Guy just called Robert at extreme metal fabrication to get a quote below are the specs what do you think?

1754 with hunt deck
mod v
front deck with storage for 3 batteries
18 gallon front custom fuel tank
1/4" bottom
3/16" sides
front winch installed under deck like excel f4
22" side
Gun box
Front seat on deck and 3 even spaced swivels in the middle of boat
marsh grass paint
Gator hide on the bottom
GTR 35 with stage one upgrade
Nav lights and trailer

Cat walks?


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1/4" bottom HOLY CRAP MAN!

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That's a thick bottom and a lot of batteries .. Reasons? Seems like over kill ... But yea I would add catwalks one thing I wish I had on my boat

That's a lot of boat for a stage 1 hell even stage two lol

1/8" sides are plenty

id do 3/16 bottom and 1/8th sides..also wouldnt put seat bases down..get the movable seat bases you can take in and out and move around those welded in bases never seem to be exactly where you need them

Beer holder in catwalk! Two 2inch drain plugs or 1.5

Listen to these fools. They kno what they talkin about ^

I dont think its enough, but it saves weight on an already heavy hull.

Dude is wanting a 1/4 bottom, so he may be in some bad shit.

I don't know how it could get much worse than around here. If 1/8 sides are good enough for you, they should be good enough for just about anybody.

Cat walks sound good! How wide?? The move able seats are a great idea will do for sure! The reason I want a 1/4" bottom is because we have a ton of rock ledges sitting right below the water on the rivers I run. Try floating down the river at 5-8" mph and slamming into a rock on the side of the boat. Dent's aren't what I would call them when this happens more like crators on the side of the boat lol. 3/16" bottom to 1/4" bottom only adds 60lbs and the 1/8" to 3/16" sides adds like 60lbs so your looking at adding 120lbs the entire boat so I weigh 150 lbs and my buddy weighs 170 so that's 320lbs if you have 2 225lb guys that 450 so the boat will weigh the same with me and my buddy vs 2 225 lb guys or is my thinking wrong? the batterys are 1 for the motor and lights and the other two are to run a 24 volt trolling motor. 12 volt trolling motors are useless in my rivers. gtr 35 with a stage 1 won't push it I will put a 150 jet on it and say out of the mud. It's more important to me to have hull protection vs mud motor and jet motor.

This is my boat before the one I have now.

Upside down

Looks like a bummer!

That was last spring floating down the river and a rock caught the side of my boat, and capsized me and threw me and my girlfriend into 47 degree water. we floated down the river a 1/4 mile through rapids before finally getting out. I came a hair from drowning. I was hyperthermic, I had to do cpr on my girlfriend she stopped breathing for over 3 minutes I just about lost her. That was .100 sides when it hit the rock the side collapsed flipping the boat. If I had 3/16" sides I think it would have bounced of the rock instead of caving in.

Maybe you should look into a Teflon bottom, if you ran it up the sides about 8" that would be badass

Maybe even a round chine boat, it would probly deflect off the rocks smoother

i love round chines but i think you would bent the hell out of them in bad rocks. i would build 1/4'' bottom with double taper

Ok, rocks and current is probably a little worse than a few stumps. could you go another 3 foot longer and just a hair wider? Maybe go with duals? That would help overcome weight issues and still be better off than a big outboard.

Thanks guys I didn't miss church for 6 months after that lol!! Yeah she is fine now and to my surprise she still goes out on the water with me. She had to spend a week in the hospital since you inhaled all that water. I don't think I could have lived with myself if she had died. It is forever burned in my mind of me pulling her out of the water with her lips blue almost black!

I talked to marks airboats and he said if you have sharp rocks it will just cut through a UHMW bottom, but I am going to talk to rockproof boats more about it since they have alittle more experience with it in rocks. I wouldn't mind round chines but I need to drift as shallow as possible when floating so I think that cuts round chines out. I do hunt in west TN, Ohio, and Arkansas so that's why I am wanting a mud motor to, but I can get by with a jet if I have to. I wouldn't want to go any longer and wider since our back water sloughs have narrow ditches to get to them off the water. I have a center console now and I am sure a lot of guys love them but I will never get a center console again. I can't maneuver it like a tiller handle. So how wide of catwalks should I get?

A piece of 2x3 3/16 angle welded onto a simple factory gunnel does wonders for stiffening up the sides. Makes them about 5" wide total.

I thought about glueing Uhmw starting at the water line about 8" up

I meant from the bottom edge of the boat up 8"-10" not the water line sorry

I will be ordering a boat from them very soon. Probably in mid April.

If you want to actually walk across them on a regular basis, go at least 6".

Here is mine in 6" on a 1854. Sometimes I wish they were 8" as you don't really lose any floor space.

Finished & painted
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Banded, is that a sportsman fab? Very nice looking boat.

That is a crazy story. Did you take the pick before you performed CPR on your girlfriend? Sorry bro had to ask.