Recent content by Bobs boat

best laid plans meet murphy's law... thought about prepping for paint, but their calling for rain tonight into next week... wanted to try my hand at patching the old transducer mount holes with a torch and aluminum rod, not as easy as the videos.... now the real problem...original plan was to...

Great weather this weekend to get the trailer done....slow going with my 5 and 8 year old grandsons assisting, but a lot of fun, and that's what it's all about anyway... lights tucked under the new mounts as planned, used plastic wire wrap from the harness to the tilt joint, soldered...

burning the carpet is genius ....I'm doing that... thank you

Been a couple of weeks now Easter, bad weather, etc. have stopped me from doing a whole lot...We did get the new rollers last week so those are assembled and ready to go...made some new bunks...assembled the winch ( going to change that whole assembly around but want to see the boat back on the...

Paint job looks great....thinking of doing the same 2 tone on my project, but red on top....what did you use for paint???

nice looking boat looking at other boats / trailers, I'm thinking of reworking the whole winch support...in hind sight I should have figured this out before we took the boat off, we also have a fold up jack and spare tire we want to fit up there.

looking at the pics I realized that I may have to set the boat back a little on the trailer so I can open the liftgate on the jeep... do I extend the bunks then ??? will this cause an issue landing the boat???

weekend update: weather was decent so I got the rest of the trailer striped down, after 40 some years in and out of the water it was easier to break every other bolt...wire brushed, ground, or sanded all the fitting...got them primed , and painted...I didn't like the lights mounted to a flimsy L...

they just hang off the brace fastened with 2-#10 and 1- 1/4" bolt...you may have to clamp the boat together to get the center bench out ,and measure how much it springs out...it should look like this

First off I would like to thank everyone here for sharing, your posts have not only been informative, but they have also given me a lot of ideas. So late last summer I picked up a 14' mirrocraft on a dilly tilt trailer (with a blown bearing), an Evinrude 9.9 (with a bad impeller ), a...