Was that a smile or a smirk?

Mrs. 914 hs been with the program long enough that when I roll in with something weird, shes just giggles and goes back inside. 

Hobie 16 and tilt trailer $80.

3/4" plywood - FREE

Eye bolts for the bow - $6

Stainless fasteners - $8.

High Hide oil base gloss paint - $31. (you get the left overs for touch up)

Gloss black paint for the trailer - $12.

Plastic Adirondack Chairs - $42.

Still need wheels and tires, about $60.

So, what would you do?   Add a motor and MacGuyver some kind of cable steering or just turn it over for a cash offer As-Is?

Thanks.

In reply to 914Driver :

Profit

Sell it now.

Find the biggest motor you can and and keep playing until somebody gets hurt.

What am I having thoughts of a SBC direct drive to a prop?  I think it'll fit and balance it out right in front of the deck. 

In reply to Stampie :

On top of the deck might be too high and make it unstable. Maybe cut an SBC sized hole and mount the engine where the crank centerline is just below the deck? 

Heck with a motor. 150ft of high quality rope,  moored to a piling on a freshwater pond, a cooler full of ice and beverage, 2 cans of corn, a minnow trap, box a jig heads and rubber tails and a pair of fishing rods and you have a stellar afternoon. 

(Don't forget a wide brimmed hat and sunscreen, and I'd possibly consider fabricating up some form of hammock mounting).

Install 8 foot reed valve style pulse jet between the pontoons and two large propane tanks on the pontoons for fuel.  Get some SERIOUS hearing protection and go to the local lake and test to see if they have any noise ordnances.

Battery rack below the deck and an electric trolling motor. Nice and quiet. 

When I was a kid, the guy that played a clown in the water ski club may parents were in, built a Hobie-ish out of two WW2 airplane add on tankers and put an outboard inside a ring poking through the center.  He sat on a bar stool and the OB had handlebars on the cover.

Cool idea, but I was only 8.

Just wait 'til the guy who built this dies: 

Stuff is always cheap at estate sales (especially if it was the cause of flaming death).

aircooled said:

Install 8 foot reed valve style pulse jet between the pontoons and two large propane tanks on the pontoons for fuel.  Get some SERIOUS hearing protection and go to the local lake and test to see if they have any noise ordnances.

You probably won't need to worry about putting on clean underwear that morning. 

the problems with hobies is they do not plane. Their hulls are like razorblades in the water. You add massive power, you are just going to dig two trenches in the water until the whole thing submerges.

In reply to mad_machine :

We're trying to engineer Wiley Coyote's speed boat here. No place for that logic and physics talk.

I hope to pick up new wheels and tires today, think $250 is fair?

914Driver said:

Hobie 16 and tilt trailer $80.

 80 bucks?  Seriously?!  How much does a mast and rigging set go for?

mad_machine said:

the problems with hobies is they do not plane. Their hulls are like razorblades in the water. You add massive power, you are just going to dig two trenches in the water until the whole thing submerges.

What I`'m hearing is: We need to ghetto engineer a hydrofoil setup for this thing.

Duke said:

mad_machine said:

the problems with hobies is they do not plane. Their hulls are like razorblades in the water. You add massive power, you are just going to dig two trenches in the water until the whole thing submerges.

What I`'m hearing is: We need to ghetto engineer a hydrofoil setup for this thing.

Sadly, this D.I.Y. hydrofoil parts appears to have sold already.