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Thanks, I'll have to take it apart and see.

Hey guys. last year I restored my 67 16' jon boat only to finish towards the end of the season. Only had the opportunity to take her out twice. On the last trip the motor shifted fine until my buddy and I got up river. We shut our boats off to hang out and started them back up to head back down...

It's a great trolling motor. Great price. I have the same one and thought I scored a deal at $350 lol. Great find.

Looks good to me.

Looks good. I'd leave that front piece off or lower it so it's a safer standing area.

Got her painted today. I'll post more pics tomorrow. Also got the trailer stripped down to be redone.

Samples came in a couple of weeks ago from them. Way better than Lowe's and Homedepot and only a couple cents more per sq. Foot for carpet. About to place my order soon. Just trying to figure out how much I'll need.

Looks pretty cool. New ideas are what makes things change for the better. I'd try one out.

Did a little more prep prior to SteelFlexing. Just don't want to have to drill through the hull once its painted. Installed a bilge outlet hole, front bow eye and once I get the other 2 eye's in today. I'll be drilling the holes for them on the transom.

Sure, I'll look it up. I bought some 3M 5200 that I was going to use on them. But if that's better. I'll try to use the best. Just want it done right from the start.

Some leak tests Bottom cracks reinforced from the inside as well. The outside of one crack. You can also see where we added 2 pieces to the bottom and a large piece to the bow to strengthen it for the new bow eye. Shouldn't pull through ever again.

Got her back from the welder this past Saturday. So we are all caught up to today. Just waiting on some new Stainless Steel bow eye to be used as stern hooks instead of putting those old cast handles back on. Might not be the prettiest job but its strong. Still have some cleaning up to do to...

Getting a little burnt wrking on this thing. Had to crack out the EZ-up and beach umbrella lol. The old seat removed came in handy for the last bit of sanding on the sides. Now she is all loaded up and ready to head to the welder.

This is the attempt at sanding first which didn't go over well. So I moved onto Aircraft Remover. This ate the rubber coating off and stopped at the layer of resin. :x So that's when I got the flapper sanding disk out on the grinder. Worked like a charm. You can see the layer of...

And on..... to the bottom of the boat for sanding/grinding. The sides and the transom were easy. That part all the prior owners must've sanded prior to painting. Now for the bottom, I don't think its ever been sanded. I had to end up using a sanding flapping disk on my grinder to get through it...

Thanks for the offer. Great site and great builds from everyone.

Thanks, I actually just got the boat back from the welder this past Saturday. Just still trying to re-size all these pics so everyone can see a running time line. Yours should be bullet proof if you are going that route.

Stickers and Maine trailer tag came in the mail last week. Want all that here for when the boat is finally done. Wanna get this thing in the water as soon as I can.

Here are some of the goodies. This has all came in over the past few weeks after getting the boat and some of it came from the trip back after getting the boat. The other half wanted to make a pit stop at Bass Pro on the way home so she could pic the color of the seats "She" wanted in it lol...

All in and used a clamp to hold it in place while I drill the new holes through for all Stainless Steel hardware. Don't want any corrosion going on anymore with this thing.