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Plans to build the 20' Tortuga Mullet Skiff

Tortuga Mullet Skiff

A Customer asked if I could scale one of these mullet skiffs down to a 20 footer, and so, here's the Tortuga. It features the classic Mullet Skiff lines in an easily trailerable size. This would be the perfect fishing boat for those who rarely head out overnight, but want a tough, solid boat that is surprisingly economical when it comes to power. A 75 HP 4 stroke engine is all you'd ever need for most sea conditions. The hull is constructed of standard lumber yard materials and is far easier to build than most of the hulls you see on designer's web pages.

Free Study Plans and Bill of Materials for the Tortuga Mullet Skiff

Our study plans are two of the actual construction drawings. They're not enough information for you to build the boat, but they do give you the overall boat size, shape and construction methods. This is a pdf file readable with the free Adobe Acrobat pdf file reader.

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Construction Plans for 20' Tortuga - English Only
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About Mullet Skiffs

Mullet skiffs were originally developed for the Florida Mullet fishery in the early 1900s to be able to carry a load while operating in shoal water. They were never modernized to adapt to new materials until now. These hulls feature a dory style hull, with a vee entry. This makes it stable, capable in rough seas, easily driven with minimal power - just about everything a real sea dog likes in a boat. They'll get up and move, too, without too much power, though not a modern high speed planing hull, as they were developed for teh low power, heavy and unreliable gas engines of a century ago.

My take on these sturdy cruising hulls are constructed of standard milled construction lumber, available at any lumber yard, covered with ply, then fiberglassed over with epoxy resin to make a very tough, commercial grade hull, ready for just about anything. While not as easy to build as a dory, they're well within the capabilities of the amateur wood worker, even a first time boat builder.