What is it? Get ready to welcome a solar electric ‘Shanty’ boat type with low horsepower that is beachable, has full headroom, a large head, and opening windows.

Length 22. -.5″              Beam 8′-4″       Draft  1′ -6″        Displacement 3375 lbs.          Dry Weight  2575 lbs.

Available today – a one page study plan with an accommodation view, an exterior profile, and a stern/bow view.

We’ve produced study plans for the Honker H.B. 20 and the Mud Dauber 22 H.B and now we add the Hideaway 22. She continues along these lines and yet is quite different with the solar/electric low power possibilities.

Study Plans available here

Length: 20 feet 1 inch       Draft: 12.5″      Trailering weight: 2,100 lbs.

Beam: 8′ 6″                      Displacement: 2,982 lbs.

Sam had a request from a man in Michigan for a small and very affordable boat he and his wife could use to cruise the Great Loop focusing on the segments that appealed to them. Sam remembered how the Honker 18 utility pram had served as a shop skiff, exploration and photo shoot boat, fishing platform and even duck hunting boat. Plenty of room  aboard for him, his two sons, and the family dog to set off on great adventures. The Honker provided a very stable and safe platform on the water. Hmmm! The Millie Hill is a great Shanty Boat, but not so great for scooting around because of her barge like hull.

This new cross breed allows getting on the water in a towable small boat with the interior of a much larger boat. A real savings in transportation and maintenance! She boasts 6 foot 3 inch headroom, a proper galley, enclosed head, dinette/double berth and a settee across for naps and an occasional guest. A 60 HP high thrust outboard for displacement speeds and economy or 115 HP for  boogying down the waterway at 20 knots.

Downloadable Study Plans are available here.

What do you think? Let us know.

Length Overall :   21′ – 10.5″  — 6.68 m      Beam:   8′ – 2.75″ — 2.51 m      Draft:  10.75″ — 2.51 m      Draft O.B. down:      2′ – 3″ — 0.69 m      Displacement:   3300 lbs. — 1496kg

Study Plans here.

This build provides a shallow draft twin outboard cruiser perfect for the Great Loop or Europe’s canals or any inland waterway;

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We’ve had some fun with this one.  What a great length for a houseboat!  We’re providing this concept drawing hoping someone will be excited enough imagining with it to commission Sam to complete full construction plans for this very swift and sleek houseboat.

A side note from someone who lived in houseboats for a year of his life.  He said a hull with some v on the bottom and curves up to the bow transom create a much gentler motion for sleeping if you’re in an area where the waters aren’t calm all the time.  He had spent a lot of time living on a flat bottomed houseboat and felt a boat like the Lingcod 29 would be a wonderful solution not just to faster travel, but also for that gentle rock yourself to sleep motion this type of hull allows.

The Lingcod 29 Houseboat is available as study plans.