Good for you! I’ll be stoked to see the progress. That is awesome. Hope to follow in your footsteps and build my own one day.

I can attest to specmar, I’m very familiar with their hulls. I’ve driven a few and seen others perform very well.

 

Can’t wait to follow along! Nothing quite like captaining a boat you built!

 

Fantastic. I love this kind of stuff. I've tried to document my projects in the past but it turns out I am terrible at remembering to take photos along the way.

 

Wow! That is awesome! Keep the updates coming!

 

Awesome!! Looking forward to following your progress.

 

Love build threads! And good on ya for doing it. Can't wait to see it come together.

 

Good luck with your project and look forward to following the progress!

 

NIce boat. You are going to love the walkaround pilothouse with deck space to spare. The extra 2/3 of a boat to fish from is a game changer. What power are you going to run?

 

Planning on going 200 Suzukis but the Yamaha helm master system is pretty tempting.

 

What an awesome project!

I would love to do the Specmar 29 AK S/F, but I sure would not want it to look like "I" welded it.

 

Love build threads! Will be following.

 

This will save you a boat load of money doing the build yourself. If you're not now, you will be an excellent welder by the end of the project

 

LOVE a good DIY boat build thread and seeing the talent some of you guys have for this type of thing.

Good luck on your project and thanks for taking us along on your journey.

 

Which hull is this design based on?

 

looks like it is based of the 3129 plan

26.5 X 9 Deep V Sportfisher (3129) | Aluminum Boat Plans & Designs by Specmar

www.specmar.com

 

Did you design it yourself (besides the cabin)? I'd be very interested to see the whole blueprint. What do you expect it to cost? Curious how your expectation vs final cost turns out.

 

The hull is the 3129 hull but I sketched up the cabin I wanted and he fit it in to the design. As of right now I’m just shy of 30k after materials and design.

I should be able to work on it some more tomorrow and the next day so I’ll update with some new pics when I get more done.

 

So it's been 2 days without any updates. OP needs to understand that we are living vicariously through him.

 

Couple more pics from tonight.

 

So this is a complete kit with all the pieces pre cut and formed? Obviously not the gentle curves but where pieces can be sheared and broke they are? Chines? Windows? Hinges/latches? Also with what appears to be some jigs to get the correct angles? Sorry if dumb questions, I’ve never heard of this.

 

Yeah this is a kit like you described minus windows, latches, and hinges. There are no jigs for this boat, as it’s called a self jigging construction where you use the cross members and longitudinals to form the boat. Everything that could be bent to shape was via a cnc break. It has ink markings on every piece to show locations where other pieces mate up to them and which part number it is.

There is a company in Australia that called cnc marine that is a one stop shop, but most of the places either in the NW or BC sell plans then you go to an aluminum supplier and then they cut, bend, palletize, and ship it. I used specmar, but the other bigger names I found are Cope Marine, and Conrad Yachts. I actually liked the design of the Conrad probably the most but the boat of his I wanted to build was a 29x9.5 which was just to big for me right now.

 

The Edwing build we did started this same way. Two 22' hull sections with the bends forming the hull and a pile of cut material labeled and stacked on a flatbed. Put this together to make a 'Glider'. Then spend another $65k for engine, controls, and all the finishing parts to make it a boat. Ed sent the files over to the aluminum supplier and they cranked out the kit.

 

Couple more from today. Starting to actually look like a boat.

 

I know pictures can be deceiving, but are you going to be able to build the whole boat in your shop? It looks tight already.

Looking forward to following your build!

 

I was wondering the same thing.

 

Couple more pics from progress over the last couple days. All but one crossmember is in and all the bottom longitudinal are in.

 

Love build threads! DIY is very cool. At least nobody but you (assuming you don’t tell the better 1/2) can complain about change orders. Hahaha.

 

Looking good, pretty awesome biting off a project of that size 👍 looks like you got some great help with you! He'll prob learn a lot hanging around giving a hand in that shop. Looking forward to following along and seeing it all come together.

 

Cool build!