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On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:57:23 -0400, I_am_Tosk
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:47:37 -0400, Gene
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I_am_Tosk wrote:

Yeah, my Brockway is 7 feet wide, and 16 feet long, But being open it is
all floor space. It's great for one and ok for two... Any more than that
is just too crowded. As to handling our old Colombian was 20 feet and
not too bad in a chop, but it had a real small cockpit so for crusing it
was ok for 4, fishing, two was crowded...

Does yours ride like this one?

http://tinyurl.com/2cjhrxo
That really looks like the loading ramp at Lake Jocasse.... and the
weather looks almost as threatening as the last time we were there....

Poor guy needs to learn how to load a boat and trim an engine....
Yes, both. The boat is actually doing what it is supposed to do,
just needs more weight in the bow and a tad more down-trim on the
engine. My brother and I had a flat bottomed skiff like that on Lake
Ontario when we were kids. We had a big slab of limestone that we'd
put in the bow when going out with only one of us on board. It would
plane out at 16 or 17 mph with just a 7 1/2 hp Merc.
What the boat really needs is the proper sized engine for hull speed,
which is what it is designed for. Not a big engine like this guy (and
mine) to make it plane...
Hull speed !?

That's trawler talk for when you need to get 70,000 lbs of boat from
point A to point B without using a king's ransom in fuel. ;-)

Small boats are meant to plane - it's just a lot more fun.

Real Brockways were designed to be pushed around by cheap single digit
horsepower motors before light, high horsepower motors were widely
available cheap... These "small flat bottomed rowboats" as harry notes,
are not designed to move on plane. They were designed for close to home
work and very shallow waters in the Connecticut and Housatonic rivers in
CT.. Mostly by shad and scallop fishermen. They are not comfortable on
plane and don't have skegs as originally designed, they are not "meant
to get on plane"...

On the other hand, they can get on plane of course but they are sketchy
on plane, especially when the water isn't like glass... Most notable is
the stories of chine walk and lost equipment


Unless there is something peculiar about the bottom of a Brockway, it's
just another flat-bottomed skiff-rowboat, and can be made to plane
decently with the right power and load balance. When I was a kid, I
messed around in dozens of flat-bottomed rowboats that could be powered
up and made to plane with a 7-1/2 hp outboard. Everyone I knew at the
beach had a rowboat with a small outboard. Naturally, because of their
flat bottoms, they bounced in a chop.

My favorites were an Amsbury dory and a nice plywood skiff made by a
company called "Skimmar." The bottom of the Skimmar's bow was turned up
a little. Both of these boats would plane with minimum horsepower and
neither exhibited chine walk.

They are not Brockways. Brockways were used with big engines, but not
designed for it, and two sideways two by sixes, don't provide
directional stability... See harry, I have actually been in them, not
just read about it..

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