You just need floatation from balloon tires. http://www.wheeleez.com/ This is just one of the companies that handle them. I used a single replacement dock wheel from amazon which was much cheaper- for a toon many years ago and saved a lot of weight over two single something like a ball barrow http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://toolmonger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/nubarro-xl-pro.jpg&imgrefurl=http://toolmonger.com/2009/04/30/the-nubarro-the-ballbarrow-reincarnated/&h=327&w=450&sz=33&tbnid=n7fH9RcM88e9iM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=125&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dball%2Bbarrow%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=ball+barrow&docid=jMbu-DYMm_POwM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=be62TpXuCYiGsgLayq2EDA&ved=0CF4Q9QEwBg&dur=1480. You can also use "duelies" on each side for even softer mud or heavier weights.

porta

I have the same exact boat and I just wrap a rope around my waist and pull the boat out of the water. I keep a cheap pair of waterproof boots in the truck to keep my feet out of the mud. I have a 5hp Briggs and Stratton outboard on the back and 30lb trolling motor on the front. I had a dolly with small wheels but found it hard to pull the boat on uneven terrain. Used the big bicycle wheels and it pulls much better now.

Reggie

i made a cart with the same kinda wheels you'd use on a hand truck. Made a axle for it by welding bolts into a piece of angle iron, bolted the axle to a 2x4 covered with outdoor carpet. works real good so far but there is really only one place I fish that I have much call to use it and it isn't a far or real rough haul. Most every place else I fish I launch from the boat ramp.

Can you show a picture of your wheel and axle?

yeah. I'll take one tonight and get it posted up by tomorrow.

Thanks

Sorry it took so long, bad1. I feel like I've been at work more this week than I have been anywhere else.

Here is the axle with wheels attached before I mounted it to the bunk board which is basically just a 2x4 covered in outdoor carpet slightly shorter than the axle and mounted to the axle with 3 bolts.



Here is a close up of where I welded the bolts into the angle iron to make the axle.

Awesomed. How much do you charge to weld another like that?
Thanks again,
Ron

how long do you need the axle to be?

I think 2 axles. 2 feet long

needed something to stabilize the stern with the trolling motor mounted on the front of the boat. The back end tended to wing around whenever I slowed down. Also the boat fish-tailed left & right while under power. When wifey put an oar out the back of the boat, it helped stabilize and allow the boat to travel in a straight line. Decided to fabricate a bolt-on rudder. Bought a stern mount on eBay and added a 1" dowel plus a rudder cut from plywood.

Dave u floating a buster boat now?

mine is a Pelican Predator.

Update*** had the Predator out several times at Lake Fork. Have had some success catching fish. You should see the looks I get from the fishermen in $30k bassboats when I pull up near them on a lake point! LOL!

After I peeled the old bedliner off the bottom, I discovered two scrape-holes that went through the outer skin, allowing the boat to take on some water between the outer and inner liner. A couple of small pieces of fiberglass cloth and resin fixed that problem easily.

The boat is comfortable to fish from, and manuevers well with a 55# thrust Minn Kota moror mounted on the front. I have to sit in the back for balance, but the TM has a long cord and is foot operated/ powerdrive, so no problem.

The plywood rudder mounted with a trolling motor backet on the transom works absolutely great! The boat tracks straight and true. Drift fishing works well too because with the rudder on back and the TM on front, the boat remains oriented perpendicular to the wind while drifting with the wind.

But am finding it a lot of work pulling the boat out of the water. I launch in a little creek with muddy banks. The cart in the photo above works great as long as on hard, level ground. Wheels are too small and too close together for the mud, so I off-load the boat to the ground when near the water, and then just shove it the last 5-10 feet to the water. At the end of the day I can't get close enough to shore without getting my feet in the mud. Then i have to pull it up on the bank with a rope until it's on dry, hard ground, ususally a distance of 5-10 feet. Haven't tried a come-along, yet, because the lake is so low it is still 100 feet away from the nearest tree and the adjacent ground is hard on top but mushy just below the surface.

First time out the wife caught a 7lb bass; the 2nd time out I caught a 6 lb. bass, shaped like a basketball! More updates on this little bathtub boat to come...

thats cool