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Pretty spiffy for sure, have you put it in the water yet? How fast does it run?
 
[url=https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=334533#p334533 said:
surfman » Today, 12:23[/url]"]Pretty spiffy for sure, have you put it in the water yet? How fast does it run?

Just finishing things up and the weather turned to mess, haven't had a decent weekend to make a splash. No idea on the speed, but I really just have cruising around in mind so as long as it runs as it should, I'm really not worried about a super fast top speed, but I'll be sure to post it once I make the test run.
 
[url=https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=334539#p334539 said:
Country Dave » Today, 14:06[/url]"]Wow I just happen upon this thread,

I'm really glad I did, that thing is beautiful....................................... =D>

Thanks, been two years of work, a labor of love.
 
[url=https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=334571#p334571 said:
m casey stock » 15 Nov 2013, 23:25[/url]"]
[url=https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=334539#p334539 said:
Country Dave » Today, 14:06[/url]"]Wow I just happen upon this thread,

I'm really glad I did, that thing is beautiful....................................... =D>

Thanks, been two years of work, a labor of love.


Understood.................................................. :mrgreen:

December 4th will be the one year anniversary of my first post of my Lowe rebuild thread, also a labor of love........................ :mrgreen:
 
I'm having withdrawals LOL not much going on now that the weather has changed, but I am still piddling. Here are a few pictures of my latest progress.

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Carpet glued down on center floor section and everything mounted in place in the rear (fuel, battery, and a battery powered paddle if the need arises :wink: )
 
I was waiting to post the finishing touches of my interior along with the "SPLASH" but I can't seem to get the timing right for the splash, so I decided to go ahead and post the interior pictures and hopefully the splash won't be too far behind.

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CMOS said:
Simply magnificent!

Well, how does she drive!?

CMOS

She drives great. It still amazes me how small the boat looks from the outside but how roomy it feels when sitting inside. I turned on the GPS speedometer app. on my phone (checked it against my vehicle speedometer and my Garmin and its spot on compared to those) and got a reading of 27 MPH before the Wifie started acting nervous. The throttle was wide open but the lake had a chop to it and it had just reached the 27 MPH when I backed off. That's actually pretty good for a little 25hp but I think 30MPH is doable on a calm day and maybe even faster if I played with the trim a bit. I built this as a little up river cruiser so I'm not really worried about trying to squeeze max MPH out of it. The old cable and pulley steering also did just fine. I figured it would have some slop to it, but that was not the case, when I turned the wheel, it turned. The stationary motor caused me to not be able to get as close to the bank as I wanted, I'm used to power tilt, so I may be looking into adding that at some point.
 

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