BillD
Admiral
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Hello ALL,
Thinking about my "virtual DE build" I've been giving some thought to the depth of the cockpit floor in the boat.
Ideally my build will have a deeper cockpit than a " traditional work/lobster" boat.
Other than raising the shear of the hull an a couple of inches I can drop the cockpit floor a couple of inches taking into consideration clearance for fuel tank tops and mufflers.
Ideally I'd like the "lowest cockpit floor the hull will take" without running the risk of having the scuppers flood the cockpit with a "heavily loaded boat".
I can't lower the cockpit floor below the water line of course
but I figure I can safely lower the floor and inch or two in "most DE hulls"
OK, so the question is....."how does a builder set the scupper heights on the hull" ?
Is the a "rule of thumb".
Here's a few pics of the "variations in heights".
btw, I took the liberty of posting boat pics from this forum. All beauties!
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Thinking about my "virtual DE build" I've been giving some thought to the depth of the cockpit floor in the boat.
Ideally my build will have a deeper cockpit than a " traditional work/lobster" boat.
Other than raising the shear of the hull an a couple of inches I can drop the cockpit floor a couple of inches taking into consideration clearance for fuel tank tops and mufflers.
Ideally I'd like the "lowest cockpit floor the hull will take" without running the risk of having the scuppers flood the cockpit with a "heavily loaded boat".
I can't lower the cockpit floor below the water line of course
OK, so the question is....."how does a builder set the scupper heights on the hull" ?
Is the a "rule of thumb".
Here's a few pics of the "variations in heights".
btw, I took the liberty of posting boat pics from this forum. All beauties!




