Author Topic: Hello from Mississippi (Read 342 times)

BayouDude · « **on:** February 20, 2023, 09:51:08 AM »

Hello everyone. Native of south LA but current resident of coastal MS and looking to build a boat that can fish the rivers and marshes along with get deep on occasion. I stumbled across the tolman design after going down the skiff rabbit hole online and seems like a good choice for my applications. I have a background in Naval Architecture and can design my own but maybe i will go that route after getting a proven build out of the way first. Ideally i want to build out of aluminum but that is proving to be a challenge and I may just have to start the build and customize along the way vs have everything designed, engineered and nested before beginning.

KenB · « **Reply #1 on:** February 20, 2023, 10:13:55 AM »

I seem to recall that the plywood/epoxy thing doesn't work great in high humidity areas? Can't find it now, but I think there was a southeast asian build where the plywood picked up moisture and didn't glue up very well. So I would keep that in mind, hope others chime in with the correct info. What I recall was that building stitch-and-glue in high humidity caused issues due to plywood picking up moisture...

Based on 'fishing rivers and also going offshore', I came to the same conclusion you did. I also had some background with boats (much less than you!) but ultimately came around to following the book about as closely as possible. I think my first question to the community was "can I use PL cement to laminate the transom, instead of epoxy?" Guess how that went.

Anyway, maybe try to build an 18 standard by the book first? Then a bigger skiff from aluminum? We had a big aluminum center console push around here (new england), maybe 20 years ago? Names like black lab/pacific, etc so I still see them around. Lots of happy folks.

cj8mule · « **Reply #2 on:** February 22, 2023, 01:23:36 PM »

Quote from: KenB on February 20, 2023, 10:13:55 AM

I seem to recall that the plywood/epoxy thing doesn't work great in high humidity areas? Can't find it now, but I think there was a southeast asian build where the plywood picked up moisture and didn't glue up very well. So I would keep that in mind, hope others chime in with the correct info. What I recall was that building stitch-and-glue in high humidity caused issues due to plywood picking up moisture...

Based on 'fishing rivers and also going offshore', I came to the same conclusion you did. I also had some background with boats (much less than you!) but ultimately came around to following the book about as closely as possible. I think my first question to the community was "can I use PL cement to laminate the transom, instead of epoxy?" Guess how that went.

Anyway, maybe try to build an 18 standard by the book first? Then a bigger skiff from aluminum? We had a big aluminum center console push around here (new england), maybe 20 years ago? Names like black lab/pacific, etc so I still see them around. Lots of happy folks.

I remember that thread and am not really sure what happened to that guys boat. My Jumbo is handling south florida very well. I'm also building a 32' Great Alaskan Kodiak without any problems so far.

I'd say go for it. We lived around Biloxi (Long Beach) for 5 years or so. I think a 24' Jumbo with 140hp Suzuki (or similar) would be a great boat for that area. My 27' Jumbo can get pretty skinny and still do well 90 miles offshore in the Atlantic. We're pretty far away from each other, but if you are ever in the West Palm Beach area... stop by for a boat barn tour. If the weather is good, we'll go for a ride!

--dave

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Author Topic: Hello from Mississippi (Read 342 times)

BayouDude

Hello from Mississippi

KenB

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cj8mule

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