These photos show the sequence of building a one off deck for a friends 17′ Envi home built skiff. He was building in Raka epoxy so that’s what I used. It took me 56 hours of work in his shop with his tools to build the deck and the 4 hatches. The deck is crowned. [...]
Today I will be showing a basic photo chronological list of what I think might be the progression of the upper spray rail history. Well it is at least to me in my short history of being around flats skiffs here in Florida. There are several skiff manufacturers out there today that go back and [...]
The LITHIUM SKIFF IS ALIVE ! After lots of work by Scott Grider, Geneo Baker, Brian Floyd, Eric Shisler, Rob Rummel and a little help from myself, the birth of a new flats skiff concept has arrived. She's out of the mold and has been launched as a bare hull for a few hours of [...]
My good friend Eric Bornstein and I have been discussing the problems of fishing alone in a flats skiff having to pole about with an unbalanced skiff. What about just designing a skiff that is just set up to use a trolling motor for singlehanded fishing? Forget about poling about and just have a balanced [...]
I have updated my old Whipray flats skiff design to reflect my current thinking. I feel the design shown here will be superior in many ways to the past design. I have changed the upper spray rails, the bottom chine, and added in an outer skeg to control high speed turns. The plans can be [...]
