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. We use 4 layers, 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!!!