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gerard haubert - 6 years ago

How much does the floor add to the weight of the boat?

dellam04 - 7 years ago

do you know how much does the bareboat weight with out engine and mods?

manko330 - 7 years ago

65lbs

José Antonio Méndez Lozano - 7 years ago

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J - 7 years ago

Man! Your project is the exact same I have in mind. I already have my alumacraft boat. Just trying to decide what motor. Not too big.

manko330 - 7 years ago

look at the video i did on m new 6hp portable,The motor kicks ass ,fast,easy to load good range with gas tank open range, i built two jackplates,i will add the new jackplate in aq week.

Lars Vegas - 7 years ago

get a older yamaha malta .. all the sailing schools use em over here.. they never die... and light enough to carry and put on.. a 10 hp motor is a hassle.. unless u get a brand new one..

gunlover1955 - 7 years ago

40 or 50 miles to the gallon, lol.

Nathan Tribble - 7 years ago

2.5?! Thats it? On a 12 ft

manko330 - 7 years ago

your mom love`s it when i take her for a ride.nice and slow.

Lonnie Clemens - 8 years ago

Good video! Thank you for sharing.

plutoplatters - 8 years ago

the plywood "feet/standing" area is great....

plutoplatters - 8 years ago

beautiful rig.... and I don't see the customary 15 different fishing rods ? ( haha)

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Zac Stephenson - 8 years ago

How much would all of that weigh?

Drew V - 8 years ago

Check out copperhead mud motors. The 6.5hp and the 12hp are great for small boats. Can go through anything and they are light weight

Luna - 8 years ago

Too close filming. I can't see the boat like this.

manko330 - 7 years ago

You must need glasses.One eye.

Steve Ve - 9 years ago

Nice video... good luck. I been fishing out of 12 foot Jon for years. I just throw in the back of the truck. This year up graded to a used 5 HP Yamaha 2 stroke with internal tank. Caught many of muskie and small mouth out of it.

Darlene Chung - 9 years ago

Can you please tell us where you bought the yamaha? We bought a 3.5 mercury from bass pro shop and it keeps leaking oil on us. We keep bringing it to their shop for fixing. We're now too tired of keep bringing it back to bass pro shop for repair.

Buck creek - 10 years ago

Nice vid man I have a 15 ft. jon boat much heavier though

Eddie E - 10 years ago

nice setup

Josh no - 10 years ago

Nice real nice!

Backwater Production - 10 years ago

Well why didn't just get a gator tail

aj goodson - 10 years ago

good luck unloading that, hard enough to load without the motor because the boat alone ways 65 pounds and it 10 foot long

Fishing Mojados - 8 years ago

aj goodson you do realize that makes no fucking sense

manko330 - 10 years ago

hey dumb ass. just because your the guy who was beat up in high school, or fat ass 65 pounds is light, no clue

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fasignal - 10 years ago

Nice I love the portable way and the flat floors , great . In 1986 I bought a Johnson 4 horse ultralight outboard it had a wrap around gas tank worked great

Christopher Bowers - 10 years ago

i have a alumacraft jet boat 1448 and i go everywhere smallmouth bass fishin everywhere in the river i grew up on for guide service contact chris at 423 202 1835

C moore - 10 years ago

i live in tulsa. In 1990 i got a similar idea except i wanted something for the upper illinois river for the sand bass run and when i didn't want to take my bass boat. Coleman used to make an 11 ft boat they called the crawdad. It came in 2 trims. The one i got had a carpeted floor and swivel seats. I wired mine so i could mount a trolling motor on the front. I came across a trailer that is good because it stuck out too far to be legal. In oklahoma you have to have 3/4 of the load inside the bed, measured before the tail gate. You should check the laws. My brother lives in pearland, tx and said our laws are ablut the same. I ended up selling mine because even tbough i could pull it with a honda gold wing and did once for laughs, a 4 horse yamaha wasn't enough motor. You will be amazed how much weight you will have. a trolling motor battery alone will weigh 50 lbs. Everything sounds like fun but do yourself a favor and get more motor NOW. After you use it, it will be worth less. to put this in perspective, minkota used to sell a 3 and a 4 hp 12 volt trolling motor. They now just market the thrust numbers. The point is this. Your outboard will not work as well as a high quality 12 volt and nowhere near what a 24 will do.

Sydney Wolaver - 10 years ago

manko330 is the boat 32" or 36" wide? Did you get it at Academy? Thanks.

Norns20 - 10 years ago

Is it just me or i cant find the other parts, great work thus far thou im doing something similar right now but adding a deck from middle seat up to front, Alumacraft 1236 :)

mixflip - 11 years ago

Hello i have fished when i was a kid and recently wanted to get back into it 20 years later. I have been researching fishing kayaks all day and stumbled across your video which is obviously not a kayak. Now you have my wheels turning. I have 2 little boys and now that I see how easy it is to load and unload a jon boat into a truck I think a small jon boat like yours would be alot more family friendly. Any helpful tips now that you have a couple years experience with this setup?

manko330 - 11 years ago

@mixflip hello buy the widest boat for more people, my son is 6"4 230lb. the boat work out fine in smooth water..the 12 ft is best for one person.not a family.

GM Soul - 11 years ago

Where do you fish love the boat

manko330 - 10 years ago

@George Cantu tx Galveston bay to Freeport tx. Christmas bay is a shallow with low winds.

Mark Burns - 11 years ago

I think the boat is nice an I'm thinking about getting sumthing similar. Fuck the haters.

manko330 - 11 years ago

are you still mad ? I love dumb asses, who never fished the gulf coast, no clue!.

ya diggz - 11 years ago

Lmao!!! As long as your happy

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Amarachi Joseph Obiah - 11 years ago

where can I get a plan for a boat like this....anybody got one

SoUTh Outdoors - 11 years ago

Check out my setup its a tracker 10 with a 3.5 hp holds good in choppy water and barge traffic never failed on me 10 ft tracker jon boat flat bottom with a 3.5 hp 2013 4 stroke outboard

manko330 - 12 years ago

take a look at my flounder&trout video for the finish project.love it! the boat takes me where I want to go.

Mike S - 11 years ago

@manko330 Good boat. I entered key words "motorized lightweight boat" and came to your video. I live in So. NH, right along Great Bay, and the Striped Bass fishing here is incredible (30-40 pounders are common), but getting out there on a wide canoe isn't the best bet--especially for two! It's still on the ocean, and they're not small fish, so with 2 ppl fishing, I want something very stable and be able to both stand up w/o worrying about flipping in the water. We have a big common dock (for kayak, canoe launches), so I wanted something I could easily take down there, and still be able to launch it.

manko330 - 12 years ago

$599.00

bettyboop65340 - 12 years ago

how much was your boat

quietmale00101 - 12 years ago

you should adapt it for floundering too im near corpus and the flounder are fun at night in the shallows put a removable lean post on the bow with underwater lights and a trolling motor on the back with a switch set the motor to desired speed and steer with your gig as soon as i can get a clear title to the 12 ft alumacraft i have im going to do just that with a 15 hp gas for long distance runs and trolling motor for fishing removable so i can also use it on the lake for bass crappie and cats

manko330 - 12 years ago

now with a finish boat and time on the boat .love it .easy to load. plus rides nice and handles saltwater fishing. one thing is I am the only rider. two people 50/50.