Glass Bottom Boat
Build this glass-paneled gadabout or add glass windows to your present boat
- Category
- Utility Boats
- Designer
- William D. Jackson
- Published
- Boat Builder, Fall–Winter 1972, pp. 85–89
- Craft Print
- 306
A small all-purpose boat with glass panels in the bottom for watching the underwater world, ideal for scuba and skin divers scouting dive sites. The article also shows how to add glass windows to an existing flat-bottom boat.
Specifications
- Length
- 9 ft 5 in
- Beam
- 56 in
- Weight
- 95 lb
- Capacity
- 3–4 adults
- Construction
- Bent plywood panels over wooden frames; flat bottom with two glass windows; no building form
- Power
- 6 hp outboard; 8–12 mph
Downloads
Plan sheets 9
Tap a sheet to open the full-size scan. On a computer, right-click it and choose “Save image as” to keep a copy; on a phone, press and hold.
