You have an elaborately built round bilge steel yacht and think accordingly.
I have seen Dutch working boats which had steel dinghies made of plate with
chines of course. Looked easy to make but pretty heavy
Edgar

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DSK wrote:
Joe wrote:
Yeah...I'll post a picture of a set of 5 dollar pressed steel tire
ramps designed to hold a truck up and work under it.


You mean the $5 ones that cost $39.99 at Wal-Mart? They
won't hold up a very big truck. And you can't put 3 people
in them to row ashore from a windy anchorage.

And my dinghy will never rust.

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

DSK

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.

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.

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!

Joe