Hi all my first post

I don't know if this should go in Boat Building........... But hay Hoo


I am a reluctant kayak fisherman. Why reluctant, well I wonted a boat but had no where to keep it. I can keep two kayaks without any problems. I have a P13 and a Big Game. But paddling, dam thats hard work. Even when the weather wont let you go out for a few weeks, it's down the Jym to keep up your paddle fitness. Well, it should be but every time I get the erg, I tend to sit down until the feeling passes.

How all this began, I was on a kayaking fishing forum and was told that the Big game was a slow old tug of a kayak. I answered this with, wait till I put my twin Volvo's on meant to be a light hearted jest. This was answered by one of the forums leading lights, making threats and telling me that I will not even think of adding an out board to my kayak. It was as though I had threatened his man hood, with that a few more came in and it got nasty. That is when I thought WHY not and so I got started.

So I fitted a 2.5 Yam 4 stroke out board to my Big Game. I also fitted outrigger for stability and to help carry the weight (15 Kg) of the out board. This also helps me get back to the out board for starting/refueling and so on. The steering is by cable to foot peddles and after a few changes, works well.

I am alway looking of ways to improve, the design and I am looking at the floats of the outriggers. They were never design for anything but stability, to sit on the water more like a kids arm bands.
I wont them to give me lift from about 3 knots on, to pick up my rear end and stop the out board digging in.
So I have been looking at the model boats world for floats, well hulls anyway. My thinking at the moment is a scale model 33 1/2" to long and 11" wide. I am now waiting for them to come from ebay. I will add some more layer to beef them up and make top deck so as to fit the outrigger arms. I want some movement but only a little, this may be controlled by springs or restricted movement a little up a little down to give independent movement. My grate friends Trial and Error will have to be my guide.


This is the first time I tried the yam 2.5 on the water. The video has been taken at an angle that makes the back look more down than it real is. It also shows how after a few knots the floats swing around and act more like sea anchors.
The other two are me testing the out riggers.

Looking through some of the designs on boat design gives me some hope.

http://s257.photobucket.com/albums/h...KING_VIDEO.mp4


http://s257.photobucket.com/albums/h...t=DSCF1435.mp4

http://s257.photobucket.com/albums/h...t=DSCF1436.mp4



.I am also looking at may be redesigning the whole kayak. Making up a mold from the kayak I have and making some changes to the hull in the mold.

Now that Ilan Voyager. Scaled down to 13' to 15'! Oops I am off again.

Think I am mad, You are dam right I am. I know as every one tell me so.

But I can also see a cheap fishing boat, that could be kept in the smallest of places. This could be a Pocket money fishing boat.

If you are a boat builder, I think there is a market.

AJ