Houseboat

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Houseboat

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This question arrived overnight: "I am building a ply on frame Garvey ( Jeff Spira's 19' Galveston stretched to 20' 6"). I am planning on puting an 11' cabin on it with full headroom ( a trailerable houseboat), but hopefully it will retain some good handling characterists). I want to put strakes - 3 - on it to improve low speed handling, especially in a breeze. My vision is 1 1/2" - 2" wide, but I am not sure how deep (thick). Any advice would be greatly appreciated." Jeff

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Re: Houseboat

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For slow speed tracking they would need to be significantly deep. I'd say anything less then 1" wouldn't do much good at all. Being a Garvey hull it shouldn't have as bad an issue with tracking as a flat bottom barge. I'd probably do one on either side, and add a rudder set up to the outboard if you are still having issues.
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Re: Houseboat

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Nevermind, I just looked up a picture. It looks more like a flatbottom dory then a Garvey. I'd go with 3, atleast 1.5" high.
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Re: Houseboat

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I literally just did about the same thing with a totally flat bottom barge hull. I did three 1” “high” x 2” wide runners. The middle one is double height the aft half of the water line.

Can’t speak for how it handles, but that’s what I did. :)

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Re: Houseboat

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My runners are doubling as stringers. Have internal ones midway between. (Or I will when I flip the hull and install them. LOL

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