Would you loose alot of speed if you would put 3/16 bottom on a 1754 extreme hull w/ hunt deck and stock GTR 35?

Would it even be possible?

THANKS ANY THOUGHTS WOULD BE GREAT

this should get good....

I seen mines name .... I seen mines name .... Mines name has been seen !!!!

Terry is correct ... mines hull is only the .125 and when I went down there to git Gator-Tail to put the build on it .... back in the year of 2007 .... I had already the GTR35 since 2005 ... I do believe it was the first GTR35 in East-Texas I mite add ...... anyways ..... Kyle, Hoyt, and Kyle's Dad gots involved and it went sumthin' like this ....

I said ... ya'lls tell me what I need and I'm gonna tell ya'lls what I want !!! I wanted Extra bracin' so that it would be East-Texas approved. Thay said .... WHAT ???? ... You don't need all that .... I says ... Yep .... has gots to have it !!! Been a DANG good hull too .... I thank all Gator-Tail Boats are now built that way now .... I could be wrong ... but I thank with just a little extra weldin' and a couple more 2x2x3/16th's thay have got 'bout the bestess production hull out there that yore hard-earn can buy.

Now ~ The disapointment part ...... The rake is braced with flat metal .... it's good ... but not "bullet-proof" .... ifin' you hit the rake with too much of a blow .... it will dent. Don't hurt nuthin' but yore feelin's .... but you git a dent fo all to see !!! 'Course keep in mind ... We gots troops over seas rite now that can/is puttin' dents in the tanks thays drive ... in other words ... anythang can git tore up !!!

Where I live and do mines operation at ..... there ain't nuthin' built to this date than can withstand the preasures of daily use ......... Period !!! Mines Gator-Tail has done me a very good job and I would go to them in a heart-beat with mines hard-earn .... it just ain't mines turn again yet.

BUT ~ Thay is always a BUT !!! Ifin' them Gator-Tails ... and all the manufactors fo that matter .... don't quit driven up the price fo us normal Americans ..... I'm gonna go back to mines ole school ways and walk/wade/canue to git to the pleasures of life ..... and that Sirs .. is a

Matr-Fact !!!!!

I call BS on you wading to your spot Brooks

i have 3/16 bottom on my 20'x44'' alum skiff and it runs good. its only like 80# heavier on a 20x4 sheet, and i find that it runs damn good about 34 stage 1 gtr. also as stated before a boat with longitudinal bracing will eventually get a belly in the bottom if in ruff water are cypress knees

Not to compare my hull to another or say mine is better, but I've ran over several stumps and put my boat on over a dirt levy and I haven't had one problem yet. The only dent I have is on the side when fighting a hard wind I tried to throttle around and smacked a metal pipe at a boat launch.

"I've ran over several stumps and put my boat on over a dirt levy and I haven't had one problem yet."

"Also, my argument was never about boats CRACKING, it's about boats DENTING."

O.K.- here is the difference that alot of guys don't understand because they don't have the conditions some of us run. It's not a dig at them but they just don't see it.

On a GOOD day I hit several stumps with my OUTBOARD rig. With my MM rig, I'd bang several every couple hundred yards.

Where I run is hard bottom, not mud that a MM can stick the skeg & prop through and run through. LOTS of stumps. On a calm day you can avoid them by watching the ripples where the current goes around the stumps. Now add wind. (That's when we kill ducks here by the way. More wind the better.) Whitecaps and waves hide the stumps so you can only avoid the ones that are showing themselves between the waves. You have two choices: Idle/go slow and get hung up on the bottom or worse bashed against a stump sideways. (You ain't livin' until your boat is tight against a stump and the other side lifted high in the air by a wave of 40 degree water.)

Other choice is to keep it on plane and slide over the ones that aren't sticking out of the water. Sounds pretty abusive but I've trie both and that is my pick of the two. Most of the time you just slide across. Couple times a year you really clock one.

Then you got to get out of where you hunted. You got a loaded down boat you got to get up on plane. For 40- yards or so it plows until it lifts out of the water. Hit a stump then that is a few inches under the water and it will about take you off your feet.

No .125 boat I have ever seen won't hook right at the transom under those conditions. I would like to try a 3/16 but people smarter than me say it won't matter. Until somebody figures out how to keep a boat from hooking at the transom and denting at the bow I am keeping my cash in the bank. They are too expensive to tear up in 2 friggin years of hunting.

I'm not trying to be a smartass and I would love to have a GT boat. I think they are one of the best looking boats out there.

sounds like you need a 1/4'' bottom anything will dent up if your running on step and hit a stump let alone one every couple of feet

Yeah, come on guys if you need a boat built to your specs then tell the folks what you are running. I called them up & told them what I ran and they built me a tank! If I see a floating log I am wide open throttle towards it no nasty hooks or dents

Boats need to have some flex. That is y truck beds aren't welded to the cab

Craig, is this one of the reasons you run a GoDevil boat?