Construction
& Safety
Construction
Duck
hunters by nature are hard on their equipment. We build our boats to
stand up to those demands. Our boats are constructed of all hand-laid fiberglass (no chop guns for us). We use 4 layers of
HAND-laid fiberglass, for a very heavy duty construction. Stand on the
deck, jump down from the dock. Don’t worry about it. Our boats are
built to take it.
From the
30 years of boat building experience of previous owner Don Warren, to the high
performance fiberglass airplane construction experience of
Safety
Your
safety is our #1 concern.
It all
starts with our hull design. Over the past 150 years, there has been
little change in the hull shape of these duckboats
for one reason: It works! You won’t find a more stable sneak boat.
The round displacement hull gives great stability in the roughest water.
During testing of these boats, we literally stood on the side of the deck and
jumped up and down and could not flip it over!
Coast Guard Testing
The second
aspect of safety is the capacity, flotation, and US Coast Guard approval.
This is the biggest improvement we made since taking over the company from Don
Warren in 2007. We have added flotation so the boat floats level when
swamped, followed all Coast Guard specs for construction capacity and motor
restriction, worked closely with the US Coast Guard, and even submitted our
boats for voluntary testing.
The first
phase of the coast guard testing is the capacity testing. In this test, the boat is floated in a tank
and filled with 5 times the weight it is rated for. For example, our 12’ boat was filled with
1,500 POUNDS OF IRON and the 14’ boat was filled with 2,500 POUNDS OF IRON and
both passed with flying colors!
The second
phase of Coast Guard testing is the swamped flotation test. This is to test the foam flotation in the
event that the boat becomes filled with water.
In this test the boat is loaded with enough weight to simulate the
persons, motor, and gear that it’s rated for.
Then holes are drilled in the deck to let any trapped air out, and the
boat is filled with water. The boat must
float level for 18 hours. Our boats
excelled in this test, and actually popped up out of the water, shooting the
water out through the drain hole!
In order
to show the water being pushed out through the drain hole,
the Coast Guard filled the boat with red dye so the water could be seen being
pushed out of the drain.
At Classic Barnegat
Sneakboxes, we will take no shortcuts and cut no corners when it comes to your
safety!!!