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As far as replacing the transom, it was pretty east. Mine was totally rotted out, just had to remove top cap and dig out all the old wood and replace with 2 pieces of marine grade 3/4" plywood that we glued together. I'm not sure it was necessary, but we also linseed oil treated and fiberglass...

There is one battery up front under the large lid I use for the trolling motor. The other is in the back under the rear deck next to the cooler. They are both mounted in battery boxes secured to the deck with footman's loops and straps.

We took all the old foam out of the boat and replaced with swim noodles... approx. 100 noodles total. You can buy boxes of 50 at your local dollar store. It was pretty easy to get to the foam after stripping all the old wood decking You just have to keep breaking it up and digging out the...

Thanks everyone for the fine compliments... check out my latest build. It is almost complete.

Thanks Jayare. As far as taking out your decks and cross members, I don't think I would unless you plan to only fish small lakes and ponds. The cross members give a lot of support to the sidewalls. There is an angle riveted to the sides just under the plywood that the plywood screws down into...

Thanks Big Wave! It's amazing how much a project like this takes it out of you. I won't be doing another anytime soon... but that's what I said last time! I will post some more pics when it is 100% done.

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It has been a long winter and busy spring trying to finish up the Sea Nymph project and she is 90 percent done at this point, so I thought it was a good time to post some pictures of the progress. We decided to use Bass Cat 24 oz. marine carpet and really glad we did... it turned out nice and...

I didn't pre-clean with anything... Just used mothers aluminum mag wheel polish. It's actually referred to as a cleaner/polisher on the jar.

Thanks jmichael for the comments... it is aluminum, just polished with a power drill and Mother's Powerball. No elbow grease involved! It will take awhile though, even so. Took about 30 minutes on just the console and I plan to do the whole boat. The software is Revit Architecture by...

No the spring does nothing to hold it down and that is a concern. Right now going down the highway, that lid starts to lift at about 55 mph. I'm hoping when the bench seat is done it will block the air that gets into that center wind tunnel and help that situation. I've included some images I...

It's been awhile since any updates, so here are a few pics showing the progress. We ended up doing 5 coats of varnish on all the boards after several coats of linseed oil. It has taken forever waiting between coats and the weather is getting colder so things have really slowed to a crawl. Oh...

It has been several years since the old Starcraft project, so my buddy Dave and I were feeling long overdue for another one. We ran across a deal on this boat, motor and trailer... $200 bucks and just couldn't pass it up! As you can see she looks pretty rough right now, but this boat has a lot...

I've decided to end my posts with pictures of the boat actually being used. I realized that I had all these pics of the boat in my garage but not one of it out on the water. Some of these I can't believe I'm sharing with the world (you will figure out which one's I speak of), but wanted to...

Finally some pictures of the custom canopy that I hand-sewed over the winter. I have about half as many hours into the stinkin canopy as I did the rest of the boat, but it is well worth it to block the Kansas wind and sun. The pics show most of the canopy. I had the back sides off to make...

It's been awhile since my last visit to the site and happy to see so many new members and great boat projects. The winter has been too long for sure and I'm ready for spring and some time on the water. My latest project on the boat is a sun canopy and detachable enclosure. I will update the...

Thanks... '71 20 horse Johnson

Kingman Lake in Kingman, KS East of Pratt. Never been there, but have been wanting too!

Okay, finally some updates... it's not complete for sure, but it's getting close. I still need to do a little bit of carpeting, buy and install my radio, build the livewell and cooler, rod holders, lights, switch panels, etc., etc, etc. There are a few catfish blood stains on the carpet...

Thanks, it is a little wider than most I've seen. It measures 61 1/2 in. at the widest point of the gunnels.