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Anyone have small catameran with a surface drive? Found a few builders online and was just wanting some feedback on them..


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No. Bout the closest ive seen :lol:


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^^ good stuff

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There is a homemade one in Venice with gator tails. I'll try a get some pics, its fugly…. :)

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Why would you want a multihull? You need a straight, flat bottom to flatten the surface of the water to give the surface piercing prop a stable environment to run in......

Not to mention how awful a twin hull would sink down and dig into the mud........

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I'm thinking his thought process is that a cat would be faster?

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Really not a true cat but what do ya'll think about something like this??


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With a console like this.


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Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:23 am
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Looks different. I just dont think your gonna be happy with results.

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I'd think as long as your transom height and angle were both right, and the hull was flat for about the last 1/3 it would run pretty well. It would work good for fishing real shallow stuff and vegetation. I just don't think it would do worth a damn in the mud. That front end wouldn't want to get on top. It would want to cut through. Not what you want.

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This would be used to fish reds in the marshes of cocodrie when the wind is blowing to hard to hit the islands in my bay boat.
Just want something different and saw these pics online. Thanks for the different input.


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What's the point? Because it's not a flat it will Draft more and not give you clean water to prop.....I'd put on outboard on it.. then again if I were doing that I'd get a tunnel hull boat and Jack plate.

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Countless hours of R&D have gone into the current standard for surface drive mud boats. Don't think you're going to reinvent the wheel all by yourself. Stick with what's proven.

+1 to what eljefe said..... get you a tunnel-jon and a jackplate.

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