Passage to the Dry Tortugas National Park in a Homebuilt Surf Scoter 22

Navigating from Key West to the Dry Tortugas in a homebuilt Devlin Surf Scoter 22 in early October.
Winds were East 1l0-15mph on arrival and gusting +23 mph on departure.
Hull 22 foot semi-displacement
West Marine epoxy resin and Dragon Mahogany
115 Yamaha outboard
Powertech 4 blade stern-lifting prop
Seastar HD Jackplate
110 gallons fuel
Lowrance Elite7ti chartplotter
Patriot Drum anchor winch
ACR Locator beacon
Standard Horizon VHF radio
Shakespeare 8 foot high-gain antenna

[@joew717]

Damn she's a tank! Looks like a great boat for beating around Florida and the Bahamas with a nice dry ride and can take a beating. Good call on the controls in the cockpit too so you can fish/troll or dock without having to run back and forth

[@smudgey1kenobey]

Bravo! You built one heck of a boat! That could be a dangerous trip, but you and the Surf Scoter weathered it all. Congratulations!

[@SurfBandFan]

Nothin quite like the hour that each moment seems to last forever.

[@martywagner9986]

Excellent Video Thank you for posting it. It is great to see a surf Scoter in Action. !!

[@whomitmayconcern]

love it, your boat seams heavy.

[@rapidrrobert4333]

Living my dream except Great Lakes.

[@cWatts-zv3oo]

Hats off man! Ya got balls! Contemplating doing this in my 22 cdory

[@josephhertzberg2734]

Really fun video!!

[@danielhall3105]

Well done trip log. The audio was difficult to hear from time to time. Too bad about the weather at Dry Tortugas but still a great showing for the little Surf Scoter.

[@kristophercharles8863]

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[@jamesondexter1761]

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[@henrydarian285]

@Kristopher Charles Definitely, I have been watching on InstaFlixxer for years myself :)

[@sagecristian8144]

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[@osu3221]

How is the boat doing? I think the boats flipping awesome. I'm really thinking about the surf runner 25 and I guess now there's a surf runner 27 Devlin. Very cool build!!!! Best think about it is just 115hp, that's my style!

[@osu3221]

I wonder if some simple spray rails will help a bit. But I know when the wind is blowing and the sea is tall that everything wet.

[@brownsrvlifecampground9322]

You made a cool video when are you going back also do you travel to Bahamas in the same boat I am going to try to make that trip sometime this year I am looking to follow someone in the future to the island

[@Ceviche956]

Awsome!!!!

[@GNARLOUSE]

Nice!

[@bowmanlegacies]

great boat! It is a dream of mine to build one similar. Did you have a blue print to go by? I would also like for my boat to be build to go longer distances.

[@sckirschstein]

Would be grateful fir a boat tour and no music to enjoy the constructed details

[@markhorrell9213]

Yeah...this little ship has Great lines.

[@billgordon4423]

Enjoyed your video. Thanks. I didn't catch it all, but got the impression you felt comfortable in your boat. Can you comment on what you think of the design? Thanks, Bill

[@whyzzzard]

It was a pleasure to build and it performs exactly as Sam described.

[@billgordon4423]

@@whyzzzard Just a note to say thanks for the reply. Yeah I've had my eye on this and other Devlin designs. Cheers.

[@JMc.D]

Is that the area where Gordon coopers treasure on discovery is based?

[@jeremiah1059]

I got seasick from watching this. Also had me questioning my eye glass prescription with the ultra closeup, out of focus wet camera lens footage. At the least the majority of the sound was inaudible. Otherwise great job on the video.

[@someotherdude]

Why is that outboard so LOUD ??

[@HondoTrailside]

Things are actually louder than we think they are. Unless it is a sound we don't like Same reason that when you do a wedding video, and a small regular car drives by, it kills all the sound on the tape, yet in everyday life it would hardly be noticed. Psycho acoustics. We hear what we want to, or think we hear. So an acoustic guitar does not have a large enough air volume to produce the fundamental tone of the bass strings, but we never notice, because even the non-players in the audience just fill it in. Get yourself a cheap meter off ebay and actually measure the decibels of things in the environment. We are set up so that while the energy of sound doubles for every 3 decibel increase, we see the decibel scale as nearer to linear. Which is why you need to be so careful about noise like rock concerts, gunfire, or ear buds. People will happily go deaf.

[@javisponsor2537]

El motor lo lleva a fondo consumiendo 37 litros de combustible por hora.

[@iq6840]

I know it's been some time but how are you and how's the scoter?

[@whyzzzard]

This one's a little green from being on land. I'd like to do an update on all the boats. I've rebuilt the hovercraft. The duck boat need new top deck glass, and the dory has shit the bed.

[@iq6840]

@@whyzzzard DEFINATELY do an update.

[@groundzero.]

So why did you choose the single point? Was it the cost over safety? or cost over luxury?

[@whyzzzard]

Do you mean single prop? The plans are for single prop, and I'd not radically alter the design, so Id say safety over cost. Also,. I the 115hp is the lowest hp that has digital NEMA output allowing for a modern head unit. Rather than a busy guage cluster, luxury and modernity influenced my choice.

[@groundzero.]

No, single point of failure. 1 motor. Instead of two motors. What is your plan if something happens to your only motor?

[@whyzzzard]

@@groundzero.I carry parts and tools to keep it running. I wanted to build a light sport aircraft at one time so I carry the same philosophy as a pilot. Also, we have Seatow on call and I can stop to take a leak!

[@christopherstainer3271]

What's the measurements of this boat, I'm interested

[@whyzzzard]

22x8' the widest you can trailer, even 30 foot or longer boats on trailers arent more stable as the boats stability is based on width not length the max width on the highway is an 8 foot wide load.

[@sckirschstein]

How looks the under deck cabin?

[@whyzzzard]

I'll do a walkthrough video eventually, but this video is filmed in the cockpit here kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6iWZ2t_g76KhM0