My first duck boat

[FlintRiverFowler]

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Took that damn seat out. Probly gona put it back in it proper spot, whoever had the boat before moved it back a whole foot. Pretty fuckin stupid if you ask me.

[Flightstopper]

I'd run one solid brace in the middle instead of the seat. Then lay down a .100" aluminum floor and you'd be golden.

[assateague]

Why do you even want the seat? Is it a structural issue?

[Flightstopper]

Why do you even want the seat? Is it a structural issue?

In most boats yes, especially riveted.

[triplecurl]

I'd run one solid brace in the middle instead of the seat. Then lay down a .100" aluminum floor and you'd be golden.

^this. Floor space is number one IMO.

[FlintRiverFowler]

Why do you even want the seat? Is it a structural issue?

When I took that seat out, although misplaced I could tell the boat got a little more flimsy.
Also planning on hollowing out that front seat and putting a hatch in the top so I can put the battery in there.

[Tomkat]

I'd run one solid brace in the middle instead of the seat. Then lay down a .100" aluminum floor and you'd be golden.

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[Flightstopper]

Don't forget the hard sided blind Flint!

[FlintRiverFowler]

I'm gona do a removable pop up.

[Flightstopper]

Jokes, all joke

[rebelp74]

Jokes, all joke

Crawfishin huh

[jehler]

Calling that a gusset is a stretch

[Flightstopper]

Jokes, all joke

Crawfishin huh

Yup

[FlintRiverFowler]

Calling that a gusset is a stretch

You hatin on my ship nigga?
I'm trying to trade my yard shed for a pontoon so I can make a down south version of the barge.

[NuffDaddy]

Why do you even want the seat? Is it a structural issue?

When I took that seat out, although misplaced I could tell the boat got a little more flimsy.
Also planning on hollowing out that front seat and putting a hatch in the top so I can put the battery in there.

If you want the seat removed, you can probably put a "triangle" in connecting the hullside to the bottom frames of the boat. It would strengthen it like havering the bench there without taking up much space.

[jehler]

Calling that a gusset is a stretch

You hatin on my ship nigga?
I'm trying to trade my yard shed for a pontoon so I can make a down south version of the barge.

no, I like the boat, just trying to get in on this naval construction semantics debate

[FlintRiverFowler]

Why do you even want the seat? Is it a structural issue?

When I took that seat out, although misplaced I could tell the boat got a little more flimsy.
Also planning on hollowing out that front seat and putting a hatch in the top so I can put the battery in there.

If you want the seat removed, you can probably put a "triangle" in connecting the hullside to the bottom frames of the boat. It would strengthen it like havering the bench there without taking up much space.

I've seen where guys have fabricated a triangle brace. Hard to describe but it bolts to the side of the boat brace on the bottom and then on the top part. Kinda warps around it and makes an angle between them

[NuffDaddy]

Why do you even want the seat? Is it a structural issue?

When I took that seat out, although misplaced I could tell the boat got a little more flimsy.
Also planning on hollowing out that front seat and putting a hatch in the top so I can put the battery in there.

If you want the seat removed, you can probably put a "triangle" in connecting the hullside to the bottom frames of the boat. It would strengthen it like havering the bench there without taking up much space.

I've seen where guys have fabricated a triangle brace. Hard to describe but it bolts to the side of the boat brace on the bottom and then on the top part. Kinda warps around it and makes an angle between them

Yeah that's what I'm talking about. Don't know the "proper" name for it.

[jehler]

Why do you even want the seat? Is it a structural issue?

When I took that seat out, although misplaced I could tell the boat got a little more flimsy.
Also planning on hollowing out that front seat and putting a hatch in the top so I can put the battery in there.

If you want the seat removed, you can probably put a "triangle" in connecting the hullside to the bottom frames of the boat. It would strengthen it like havering the bench there without taking up much space.

I've seen where guys have fabricated a triangle brace. Hard to describe but it bolts to the side of the boat brace on the bottom and then on the top part. Kinda warps around it and makes an angle between them

that would be a gusset

[NuffDaddy]

Why do you even want the seat? Is it a structural issue?

When I took that seat out, although misplaced I could tell the boat got a little more flimsy.
Also planning on hollowing out that front seat and putting a hatch in the top so I can put the battery in there.

If you want the seat removed, you can probably put a "triangle" in connecting the hullside to the bottom frames of the boat. It would strengthen it like havering the bench there without taking up much space.

I've seen where guys have fabricated a triangle brace. Hard to describe but it bolts to the side of the boat brace on the bottom and then on the top part. Kinda warps around it and makes an angle between them

that would be a gusset

We call em knees.

[assateague]

I've always thought "gusset" sounded like some sort of clothing from the 1800s.

[FlintRiverFowler]

I may jut buy some angle aluminum and make these gussets

[jehler]

I may jut buy some angle aluminum and make these gussets

nope, gussets are flat stock

[jehler]

I've always thought "gusset" sounded like some sort of clothing from the 1800s.

love to throw around the word gussets on jobsites with new guys, that mullions and purlins always confuses them

[FlintRiverFowler]

I can't describe it right now, feelin kinda retard bc I had to take some muscle relaxer for my awful shoulder, that I'm pretty sure i tore something in while desperately yanking the pull start on my boat engine at the boat ramp 30 mins til LST.

[NuffDaddy]

I may jut buy some angle aluminum and make these gussets

nope, gussets are flat stock

The angle would do the same thing though.

[jehler]

Nope

[FlintRiverFowler]

Nope

Yes it would, if I notched it out and bolted it to the side of the brace.

[FlintRiverFowler]

I don't have a brake to bend the gussets

[assateague]

I've always thought "gusset" sounded like some sort of clothing from the 1800s.

love to throw around the word gussets on jobsites with new guys, that mullions and purlins always confuses them

I had a gusset slice my knee open like a scalpel once. We were swinging trusses on a big ass side by side duplex, and I was middle man. The crane guy was in a hurry, apparently, and had that bitch sky high to clear the ones we stood already, and was swinging fast into the wind. Right as it cleared the last truss we set, the one I was standing on, it sandwiched, and came off the hook , with the tails screaming down. I tried to make my whole body 1 1/2" wide, and hide under a chord of the truss. Not like there was anywhere else I could go. That sonofabitch went whistling by so close that I thought I had bought it. But the only thing that happened was a gusset sliced my right knee open, not even very deep, on it's way down. Smashed through the first floor deck, and the tails ended up about 5 feet into the basement. I wanted to go cuss the crane guy up one side and down the other, but I was shaking too bad to even get off the truss I was standing on, much less go fight somebody. Probably would have peed on myself a little, had my pecker not been running for my stomach when that fucker broke apart right over my head.