How to Build a Boat (2019) I Volvo Penta

[@RocinanteGold]

Interesting video! I'm designing a steel workboat for gold prospecting in Norton Sound, Bering Sea.. my design is a derivation of the US Navy LCM-6 hull, but wider and higher - a 56'x19'x8.5' box, 50 gross tons - so she can transport on her side in the space of two stacked sea containers on a railcar. Here's the thing.. I want to incorporate a pair of your IPS drive systems, D6-400 or so.. but it has been hard to find a concise "designing for IPS drive systems" guide which puts the basic design criteria all in one place. I've found bits and pieces here and there - last night I found a downloadable "Installation Guide", showing minimum and maximum water levels relative to system CL.. but this morning I found your "Introducing IPS2" video, and I realized that those specs are not applicable to the drive I'm designing for. When I search your website for documentation, it asks for the engine model and serial numbers - I don't have these because I haven't bought the engines yet, and I don't have enough design information to evaluate whether these systems are suitable for my application. For example.. steel hulls - I can't find anything describing how to build the drive system interface into a steel hull.. but also no indication that your system isn't applicable to steel hull craft. Beyond this, the general tone of the Volvo website seems to be "Find your nearest dealer, they'll help you".. but I need the info you give OEMs, not the info OEMs give their dealers to give end users.

[@jappecoco]

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[@CrazyFlyingFinn]

Hmmm! Where can i find the plans for your boat??!!??

[@johnhelton457]

I prefer to build with Woodglut plans.

[@gregrandol2801]

There are many similar projects in Woodglut's plans.

[@philipstreechon4523]

It looks good now BUT wait until water gets into the wood in a few years and it will be junk wood sucks you should know that there are materials that will not rot, and look this up why you should never fiberglass over wood boat hull.

[@su.su-1999]

Why shouldn't you? Will the fibreglass detatch? And what if cedar wood is used and then then the entire boat is fibreglass?

[@kevinlytle6215]

Properly built wood composite boats last a very long time. Using marine grade ply and sheathing with glass and epoxy saturating the wood doesn't eliminate moisture intrusion but for practical purposes it does. We had a boat built in this method that was over twenty years old and used often with no signs of wood rot or loss of strength. 1,000s are built this way each year. many more 1,000s of light small craft like canoes and kayaks which often hit rocks or are beached are built this way.