carrying capacity and be safe and stable for similar uses to what you describe. My boat is powered by an economical 30hp Tohatsu outboard and my wife and I plus dogs and gear have made more than one day trip from Mt Manganui to Motiti island, fished and trolled all day and returned on a slow (10 knot plane using less than 4 gallons of fuel for the day.




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