Fiberglass Jon Boats On Ozark Waters

[taxidermist]

http://www.fascoepoxies.com/products.html

Steel flex with Teflon in it is great for aluminum boats, slides right off hte trailer and over rocks like nothing it there.

I have it on the aluminum boat.

[kevthebassman]

One other thing to keep in mind is that a fiberglass boat is pretty easily repaired unless you really smash it up. It's dirty, itchy work, but glassing is so easy a caveman can do it.

[taxidermist]

Hey I resemble that remark! Yes you can do glass in the back yard at 35F!!!

[kevthebassman]

Hey I resemble that remark! Yes you can do glass in the back yard at 35F!!!

I used to do glassing for a living, I've done it colder than that my friend, just got to mix it HOT HOT HOT! If it looks like it's about to catch fire in the cup, it's almost hot enough to glass on those cold days! Of course that sort of thing is easier to stomach doing when someone else it paying for the resin, glass, and MEKP, and you're glassing on a vault that's going to get buried in the ground anyway. I've done some very beautiful fiberglass work, and some very, very ugly fiberglass work that got the job done.

Go to this page and look at picture #'s 34 thru 37.

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[gotmuddy]

Anyone run a jet pump on a shawnee type boat?

[Greasy B]

Yep, see the long winded comment further up this thread. I have a 2 cycle 20hp jet on a 21’ Shawnee. I think it works out well for how I like to float fish. I take this boat through some pretty skinny water on many Ozark rivers. With two fishermen and overnight gear the river john doesn’t really get on plane, it just sort of levels out, when the waters low you always need to find the deepest water in the shoals to get through without eating gravel. That’s not as hard as it seems, if you’ve spent much time canoeing or jet boating and you’re smacking rocks, bottoming out or vacuuming up gravel you can usually look around and see the path you should have taken to get through. A couple of extra inches of water are all you need. Understanding of the USGS river gage flows will also go along toward letting you know what is navigable and what isn’t.