Build Your Own PVC Johnboat for minimal cost and time.

Step 2 Materails and Tools

Materials Used:
-3/4th Inch PVC piping about 130 feet of it. (10 ft segments)
-10 90Degree Angles Connectors
-Just under 50 T connectors (I think 48?)
-6 + connectors
-3 45Degree Angle Connectors
-PVC primer and cement
-200 Feet of rope (we used aprox. 170 feet of it)
-Styrofoam Insulation found with the insulation in your hardware store (there are blue and pink ones)
-3/8' sheet of plywood
-12x16 foot Tarp HEAVY DUTY
"DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH A REGULAR TARP!"

We tested a regular tarp and it had a few small trickles of water coming in. The heavy duty tarp worked perfectly!

Motor mount items
-Hose Clamps (worm-gear Clamps)
-Small rubber to put between clamp and pipe.
-2x6x6 Piece of lumber (aprox)

And the fun stuff
-Trolling motor (we got a 55lb thrust motor on sale for 150, you can get the 30-40lb thrust for about 100)
-Deep Cycle Battery (Any 12 volt full size battery will work)

This project does not require many tools what we used were as follows
-Hack Saw (cutting the pipe and some of the wood)
-scissor (to cut the tarp to fit)
-Grommet Installation kitGrommet Installation kit (Adding Eyelits to the tarp for the rope holes)
-Hammer to use installing grommets
-Sharpie to make marks

Aprox cost:
$15 - 130 feet of 3/4th tubing
$4 - 90 angle connectors
$11 - T connectors
$8 - + connectors
$2 -45 angle connectors
$5 - primer and cement for pvc
$8 - rope
$10- styrofoam
$10 - plywood
$22 - tarp
$95.00

Comments

[stumppuller71]

Hi there, I love the boat and I'm considering building one but I have an issue with the prices you list. You say you bought 130 feet of 3/4 inch pvc tubing for only 15 dollars. I live in Canada and all but a 10' piece of 3/4 inch pvc tubing goes for $9.59 at home depot. So I would need 13 of these correct? That would put the total JUST for the pvc at @ $130. Am i missing something or do you know a wicked place to get pvc tubing cheap? Please let me know where you bought your materials ok? Thanks

[SIRJAMES09]

Please do not take this the wrong way, but PVC in Canada is twice the cost of what it is in America...the costs he stated are the norm for America, but in Canada, the costs are outrageous for everything.

[zmatt]

I'm not sure why your PVC is so expensive, but its always cheap in the us.

[SIRJAMES09]

Maybe because we are the biggest supplier in the world for PVC & CPVC & most any other plastic pipe.

[danray35e]

try buying it in usa. I priced 1" pvc at $2.36 for a ten foot stick at lowes yesterday

[CybergothiChe]

yo yo stumppuller! I am here in the great land of Oz, and by the by, today is our national day (Australia Day), but yes, I found Zmatts prices for PVC pipe quite ridiculous, as here in Oz my 20mm PVC pipe cost around $2 - $3 a metre, leading to an ultimate cost of around about $150 - $200, then add another $100 for the T connectors, and the entire boat cost around $500 australian dollars, I should have just bought a aluminium (NOTE CORRECT SPELLING! alumin > I < um) dingy. Ahhhh well, you live and you learn.......or at least, you live.

[bassmasta1010]

you know what you just need to..............i'll be nice and quit talking now

[SIRJAMES09]

LOL

[cuchulain92]

aluminum is on the periodic table, al-you-min-yum isn't... heh...

[CybergothiChe]

ahhhh....you see that is an interesting concept...the original spelling of aluminium was indeed aluminum, but that spelling was changed, for some reason, and now (in a similar vein to *F and *C (Fareinheit and Celsius) and Metric (GO METRIC GO METRIC GO GO GO METRIC!) and Imperial) the United States is one of the few places left in the world that still uses the spelling aluminum...so you could say that both spellings, aluminium and aluminum are indeed correct, but one is more correct than the other...all depending on where you are on this orb of rock we call the Earth (and why Earth, we got ripped off in the planet naming stakes, you've got Jupiter, Mars, Venus, etc, and what do we get? Earth. I mean, we were naming the planets, so wht did we not give our planet a funky name, like, I don't know, Cool, Awesome, The Funky Third Planet? It would be cool, when we finally meet the aliens that we all know are out there, they would be like, "we are from the planet Nebulon Alpha" and we would be all like "Hey dudes, we're from the planet Awesome, come have a beer!" and the aliens would be all like "Do you think you could make that a light beer, we have to drive later, and you know how those hyperspace expressways are, damn Neptunions, always going warp 3 in the warp 9 lane" and then we would be all like, "yeah man, I'll get you a light beer, here's a Bud Lite" and we would crack the top off and give it to the aliens and they would drink their light beer and then be all like "OK, we have to go now, got to beat rush hour on the hyperspace expressway. It's been fun, you guys, let's all meet up for a beer another time, dudes. Bye!" And then the aliens would leave, travelling on the hyperspace expressway, back to their home planet of Nebulon Alpha. But no, our planet is called Earth...lame.) Aiiiiiiight! Laters...

[cool not lame]

cant u just use oars? if u can how do make space for the ruder?

[dwipoop]

 Where did you buy the tarp?

[zmatt]

Home depot

[joshhoyte]

what are the dimensions of the boat?