Kinda of off topic but keeping it evolving I guess. Has anyone mastered a tapered chine with 3/16 material. So the entire boat out of 3/16's? May as well throw in there a tapered rear hunt deck as well, for pushing in reverse as opposed to a lot I have seen that look square. I would think that would act like a dozer blade in the mud, no?

Thanks for all your input everyone I am learning a lot and from my initial thoughts on a boat a lot has changed already for what I would like to see along with the concealed winch.

Phil

I find that if the ice is 2" and good it makes more sense to get out of the boat and push it along.

Phil, you win on the ice. We see some ice, even sometimes 2" thick but nothing like you do. Once I recall slowly running my boat on top of the ice, kinda like putting it on a trailer, then everybody would jump up and down while in the boat to break it. Only had to repeat that process for about 100-200ft in a small channel and it didn't always require the jumping. Then open water.

I think you could do a double taper 3/16 but I'd ask dfou he would know. Can't see how it would be any different than bending the side like the bottom unless the angle is more. I think the problem is when you want to do more than a double taper.

Gator tail boats are tapered in the rear like you are talking about.

Mounted a removable in the front of my gator trax with the receiver hitch style. Works great. The winch can rotate 360 with no problem. Used it the last 3 days.

To answer the question about 3/16 double taper chine, yea it can be done, we do it all the time.