Marc
New member
Hey everyone I have been lurking here for about a year getting ideas and learning from everyones mistakes and triumphs. I finally found a boat to mod it is a 1979 (make unknown hopefully someone here can help with that) 16' V bottom on a trailer $400 canadian took it home. Let the fun and headaches begin I have been working on it for about a month now trying to get it fishable. The guy I bought it from said "it didn't leak" (I was very skeptical but the price was right so I did not care).
First thing on the list was to get it sea worthy once it was in the back yard. I filled it to the water line with water and low and behold ONLY 18 rivets leaked. Kinda expected some leaks but 18. Out of the 18 ONLY 7 poured water the rest where drips or sweats. I'm glad I have a friend that is a trailer mechanic who helped me out with the blinded rivets (drill/replace bad ones and just bucked the ones that weren't to bad) good news was that there was no cracks in the aluminum. I have to figure out how to post pic's up here to show everyone the progress. If anyone has and alternate way of posting pic's from a MAC would be greatly appreciated
I got it here are some pics of my new to me boat let me know what you think (anyone one know the make???)
So now that I got it sea worthy it was time to lay out the floor and pitching deck.
But first the guy that had it before me striped off the front aluminum deck and took off the tops of the benches. I had to cut out the back aluminum deck because this was a side console with controls and a pulley system for steering. I have a 8 hp 1996 merc tiller so no need for the stern aluminum cover heres a pic
here was my layout for the pitching deck battery hatch at the bow, cooler for livewell, tackle bag, glove box (hopefully water tight) at the rear of the deck then lower floor aft to the stern
Here is a pic of most of the framing done its supported by aluminum angle pieces on the port and starboard sides blind riveted through the hull the cross pieces are bolted to the aluminum other supports go down to bottom of the boat (forget what you call them)
I'll have to get more pics of the framing once I pull the deck back off
but here is were it sits now deck is 95% done I have to pull the deck off and pressure wash the inside then deck goes back on and work starts on the transom
First thing on the list was to get it sea worthy once it was in the back yard. I filled it to the water line with water and low and behold ONLY 18 rivets leaked. Kinda expected some leaks but 18. Out of the 18 ONLY 7 poured water the rest where drips or sweats. I'm glad I have a friend that is a trailer mechanic who helped me out with the blinded rivets (drill/replace bad ones and just bucked the ones that weren't to bad) good news was that there was no cracks in the aluminum. I have to figure out how to post pic's up here to show everyone the progress. If anyone has and alternate way of posting pic's from a MAC would be greatly appreciated
I got it here are some pics of my new to me boat let me know what you think (anyone one know the make???)
So now that I got it sea worthy it was time to lay out the floor and pitching deck.
But first the guy that had it before me striped off the front aluminum deck and took off the tops of the benches. I had to cut out the back aluminum deck because this was a side console with controls and a pulley system for steering. I have a 8 hp 1996 merc tiller so no need for the stern aluminum cover heres a pic
here was my layout for the pitching deck battery hatch at the bow, cooler for livewell, tackle bag, glove box (hopefully water tight) at the rear of the deck then lower floor aft to the stern
Here is a pic of most of the framing done its supported by aluminum angle pieces on the port and starboard sides blind riveted through the hull the cross pieces are bolted to the aluminum other supports go down to bottom of the boat (forget what you call them)
I'll have to get more pics of the framing once I pull the deck back off
but here is were it sits now deck is 95% done I have to pull the deck off and pressure wash the inside then deck goes back on and work starts on the transom
