Recent content by Leelatt

Thanks! Everything has their own switches. If you look at the pictures showing the mid section of the boat with the side boxes, you'll see I have 2 switch panels. The panel closest to the front without the AC outlet controls: navigation lights, exterior night lights, interior night lights...

Got the old paint off and out of every nook and cranny. Primed, and re-painted. Also installed the interior lights and external lights, and they are bright! After the first round of sand blasting: Other side: even though some spots look rough, everything was smooth and even. Right before...

That's exactly what I was thinking of Smackdaddy, I ordered a set of white and a set of UV for courtesy lights inside the boat and then night fishing lights on the outside, figured I'd order red and green if they came out nice. But after seeing yours I think I'm just gonna go ahead and order...

SO I haven't been on here in a long time and it's mainly due to my boat and problems with it. Hurricane sandy damaged the boat and I had to redo more than half of it. About a month after I finished redoing all the work, the boat was damaged yet again in a bad storm. We had over a week of rain...

I just drilled out the rivets with a 3/16" bit, then used wood screws to mount it to the wood.

Don't rush into it is the best advice I can give you. I spent 2 months planning every detail of my boat, must have measured everything a few dozen times just to be as sure as possible.

finally got it out on the water with the gas motor but kept having issues with it all day. didn't take any pictures as it was raining most of the day, will try to when I get her out again on june 1st

Not good unfortunately, didn't catch a thing and got caught in some small showers. Had plenty of bites with the Canadian night crawlers, but couldn't hook a single fish, not sure if they were just nibbling on it, or if it was small fish that the hooks were too big for. Was using size 4 hooks...

thanks, I'll be sure to hose it down afterwards.

ah gotcha. there's barely any flex if I stand on that portion but I think that's just because of the ply wood. I was going to run a bar along the gunwale when I designed it, however when I laid the plywood on it for a test fit and I walked around on it, that portion didn't flex so I left that...

I'm taking my boat out onto the Raritan river this weekend and I'm curious about how bad it would be for my 80# terrova as it's brackish water and the terrova is designed for fresh water. I'm not sure if it would be very detrimental to the motor or only minor as it's not as salty as sea water...

Anyone familiar with the water in this area? I'm taking the boat there saturday, launching from the boat ramp at Donaldson park, haven't fished it yet, hoping to get some tips, will update this post saturday evening with any catches or lack there of.

Ben, which portion? are you talking about the corner braces on the transom of the boat?

not at all. I have an 80# minn kota terrova on the bow. It seems a bit overkill but most places near me are electric only and I figure I'm gonna upgrade to a larger boat eventually. it moves the boat pretty fast, I can get in and out of places easily. On the transom I have a 55# minn kota...

Bryan, no stability issues, low transom problem was due to some water logged foam. Ply wood is level from mid bench to front bench, if you look at the framework picture you can see how I have it running from bench to bench. Good luck on your build, I plan to update this thread soon