Thread: Pontoon Dingy build.

our 13' fryan will plane with just my fat 115kg arse in it AS LONG AS I get to centre of boat(that's with 6hp merc).....it might be worthwhile fitting seat or having movable one that you can use on your own,a hunk of pvc pipe fits snuggly over outboard throttle which allows me to control boat from forward,this also works better for standing up to peer into water to check depth as you travel along.very tidy job...as to your pontoons turning into bomb if filled with polystyrene...you COULD use bean bag filler which would allow you to blow them out with compressed air if needed.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Should do all that except maybe the last bit, Pretty sure the 8 will plane me and a net....it should plane fairly slow being wide and flat but only one way to find out, Probably upgrade to a 15-20hp.

your 8 struggled to plane with you, me and a large bucket of shellfish if i recall and that was with the special prop you fit especially for me?

Originally Posted by mikee

your 8 struggled to plane with you, me and a large bucket of shellfish if i recall and that was with the special prop you fit especially for me?

Yea the 10footer just doesnt have the area on the water with which to support the weight and becomes a displacement hull.....goes almost scary fast with just me and nothing else tho.

Id like one of these but could be a while away yet.

Suzuki DF20AS (4stroke) $260 Cash Back | Trade Me

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Id like one of these but could be a while away yet.

Suzuki DF20AS (4stroke) $260 Cash Back | Trade Me

You could buy a shit load of oars and hire some slaves for that money VC.

Trimmed back pontoons and fought and swore and cursed to pull back fucked up pressing angles to cap them off...should of scrapped them and started again but I am trying not to dwell on it remember

It looks more dingy like now you can see its actual lenght.

It's looking bloody good VC.

Agreed

Not much freeboard??

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Not much freeboard??

No not really but it shouldnt need any to be fair....it will get a high side on top tho as mentioned earlier in the thread.

@veitnamcam. How's this boat going. It's been a week. Any wet tests with it yet, or still waiting on motor

Originally Posted by oraki

@veitnamcam. How's this boat going. It's been a week. Any wet tests with it yet, or still waiting on motor

I have taken it out of the workshop each morning before work and put it back in each night after knock off and thats it.. I have had to be home every night after work this week so no work done on it at all since Sunday when I did not much because my Dad and Uncle came in for a look and ended up chinwaggin.
Boys first Rugby game for the season tomorrow and the wife is working but I hope to get a couple hours into it tomorrow after the game.
Sunday short of a nucular attack I am going fishing because it has been too long since I had a fish on the end of a rod.

The invoices have been rolling in tho I will have a tally up and post costs so far.

Costs so far.
Alloy $431.60 +gst
Alloy $118.00 +
Press hull sheet $88.25+
total $733.53 incl gst

Pontoon pressings $ 230 inc gst
Timber $110 inc
Bungs x 3 $26.97 inc
Total $366.97

Dingy Total so far 366.97+733.53=

$1100.50

That is nearly finished cost....be another hundy or so for material for the high sides or that might just come out of some offcuts plus whatever the signwriter charges for the name if the useless prick ever gets around to coming and doing it. And maybe another hundy for extrusion and rubbing strip around the pontoon/high side join

There is no cost for my time of course of which I am at around 65-70hours into it now(probably knock 10-15 hours off if pressings where done correctly) or welding cost but if you were paying for consumables yourself it would be less than 200bucks

Trailer bits so far

$877.08 and it would be worse than that if @Mathias had not got me a good deal on a few things thanks mate

Thats just parts no material to actually build it with yet so the trailer will likely cost more than the dingy.

Made up the keelson and shaped it into the hull and got the bow bit of the floor a bit closer to fitting.


Hopefully get a chance some evenings after work next week to finish the floor then sea trials

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Looking good VC, Starting to take shape nicely.
I hope you have built in good fish catching abilities