I'm gonna build a boat (i think)

[CNYDWW]

Randy:
A canoe design can be modified to work for a small pontoon but the basic pontoon shape for a slow moving platform is so simple it might be easier to do it yourself from scratch. The main thing that could be a bit of a challenge is the whole weight distribution and flotation aspect. You don't want too much captive air keeping it so high it doesn't handle worth a heck and you sure don't want the pontoons going down too low!
Unless you plan on having a pontoon that really moves fast under power just about any entry lines work and you don't really need a canoe back end. You do need a closed top and a flat top is a heck of a lot easier to put your deck on than the usual canoe shape of the gunwales.
I've seen designs as simple as a torpedo shape tied together with a deck to highly sophisticated v-hulls that get up on plane and fly with a whole darn houseboat up there.

What i was planning on doing was to leave the shape however it came out and add two bulkheads and cap off the center with canvas and resin to seal it up. Using each end for a bit of storage. The parts i cut at 9" high at the center and if i'm right it would be fine for floating downstream on an easy day. I was actually going to make a steel tube frame to go between the pontoons and attach a regular plastic boat seat. Add a couple foot pegs or bar and be done with it. Much like one of these

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Creek...h-All+Products

This boat (which i ordered today when i found the sale) is what i was going after but for this price i don't think it's worth the effort to go through making the boat myself.

Here are a few pics of what i was playing with.

[CNYDWW]

well along with your life jacket make sure you take your "water-let-er-out-er"

Yeah sure thing jack, i've got a couple right here in the shop

[genek]

I like the canoe you were making better... Would you share the design in dxf...
If so send it to eking1953@yahoo.com.. I have a brother in law that teaches school and he has been wanting one...

[CNYDWW]

Here is where i got the PDF for the design.

http://www.bateau2.com/free/cheapcanoe.htm

[genek]

Thanks will try this..

[space67]

Have you tired this?
Must be the best free Kayak software ever

KayakFoundry

[crash5050]

I just gotta figure out how to get this thing out of the basement. !

[Ross Leidy]

Have you tired this?
Must be the best free Kayak software ever

KayakFoundry

That's my site and software, so thanks for the kind words. KayakFoundry is really geared toward strip-built kayak designs, and you really need a couple hundred hours to dedicate to building one, not to mention the space. Fun winter project, though.

[curtiss]

....I'm gonna build a boat (i think)

I think Ted Hall said that once, and just "built a bot" instead...

[crash5050]

I just gotta figure out how to get this thing out of the basement. !

Ask Gibbs, he got his out of the basement and sailed it to Mexico and gave it to Mike. Durn thing came back with 3 dead bodies in it though, so watch out.