Double XX Boats

[Basfis]

Techno speaking, the wetted surface area on the tunnel hull is greater than a same width flat bottom. The tunnel is area in addition to forming the plume that allows higher engine positions. 
 

hydrodynamics is a thing. 

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, nomolites said:

If so, the engine can run skinnier

The engine does not run skinnier!!! 

The engine runs where the engine runs.    

Where the boat hull is, in relation to the engine......is the only thing that changes. 

I understand that you guys are hung up on this magical plume of water created by the hull design, and in your mind you see it turning 6" of water into 15" of water, but in reality that doesn't happen.  And even if it did.....if you ever slowed down or stopped you'd be dry docked.   THEN WHADDYA GONNA DO ?   😅

[fishinwrench]

47 minutes ago, Basfis said:

Techno speaking, the wetted surface area on the tunnel hull is greater than a same width flat bottom. The tunnel is area in addition to forming the plume that allows higher engine positions. 
 

hydrodynamics is a thing. 

Gravity is a thing too.   A vertical section of hull does not support anything. 

Which is easier to pull under water, a fat round bobber, or a long skinny quill bobber with the same surface area ? 

Throw a stick like a spear and the whole stick goes under.   But throw it flat and it doesn't even go under at all.

[netboy]

12 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

.....if you ever slowed down or stopped you'd be dry docked.   THEN WHADDYA GONNA DO ?   

Rule number 1 in South Texas boat running... don't throttle back until you have a least a foot of water under you.

[fishinwrench]

20 minutes ago, netboy said:

Rule number 1 in South Texas boat running... don't throttle back until you have a least a foot of water under you.

Well since they all run Mercs and Suzuki's down there......You can throw that rule right out the window.   🤣😂😅

[netboy]

10 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Well since they all run Mercs and Suzuki's down there......You can throw that rule right out the window.   🤣😂😅

I had over 6,000 hours on my 2002 Suzuki 140 when I sold the rig in 2017 and never stranded.

[fishinwrench]

29 minutes ago, netboy said:

I had over 6,000 hours on my 2002 Suzuki 140 when I sold the rig in 2017 and never stranded.

That's just shy of 1 full hour every single day.....for 15 years.  

You must not have a wife, attend church. No staying home during hurricanes, or stopping to fish.   Just out there in the Gulf running around in circles for days on end.... chewing up sand.   😂 

 

You wanna know how much actual running time I put on my 1987 XP150 in a days time?   About 12-20 minutes.  And it feels like I'm in a boat more than I wanna be.  

[nomolites]

6 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

That's just shy of 1 full hour every single day.....for 15 years.  

You must not have a wife, attend church. No staying home during hurricanes, or stopping to fish.   Just out there in the Gulf running around in circles for days on end.... chewing up sand.   😂

A small fraction of that time on LOZ would have you in concussion protocols....😂

Mikw

[netboy]

42 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

That's just shy of 1 full hour every day.....for 15 years.  

You must not have a wife, attend church. No staying home during hurricanes, or stopping to fish.   Just out there in the Gulf running around in circles for days on end.... chewing up sand.   😂

Probably more like 2 hours per trip as we lived in a large subdivision on the Laguna. I had about a 1.5 mile trip through the neighborhood canals at idle speed before I got into the Laguna and then usually around a 8 to 10 mile trip each way to the better fishing/hunting areas. Not to mention the frequent "grass is always greener over there" moves to new locations where the redfish will be stacked up like chord wood (usually didn't pan out).

Probably averaged 5 to 6 days a week fishing or running to my duck blinds during the season. Wife loves to quilt so she kept busy. I would usually go out early and be back for lunch. Pretty much on the same schedule up here. Just got back from a wade at Roundhouse shoals a couple of hours ago, fished the Narrows yesterday and Wildcat the day before. 

Also we had LOTS of company come to Corpus for the fishing and hunting and the kids would come use the house and boat when we went on vacation.

[fishinwrench]

I like boats, but I'd do just about anything to avoid a 2 hour boat ride every other day.   

People move to Lake O and buy a pontoon, with the thought that they are going to spend endless days cruising the lake and enjoying life.   Then 2 months into the pontoons life it becomes a home for wayward spiders, covered in birdshit.  😅