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calcutta37
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Joined: Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:46 am Posts: 13
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 Aluminum Cat
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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Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:10 pm |
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fowllife08
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:25 pm Posts: 3676 Location: down in da flats, LA
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
No. Bout the closest ive seen 
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Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:51 pm |
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Brady
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:15 pm Posts: 2552
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
^^ good stuff
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Sun Mar 09, 2014 6:59 pm |
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Old School
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:44 pm Posts: 3067 Location: Earth
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
There is a homemade one in Venice with gator tails. I'll try a get some pics, its fugly…. 
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Sun Mar 09, 2014 7:21 pm |
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txkingfisher
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:09 am Posts: 1121 Location: SETX
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
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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Sun Mar 09, 2014 7:49 pm |
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fowllife08
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:25 pm Posts: 3676 Location: down in da flats, LA
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
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Sun Mar 09, 2014 7:50 pm |
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txkingfisher
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:09 am Posts: 1121 Location: SETX
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
I'm thinking his thought process is that a cat would be faster?
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Sun Mar 09, 2014 8:02 pm |
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calcutta37
MMT Member
Joined: Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:46 am Posts: 13
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
Really not a true cat but what do ya'll think about something like this??
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Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:21 am |
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calcutta37
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
With a console like this.
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Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:23 am |
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fowllife08
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:25 pm Posts: 3676 Location: down in da flats, LA
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
Looks different. I just dont think your gonna be happy with results.
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Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:49 am |
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SETx Longtail
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Sun Sep 01, 2013 2:53 pm Posts: 3480 Location: Hardin County, Tx
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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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Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:22 am |
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calcutta37
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Joined: Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:46 am Posts: 13
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
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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Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:57 am |
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eljefe
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Joined: Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:32 am Posts: 5210 Location: Beaumont Texas
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
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.
you drink the kool aid, id rather drink the whiskey and raise hell!!!!
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txkingfisher
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:09 am Posts: 1121 Location: SETX
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 Re: Aluminum Cat
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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calcutta37
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