ok, ive been goin crazy worryin about my 14x44 holding a 35 gdsd, then out of curiosity i pulled a tape from the transom to the tip of the bow and it measures 15'2". wtf? the boat is registered as a 14. so i went on godevils website because i knew they had cad drawings of their boats, and what do you know- a 16 footer is exactly that-16 foot. (according to cad drawings). so what im getting at is actually my boat is only 10" shorter than one of the most popular gd boats-16x44. so now im jus gonna say fu(k it and slap it on the back and see what it does. i guess what im wanting to know is- do all manufacturers measure from different points on a boat to determine their length?

Wear a life jacket

you still didnt answer the ? J. and u a boat builder

Most boats are measured at the water line when at rest. You measured overall length.

A boat is overall length.
So, if you have a fan tail, you pull off of it to the tip of bow.

That water line comment is just straight up STUPID.

An UncleJ 17x48 is 18'10"x48... It may be metric...

Must depend on which end of the tape measure ya holdin.

Believe that, and I'll sale you some ocean front property in Arkansas

J how much an acre? ;

Bass_coonass,
For you, 60k each

Buy 2, get one acre free

thats a deal of the yr right there.

Weld a 10" peice of flatbar to the bow and you will have a 16x44....


if you have a 16 foot boat with a 4 foot rake and a 18 ft boat with a 6 ft rake you have the same amount of surface area on the bottom.

the 14ft measurment would prolly be if your boat was flat fronted, your pointed bow prolly adds 14"

Your boat is measured from the stern to the front of the bow.



Autogate, you have a 15' boat, they aren't that uncommon of a size. Congrats, it's bigger than you thought.

dmd, i have always dreamed of that happening

Overall length means nothing; gives one no sense of vessel's attributes. Bow rake alone can vary the overall length of a small boat by 2 feet or more. So two boats with the same overall length might have drastically different draft, planning and load carrying characteristics. So the OL is meaningless.

This is not controversial! Boat manufacturers have for a long time used OL to stretch the lengths of their vessel in a deceptive way. LWL (length at water line) plus type of hull (displacement, planning, multichine, round, etc) use to be the standard way to describe a vessel. I'm not saying LWL it's not a way to describe a vessel; its just a bad way. I should have been more specific in my initial post. Sorry.

Quit being A pu@$y,and run it..... I run a 16/44 and have no troubles.Others are just skeered....

Do ya'll realize what you are arguing about?

Just saying

kind of sounds like some one is wanting to add a few inches to their length
Must be lacking