BarraMan's Mangusta 21 barraboat in Townsville, AUS

[TomW1]

Sorry duplicate something crazy going on.

[TomW1]

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[TomW1]

Browndog the man that built the PH22 was Kingfish.

Tom

[TomW1]

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[TomW1]

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[BarraMan]

What is the draft, top speed of your boat and with what horsepower engine? Considering building a Mangusta 20 modified to have a fishing layout with a single outboard, center console, leaning post, with front and rear casting decks and one of my goals is a top speed over 50 MPH. Primary use will be inshore fishing.

Keeping in mind that my boat is a Mangusta hull up-scaled by 10% and built with a side console and bass boat style front and rear casting decks.

1) I estimate its draft on the plane is about 18". I regularly run quite happily in 36", start to pay attention in 26", start to slow down in 24" and drop off the plane in 20". At rest can draw 18 - 24" depending on where the jack plate is positioned.

2) I have run my boat at just nudging 50 kts (58 mph) flat out! It sits quite comfortably at that. It would go faster if I prop'd it for speed rather than power. For me, 50 kts is FAST for a 22' boat. I am quite happy cruising at 30 kts, which seems to be a 'sweet spot'! I have yet to be overtaken by any other boat where I fish!

3) It has a Yamaha 250 Vmax SHO 4 stroke hanging on the back!

4) Jacques recommends 250 hp max on the Mangusta 20. I have no doubt that it would easily do 60 mph with 250 on the back. Having gained a lot of experience with my boat I know it would be happy with 300 hp - but to what point?

5) My boat handles very nicely and has no vices!

[fallguy1000]

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The website seems to be 'hanging' when you hit submit. I have been having trouble, but attempting to not drive Jaysen berzerk.

Barraman, the boat is amazing.

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[Jaysen]

Overnight slow was network between severs (no load on servers) and posters (Cloudflare said backend was slow). No idea.

[fallguy1000]

Overnight slow was network between severs (no load on servers) and posters (Cloudflare said backend was slow). No idea.

Let's move this over to oh oh.

[BarraMan]

After 7 yrs in service and a conservative 55,000 km ( 34,000 miles) on the trailer, I climbed under the boat with a hammer last weekend to assess the state and security of the hull.

The hull remains very sound! A few scratches and some rubs from the trailer (paint only), but a couple of spots towards the front of the keel where there are small rub spots down to the wooden core.

Not a structural issue but I can’t leave the core exposed, so I have implemented a repair plan - an additional 6x layers of 12oz biax tape with staggered edges (2", 4", 6", 8", 10", 12") along the vulnerable part of the keel.

A 120 grit sanding disk on an angle grinder made quick work of removing paint and graphite down to bare glass, with the graphite layer a useful marker for sanding back to the glass.