Jake11
Well-known member
Hello everyone,
So I started out with a little 10 footer but after reading a bunch on here and taking it for a test spin I decided to scrap that project and find a 14 footer. Well the wife and I just had our first child so needless to say.... Money's tight. I ended up trading my old Mathews bow and tree stand for a 93 alumacraft 1436. The boat was/is in rough shape. Had several leaky rivets and a small crack in the seem weld on the port side as well as about ten layers of antifouling bottom paint painted over corrosion on the underside. The boat came with a 77 Evinrude 6hp in decent shape and last minute the guy threw in another 6 around the same year and a 66 Evinrude 9.5 that wouldn't run.
My plans are to sand down and repaint the exterior, build front and rear low casting decks with storage and resurrect the old 9.5 for my main motor with the 6 as. Back up.
So far I have replaced leaking rivets with ss bolts, patched the small crack in seem until I can get it welded and sanded down and repainted from the waterline down. This project will be slow going but hopefully the end result is as good as some of those I have seen on here.
this is what it looked like when i got it.
after some sanding and self etching primer other than where the 5200 was still setting up.
didnt have time to take the whole bottom to bare aluminum so it looks like crap but i will be redoing this this winter so i just slapped some cheap paint on for now.
these are the three motors that came in the deal. I managed to get the white 6 and the 9.5 running pretty well with a carb cleaning and impeller replacement.
So I started out with a little 10 footer but after reading a bunch on here and taking it for a test spin I decided to scrap that project and find a 14 footer. Well the wife and I just had our first child so needless to say.... Money's tight. I ended up trading my old Mathews bow and tree stand for a 93 alumacraft 1436. The boat was/is in rough shape. Had several leaky rivets and a small crack in the seem weld on the port side as well as about ten layers of antifouling bottom paint painted over corrosion on the underside. The boat came with a 77 Evinrude 6hp in decent shape and last minute the guy threw in another 6 around the same year and a 66 Evinrude 9.5 that wouldn't run.
My plans are to sand down and repaint the exterior, build front and rear low casting decks with storage and resurrect the old 9.5 for my main motor with the 6 as. Back up.
So far I have replaced leaking rivets with ss bolts, patched the small crack in seem until I can get it welded and sanded down and repainted from the waterline down. This project will be slow going but hopefully the end result is as good as some of those I have seen on here.

this is what it looked like when i got it.

after some sanding and self etching primer other than where the 5200 was still setting up.

didnt have time to take the whole bottom to bare aluminum so it looks like crap but i will be redoing this this winter so i just slapped some cheap paint on for now.

these are the three motors that came in the deal. I managed to get the white 6 and the 9.5 running pretty well with a carb cleaning and impeller replacement.