Step by step instructions on how to build a wooden boat for fishing this video shows you how we built ours and it floats very well. the basic flat-bottomed boat is great for farm ponds, creeks and. Although more "features" could be added to make the osprey 18 more like the production boats that are available, i'd keep it as simple as possible. it will perform better and be much less expensive to build and maintain. the osprey 18 flats skiff should make a fine little boat for the serious flats fisherman.. The decision to build it was october 2009 when i first decided i wanted to build my own boat, i was really lucky in that a friend of mine, who is a boat builder by trade, was in the process of building a boat in a garage right down the road from my office..
Do a google on "eighteen foot flats boat stitch and glue" there are several easy to build--and relitatively cheap. should be a good project for a few weekends. several different types from a flat bottom skiff to a low dead rise semi dory.--all should run well.. Rob and benji setting up the jig on the redfish 17 12/17/2010.. Custom flats boat build chronicling the construction of an 18-foot flats skiff, designed for fishing backwaters in carolina. monday, october 15, 2012. poling platform mounted. while at a boat shop in fayetteville i found a steal on a poling platform built by blue point welding out of florida (was originally built to go on a ranger ghost)..
