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Originally Posted by B-Stealth
Wow, I didn't realize y'all were hitting it that hard. If you don't mind me asking what do you think the boats value will be upon completion?
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After thinking about it a little more, I just wouldn't want this boat competing against my charter boats out there, so i don't think I would sell it at all. Weight to power ratio plays a HUGE factor in the amount of bites you get here fishing for billfish, so it's going to be a cheap to run fish catching machine, and I don't want my competitors to get their hands on it. Not even for 100K
It plays such a big role, that I'm not even going to use my 32 footer for the first half of the season because it's high weight makes it suck at catching billfish (my 32 footer is the boat in my avatar). It was done with plywood and polyester resin, and the last season as the floor got heavier from water intrusion, it's catch rate went way down. We are about to rip it apart and cut it's weight down by 4000-5000 pounds so it can get competitive again. On the other hand, my 30 foot gamefisherman we redid with corecell foam and carbon fiber, and then last season it averaged 3 more billfish releases PER DAY from the weight reduction (my lightweight 30 footer averaged 12.4 sailfish released per day as opposed to 4.6 sailfish per day on the heavy fiberglass boat). This new 28 footer we are building here is going to clean house I bet, so i got to keep it for myself
My 32 footer is the next build we are going to post up here. We are stripping the 32 all the way down to the hull, even taking out the bulkheads, and then it is double layered on all the sides (it's cheaper to build them using a mold for each side, but it's heavier) so that second layer is GONE. It's going to be amazing all the weight that is going to come out, and we are going to do everything with this lightweight foam core. I bet i double the catch per day numbers from last year. Stay tuned
Here is a prelim plan of what we are thinking for the 32 footer. I'm going to take out the center console and make a cabin up front. That should shift a little more weight to the back as the cabin is just going to be a foam cored top with just a bathroom inside, but mostly weightless. Now the front has all these hatches made out of plywood and weighs a ton. Here's my Engineer's drawing (me using paint):
