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I am interested in the bay or flats boat style restoration...If I cut the sides down fluch with the casting deck and then built a flats style cockpit with side and aft decks, that might be a pretty cool boat! It would remove most of the damaged glass, and the floor could be left as is (undamaged). Interesting...

Does anyone have thoughts on this or any pictures of a similar transformation? You could probably push this hull with a 70 hp, making it float pleanty high in the back, and it would float in 10-11" of water. It might be the best riding flats boat around!

Thanks for the thoughts and inspiration!
Peter

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Peter,
Quite a while ago (> 1 year) there was a 20 for sale in FL that was modified into a flats boat. It had cut down sides, poling platform, etc. and was listed on Boat Trader or Yacht World. If you search the For Sale archives on this site, there may still be a link to it.

Anyone else remember this boat?

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Scott,
I found that thred the other day
but the pics are gone [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
Anyone have any links to that boat?

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Peter, don't have the pics, but I saw it in person. The guy cut at the sheer about 8" below the current hull/deck joint all around the boat - perfectly level. This removed the deck/cap/liner pieces. Console came off, floor out, and he glassed some 1x1 around the new sheer line. Then, he put in athwartship bulkheads, with 2 main ones, one about 4' fwd of the transom, the other, 6' aft of the stem. Forward and aft of these he decked flat all the way across with 1/2 divinycell which was pre-skinned and resting/tabbed to other bulkheads and ring frames. He then built a floor from chine to chine in the middle of the boat supported by more bulkheads, this floor was above thte waterline about 3". He took some windsurfer masts and glassed them in as drain tubes from the new "cockpit", and added a small rectangular console fabricated out of the divinycell scraps. Looked very much like a HEwes 18 redfisher, but with a deep/v hull. His hatches were simply cutouts of the fore & aft decks, without gutters, only a trim ring underneath. By the way, say hello to Lars, this is Tom Lihan

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Hi Tom,
Thanks for the note! Lars just had a baby boy, Olin, and they are all doing great.

What you describe is very helpful, and is roughly how I would do it. I might just leave in the current floor, as it is fine and recently redone, making this the new sole. Maybe she will float again!

If anyone wants to see pictures, click the links, but it is not pretty, so be warned!

Destroyed 20
Destroyed 20a

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Wow, just looked over the pics and can't describe the feeling. BTW, where is the Butterball? I'd like to know where to stay away from since I often fish up close to rocks.

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Sorry to hear about your mishap - I too have nearly been wiped out from the "wave from hell". I have a '74 20' CC that needs new stern hatch covers - mine has the 1/2 height compartments on port and starboard sides of stern. Does yours and are they available?

Thanks,
Skip

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Roger,

Butterball is .5mi N of Brenton - by Castle Hill - That whole area has sweet looking water but dangerous...

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If you do the bay boat option, weight is your enemy so I would remove existing floor and go with the lightest option avaialbe to replace. You might also consider adding a pocket tunnel to the back (I think Keener offers this on thier v hull bay boats) the tunnel will allow you to run the motor higher up and provide more clearance for the prop. I think you could probably put a 3 foot pocket tunnel in the back and increase your draft substantially.

JW-Tex

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Whats a pocket tunnel??

I think this whole idea is pretty neat. I would cut it as low as I cut and pull the deck and just reglass a deck/cap.
Put a small console in the center with a leaning post,etc.

I grew up in S.Fla fishing the flats when I was a kid, my old 14'balsa wood v-hull would take about 3" of water(if that). There was not a bay I hadn't fished in the ten thousand islands by the time I was done.