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Your post just above the video appears to be quoting me!! INstead of being
your own post in reply to mine? Please correct the formatting? AS I didn't say any of the remarks you post under my
"kmorin; wrote" header!!
I think you're misreading my intent and remarks? We agree foaming is a pain, but you did the best you could and got it out of the bilge- nice work!
The slop tray well, like you say, is an owner choice and its needed here most often, but not there- as I understand? I was asking what the boat was going to do- no disrespect for your clients' choices- lots of uses are different in different waters- and we fish, duck hunt, moose, deer, haul supplies of all kinds including building materials, bear hunt and every other use for a skiff; all in the commercial nets skiffs in this neighborhood. Probably because they're so expensive and bullet proof they're worth the double (triple) use- I do understand the owner is the 'designer' so to speak.
As to designs, I've said over and over- its a pretty boat and not homely and simply asked about various features, adding a spray rail to the topside isn't a 'redesign' or condemnation of anyone's lines! It's simply a remark about the results, like boat #1 having a 1/2 pipe at the gunwales and #2 not showing that external extrusion? Its not a change in
design or finding flaws in the overall skiff; its just a little bit of extrusion to help stiffen the topsides hull panels, deflect spray and to some (not to everyone's eye) a style point.
Above is 25' Offshore skiff has a 4"x2" x 1/4" 6061 angle that has had the short leg trimmed to a variable 1" to 1-1/2" and the outer square extruded edge rounded using a router and a 1/2" radius round-over bit then polished a bit w ScotchBrite (tm) pads and stitched to the topsides. It works to do various positive 'things' to the hull's performance in a head sea. Suggesting you consider adding such a railing (some clients insist on 'clean' topsides?) is not finding fault with a skiff's design, it is simply observing the effects of various aspects of skiff hulls in certain conditions... no one (especially me) is suggesting you're not building seaworthy skiffs!
While I designed her for her owner, he decided "this and that" details, proportions and 'sizes' of the various elements this skiff. I would have done some things very differently- so I do very much recognize/agree/acknowledge/and believe you're constrained as the builder to what your customer wants to have you build. In asking you (the builder) about any given feature- I'm not attempting to assign you 'blame'/fault/flaws as a builder for decisions your clients/owners/buyers make and left you to build. Asking as a fellow plate boat builder, isn't finding fault, and a complete explanation can be a simple as "That's what the owner wanted".
Running in a mill pond, as the video, won't show if a skiff is
dry or not. If the swells by the bow aren't at least as tall as the sheer- at the very minimum 1/2 the topsides (?) there's not enough pitch to see how her topsides shed the swell on the windward side. (video link below)
The video was taken in flat calm water no breeze, no waves; jon boats are "dry" in flat calm water.
A video of the skiff in a head sea, 15-20 knots of day breeze and 2-3' seas? Then you'll know if she's dry or not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_nIx1qwosA here's a skiff in a head sea in a stiff breeze- w/reverse chine but no topsides rail- she's wet at the helm.
Sorry you think I was giving you a hard time over such a nice build!
Cheers,
Kevin Morin
Kenai, AK