Monthly Archives: June, 2020

Beryllium 18.9 skiff videos

Here’s some videos from the past few days. The first one with the 115 hp merc is the build from Hayaari Marine in Abu Dhabi that is in production there now. Wassim in the video is doing 46 mph. The other videos is my build when we wet tested at a small fresh water lake …

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Beryllium 19’ tastes water today

Eric Kimes, Capt. Rob Alexander and I launched my Beryllium build today on a small fresh water lake in NC. She runs better than I could have hoped for. Rob is very happy. Here some scenes from today.

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Beryllium 19’ , Lithium 18’ , HB Marquesa 18’

Here’s some pictures of 3 of my designs over time. The Marquesa is my design I did as the final project at HB before I left the company. Eric Kimes owns it and the Lithium skiff. His plan is to sell it and build a Beryllium 19 in wood strip core like he did with …

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Just an observation…

Hal Chittum, Flip Pallot, and I started Hells Bay Boatworks together in 1997. One of our goals was to build and sell pure flats fishing skiffs designed and created to get across bays and into ” the fishes home”, as Flip would say. We were not about stylized interiors. This meant our skiffs had to …

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