14 hi-laker pilothouse

[David Swingler]

OK so I have been restoring a 14 foot hi laker speedboat. Just the other day I got a second 14 hi laker free... hence it's going to be a lot of work, but I have experience and know more or less what I'm getting into. Once it's done I am thinking about putting a small pilothouse on it like a 14 cdory. What do people think?

 

[David Swingler]

Here's the boat:

 

[kapnD]

Be very careful when adding superstructure to any boat that small, it will be very sensitive to additional weight and windage.

 

[ondarvr]

Some of those tended to bow steer radically in some conditions, as in people being ejected from the boat, this would probably make that tendency worse.

 

[Will Gilmore]

I saw a lot of these little fishing boats on the coast of Scotland. They seemed pretty seaworthy.

Coastliner 14 | Orkney Boats https://www.orkneyboats.com/our-range/coastliner-14
They weren't all Orkney boats. Probably not most of them. A lot of them looked home built.

Maybe put a battery, or water tank or fuel tank in the bilge. You could consider a little weighted stub-keel.

Any way you decide to go about it, test her in safe waters.

-Will

 

[David Swingler]

Will do, thanks for the ideas!