DSK wrote:
BTW how much do you figure it would cost to make a steel
dinghy? How much do you think it would weigh?


Joe wrote:
Well if you had acess to the right stamping equipment and dies it could
be done for around 60 dollars a boat due to the high cost of steel. A
proper powder coating or hot zinc coating might cost another 30
dollars, it's not going to be light enough to be blown over and over
empty, it will not be flapping in the wind while being towed, should
come in at a proper 165lbs est.


There are finerglass dinks that heavy. And a lot of RIBs
weigh that much even without the motor.

Tooling up, is the costly part. Needed a 5000 ton stamping unit and
all.

Someone did it in the 30's, a few are still around.


Back in the late 1800s... 1890s maybe... a method of
stamping sheet steel into lifeboats was perfected and they
were the standard for a long time. They were double-bottomed
and unsinkable.

Guess what they make lifeboats out of nowadays?
All together now... F-I-B-E-R-G-L-A-S-S


Then again you can round the corners of the hood off a 68 Old's, put a
20 hp merc on it and fly like the wind...30 pounds...10 bucks from a
junk yard. You can park yer truck on it too!


It'd look great hanging in davits too, especially with the
hood ornament.... **** now ya tell me, I already spent all
that money on foam & epoxy!!

How's about this one...pretty sleek
http://www.ringvaart.demon.co.uk/ass...dingy_0203.jpg

I always thought a aluminium tube like they use on party deck boats...
shaped like an inflatable with aluminum bottom would be real cool!.

Joe

DSK