Crossing from Florida to The Bahamas in this small skiff boat conversion 

I want to see you build a party/sandbar skiff. A wide, flat deck area for sunning/dancing, someplace to store drinks that's accessible from waist-deep water, and an easy way on/off the boat, and capacity for at least 4 people, 18 - 20 feet with some sort of shade in the back. Maybe a skiff-toon?

Love seeing an old sailboat made into a wild skiff!

I so want to join you on one of these crossing adventures it looks like a blast... absolutely crazy but a total blast! 🤣

The only thing that would make your videos better is adding in some fishing in these great places you visit!

Why did I subscribe? I have made a few small boats and I also adapted a large waverunner into a tiny pond prowler. You are going far beyond what I have done. It inspires me to do more

Enjoy watching your builds bring boats back to life and boating adventures

Love seeing someone live their best life

You’re the ultimate Florida man Forrest. I wish had the vision you do to turn flip the sailboat into a great skiff.

I feel like I seen this video before is this a old upload I love it thanks for sharing again.😊😊

Ha ha ha. Now thats an adventure run right there. Great job guys!! 😅😅💯💪💪🇺🇸. Only in America!! Only one problem!! You forgot the fishing poles.. 😅😅😅😅

Another awesome video! Absolutely inspirational, and I loved the classic style of the sailboat build. Looks so cool!

I`ve had many boats in my life, I`ve always loved the water . I was on over a dozen cruises to the Caribbean . I enjoy watching you work on boats & cruise them. Thank You for sharing your video .

I love your channel bro! One recommendation: upgrade your camera to do 4k or atleast 1080 footage. Your content totally warrants a bad ass camera setup! Much love!

West Palm Beach native here Such a phenomenal video. Thank you so much

Great job on the conversion. I crossed from Miami to Bimini in a 20' center console skiff when I was younger (many, many years ago) and it was crazy fun. Thanks for the video.

I'm from Louisiana and you're slowly convincing me to make that trip. It looks fun.

Love the videos, tips and messages! I guess I am living vicariously through your chanel

The tip about the multiple layers of gloves is great!! Wish I thought of that a long time ago. Great video as always!

In Japan we have these type of boats but we add 1 foot higher around the inside of the boat so water does not splash into the inside of the boat.

Awesome! Love your videos Forest. Wish I had your guts to cross in a small boat like that.

finally back to enjoying your last video! You are living the life I think of all the time with giving new life to boats and other things. I have had boats of my own for over 40 years and quite a few were meant for destruction but I enjoyed them for years and passed them on to others that got something out of them.

I love the sense of adventure on this channel. No fluff just cool stuff

I'm surprised they work so well. As a sailing vessel. The speeds are so much slower. Now you're using it as a planing haul..amazing. who would have thunk it

What has been referred to as a "keel" does serve as a keel but is better known as a center board on this sailboat. Great video! Enjoyed it.

Love these videos man 🤙🏽

Wow. OK. That’s pretty crazy. I have crossed the gulf stream hundreds of times. Many in a 25’ outboard powered 7.5 hp. Daysailor. On the way back did you have a spare motor? No. A life raft? Maybe. An EPIRB? I certainly hope so. Wow. What an adventure. Well done.

This is my favorite of all the boats you've built.

I was contemplating on building my own small boat for lake and came across your channel. I quickly found most of the channels I enjoy are people all on your loop. Wayne for example. Cool boat stuff. Always ready for more. 👍

Well, you got me today... Been working on a 10 foot livingston so my wife and I can dick around in the Indian and banana rivers in Florida. Keep up with the fiberglass and body work. You're both informative and entertaining. Keep up the good work.

Came for the Honda in the preview clip, left a new sub and fan! Love the Flying Scot and your energy, thanks for bringing us along sir!

Just a bit of bright work and a chopped low windscreen and you've got yourself the next Bond villain boat. Also, the beanbag chair seems like an awesome way to cruise!

Deerfield beach native. New sub. After watching crossing, not s s scared to take the 20' deck boat out on calmer days. Thanks dude! Really enjoyed this trip and looking forward to more! Cheers mate!!

Thank you for the answer and now it makes sense.

I like seeing the builds plus ur cool af. Much love to ya brother from Maryland❤❤❤.

I subscribed because I love boating and also diy. So this channel is the best of both worlds. Plus, great vibes and positivity, even in the face of setbacks makes it even more inspiring.

Enjoy life !! You're an inspiration of living the dream cheap and simple

Forest has the best energy ever , love the vids cant wait to see more

glad you love our waters

Congrats first for making there and back safe .I hope one day I’ll get the balls to try this on my 18’ mako , you’re definitely my motivation to make it happen .

you're crazy but I can't look away. I love the boat conversions.

I subbed for your upbeat attitude and creativity with your projects. Love seeing people do things that aren't the norm. But you seem to have some great skills which you share along the way. As a beginner glassier, I have learned some good things from your vids. I like seeing all the things you manage to acheive on what seems to be a low budget, but you still put the effort in to do a good job. Here in new zealand I am loving your channel as it is. More small boats, more creativity, more motor stuff. I have been learning about hull design some more, so if you can share your thoughts on proes and cons re the different hulls you have experience with, that would greatly interest me.

love the fact you take small boats so far. maybe show more of the passages in the little boat.

Nice job Bosque

Dude, you're crazy but that looks so awesome. I hope to have an adventure like that someday. That journey is a little too far from here in Eastern NC. Topsail represent 😂😂

I took one of my 5 gallon can lids. Ran my fuel line in and made a sealed connection. That way, I just unscrew from one 5 gallon tank. Right onto the next.

Love boats, love seeing the work you do with them, and love seeing the voyages over to the Bahamas…especially since I live here in PSL and go out of Stuart pretty frequently, but still haven’t worked up the courage to run across, myself.

What a spot. My Sis lives on Cat Island, and the North shore has a similar canal cut through the reef and then harbours and cuts for miles. All abandoned. For now.

Wish I had a 1080p or even 4k camera to send you.. sigh... Love the video!

The master strikes again!!! Nice one dude!! I’m coming down to cross over with you soooon!

I am land landlocked in St. Louis. But was in the navy. Mis those oceans. Nice bit of memory bites here. Thanks.

Who knew Johnny Sinns could build a boat as well as be a Astronaut, Fireman, and Doctor

Grew up in port Salerno working on boats, im an old glass monke , love the channel and what you do! Keep up the great work

Nothing makes me happier than seeing my favorite channel has uploaded a video! We gotta do a crossing before winter comes! 🤙🛥️🌊

I thought A was top and B was bottom? It's still awesome work you're doing....

The Flying Scot, primary inter-club one design sailboat since 70s. Now its the Viper640. Love this boat, sad not sailing but, repurpose is a win. That flat bottom must have been a beating in crossing. Saw over your shoulder in the build a sailboat mast on roof top. Would love details if available. For another RU-vid channel in need on hurricane damage rebuild.

Love the channel Forest! You come along way from doing twin cam VTEC swaps 😂❤

dudes a legend

love the conversion and the adventures!

That was a awesome journey to do would love to take my wife on a adventure with me she always has been with me on my off-road journey and all of my boat journeys in the Gulf of Mexico. To take her to the Bahamas with me on a small boat would be awesome...

I subbed a long while ago now, and it was your builds that got me hooked. Your attitude towards work and the work itself, super cool.

Wow that Johnson really is a sea horse.

Forrest- well done mate !

Well done 👍

utterly wild in such a small skiff

Little red rides again. Awesome!

Just subscribed. I live in Australia love mucking around in boats and you give me some great ideas. Would love to come to your area one day. Thanks

Subscribed bc i like building little rafts and boats. Have a jet ski hull i have been converting to use on my lake.

Cool adventure

I had the same idea. I've seen those things on craigslist for pretty cheap. Maybe get a motor for under a 1000 bucks. Or maybe a brand new one for whatever. a 9 horse, something in that category.

Great video 💯

Trip back was nuts.

Any man crazy enough to take a 13 foot nothing skiff across the ocean with a 2 stroke carbureted outboard is crazy enough to get a sub from me.

Do some spear fishing video coverage. I wanted to see you swimming around some of the spots in this video.

Love the great builds!

That poor froggo in the key just went thru a damn dust storm

Epic video 💯

You’re nuts! Freaking awesome 😂

You have inspired me to take my daysailer across the gulfstream. Any recommendations on where I should head? only looking to fish, camp and be left alone. Awesome videos, you are a modern Shackleton.

My fantasy boat is a macgregor,with amenities and sail of course .. But what I really want to do is a capable pontoon shanty that can do the Caribbean, or,a decent pocket cruiser under 20ft

Love the vids!

I got hooked when the "Wild Skiff" video came out! Love that original waverunner idea. Did you pick up your spare motor or is it still hidden on a beach in the Bahamas??? Please remember to record when you are glossing, I'm counting on you for my fiberglassing education! I get to retire in a couple years and was thinking of getting two long skinny boats to build a pontoon boat out of and want to put twin motors on the corners with a throttle balance lever so with it in the middle the motors are equal but I could move it to the left or right to favor one motor to create differential thrust to improve maneuverability. Maybe you can build one to show me how! That Drysdale had me worried, don't do that again please.

Nice job 🤙

Epic!!!

And tomorrow, we are going to demonstrate that we actually can flutter kick their way to the bahamas using this pair of flippers scored from a yardsale for only 2 dollars!! Haha, be safe and party on Garth.

Amazing adventure. Wow. I will definitely not try this at home! Enjoyed the video! Did you have the backup motor with you on the return trip?

Need a small Sked just in front of the center board trunk.

I appreciate your inspiration and helpful advice. Where did you get your ocean going confidence from? Especially to take such a small skiff?

I would put a small pilothouse on it and a bed under the deck.

What was the cost for boat, motor and materials?

So freaking cool!

Dude I’ve always thought these hulls would make a great skiff. Too old to make one now 😢

Saw this video already 🤔🤔

I love it, but asking why you left so much of the keel box sticking up?

I'd like to do this and get some death's confirmation. Between Fort Pierce, Florida, and somewhere. Like free port and document, some deaths of the ocean between here and there.

You m f r’s are living! 😊

I’m waiting for a small (under 20’) shallow draft pilot house skiff. I think that would a unique build. I think something like that sunfish hull would be good to convert

Great adventures! thanks for sharing! One question: Do you go wide open throttle all the way to Bahamas?

🌴 well Forrest , so here I am watching you pull off another crazy build ( in 24 hrs ) it sure would have been easier to be able to flip that hull to glass that keel extraction , thought for sure you would of let a bit of keel to help make it track better but it seemed to work out great , kinda wounding what happened from the last video you were looking to do an electric boat ? Canoe build ? Then this build took its place , now you left this build back in the Bahamas, was it for someone there ? You could of at least brushed some gelcoat on the bottom and transom so it didn’t look ugly 😉. You were zipping right along out there ! Dude that was freak’n scary , and just like you said being out in the middle of the ocean in a small boat with big azz roller coaster waves is humbling bro you’ve gotta have one nut bigger than the other two just to do it , I’ve been to Freeport a couple times a long time ago, beautiful place , but expensive since everything is brought in on cruse ships and planes , good thing that motor held out , just bought a 1973 Evinrude 9.5 hp for $250 bucks a couple days ago haven’t had a chance to check it out yet it sat for two years in a shed the guy I bought from said it ran when he put it away . ( the all say that ! ) well this was another adventure so glad you took us with . So what’s next my friend ? We see a lot of small boat creations , you definitely hav3 the skills and know how , have you ever thought about doing say 🤔 a big. electric motor solar catamaran ( buying a hurricane damaged cat or big boat live aboard fixer upper ? ) that would definitely give you alot of video content . 🤔

I would love to take one of those trips - but I am on-call for work 24/7 365 and I am not a youngster anymore - I am currently setting up a workshop in my Garage to build me another boat - I miss the water really bad - I have lived in Dade Broward since I separated from the Navy in 67 - someday I might take a run up there to say hi - I used to hit the treasure beaches with a detector all the time in the 80's-90's the more build you do the more ideas I get - how hard is it to get one of those boats registered or do you have the title when you start on them? I titled a 10-footer in the early 80's with no trouble, but I understand you can't do that with an old abandoned boat anymore -

I got lost in the process, did you goto bahamas on the boat you built and came back on another one. I do drift off but not out to sea. What did you use to navigate, dont see much instrumentation. Love the boating lifestyle.