Crap !!!!

They did not post clear here at all. Cannot figure this out as it seemed very clear... so if you want to see this stuff it is very clear on my facebook photo page under ISO photos. This account is open to the public so you should have no trouble.  So...

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Hells Bay Boatworks advertisement 10/3/97

What ! It's only been 17 years and look at where our dollar has gone. These are the prices we started out with. In today's market I would be looking for a used skiff as the best bang for the buck. As you see Hal Chittum knew what he wanted to start saying about...

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Shallow water skiff shapes, ideas

Here are some of my old musings of developing skiff shapes to bring to reality. As I described earlier in my blog of how I like to make a half hull of my vision - idea . I do this after I have done all my weight calculations in advance. Shown are a few past ideas...

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Chris Morejohn's history of Hells Bay Boatworks beginning till 2001

The word technical flats skiff did not exist when we launched our first skiff. At that time the game plan and goal for Hal and Flip was to build a very simple, no extras, fishing machine that could get across the bay relatively dry and comfortable using small simple power. Something that would be able to float in very shallow water and possible for the average guy to pole along in these new untouched...

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More flats boat photos from 1982 -86

You can click on the photos to make them full size.These boats were built in the Florida Keys in Islamorada , and Key largo.Bert Sherbs 17 Mako RemakeBert's boat. Boy did they make ugly towers back then. Mako remake plug ,waiting for mold gelcoat to cure...

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