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After bodyworking and painting the outside of the hull we ****** it back on the trailer, mocked up the motor, and my brother started fitting the floor in 3/4" marine plywood. Originally the livewell doubled as the seat base for the captain's seat and a passenger seat. We thought that looked...

Ugly for sure, we contemplated scrapping it before we got deep into it. I need to get the original pics of the boat from my brother as it was when we picked it up.

After plenty of power washing, scrubbing, and removing old hardware and fixtures, we looked at Coosa Board and marine plywood for the transom but my brother being the welder/machinist/fabricator opted to fabricate a transom out of aluminum tube that would outlast the rest of the boat. The...

Hello all, I just reclaimed my account after being absent since 2009. College, career, marriage, house, and two kids later, I finally returned to my love of boating with the massive project I'll be sharing here. Bear with me as I have almost 200 photos which I'll be sharing the best of and...

Oh geeze... I didn't think about electric only lakes! In that case, the trolling motors would be better than rowing :lol:

The tent idea - awesome! The sailboat idea - probably not functional. The dual electric trolling motors - #-o just get a gas outboard for crying out loud!

That is a little expensive! Browse around for some local machine shops. My dad is an inspector at a machine shop and that's my connection for aluminum. They get it in bulk so it's cheap, and they often have a lot of excess on hand. You can also ask if you can buy some if they have it in...

Once you chisel out the rivets and get the new wood cut out and routered, countersink the holes, put a gob of silicone in and a little around them, and cap each hole with a washer, and shove the bolts through. You get a perfect watertight seal around the washers, in the holes, and around the...

I don't think the Torino in the movie was a real 428SCJ because if it was, it'd have the shaker scoop on it

Yeah Eastwood and the Barber reminds me so much of my dad and my uncle... I've heard the "cheap pollack" insult way before I saw the movie!

Shweeet! :twisted:

I saw that video... but I've never caught a perch big enough to keep... they're all 4" long #-o

Holy crap that looks fun!

Man I love the Raptors - I took a bored, stroked, and cammed 660 Raptor for a ride :P I will never forget it. Then after I got off, my uncle, half-way drunk, gets on, dumps the clutch, and digs the sissy bar and muffler into the ground, stalling it. He stands the quad up vertically, and he's...

That definitely sounds like some of the goofy crap that would happen up here in Michigan! My mom got a ticket for chucking a banana peel out her window on a dirt road, but yet my uncle's been driving without a license for 12 years and hasn't gotten caught... go figure :shock:

You raced bikes in Michigan? :shock: wow there's like five months of good weather and it's all downhill after that lol! I mean a sub-forum more for boat racing and fast tinnies and such. Hey! New idea for a competition - fastest rowboat :lol:

Haha two more things I've never done - go fly fishing and fish on the ocean! I have kayaked and fished once in a river here in Michigan, and I got myself a big carp on the line. It took off down river and nearly rolled me over! I think it was a combination of being a cheap kayak, and my...

Holy crap - that's cheap for a quart!

I just saw Gran Torino yesterday - my top pick of the year! Clint reminds me of a lot of my relatives!

I know I've been posting on this site for at most a week, but it's apparent that there's quite a bit of interest in racing and going fast. I think it'd be cool to see a sub-forum for those kind of things!