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Jon and V Boat Conversions & Modifications
Brand new here - 14' Texas Maid (Lots of pics!)
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<blockquote data-quote="Rat" data-source="post: 343920" data-attributes="member: 1914"><p>Sweet hull! Love those old Texas Maid hulls. </p><p></p><p>For the transom just trace the outside of the transom on a piece of cardboard or plastiboard. Trim it until it fits on the inside of the transom and then transfer that to your wood. You will probably need to remove the corner caps when replacing the transom wood. Leave the steel plate or whatever (looks like a transom cap) off; you don't want steel and aluminum touching. Get a metal shop to break a new transom cap for you out of aluminum or see if your local welder can fab one up for you. </p><p></p><p>Those 'fins' on the bottom of the hull are called strakes. Looks like they were damaged by roller bunks on the trailer; don't use roller bunks on the new trailer. Easily fixed if you can weld aluminum, even easier if you take it to a welder and get them to zip 'em up for ya. </p><p></p><p>Gonna be a good build!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rat, post: 343920, member: 1914"] Sweet hull! Love those old Texas Maid hulls. For the transom just trace the outside of the transom on a piece of cardboard or plastiboard. Trim it until it fits on the inside of the transom and then transfer that to your wood. You will probably need to remove the corner caps when replacing the transom wood. Leave the steel plate or whatever (looks like a transom cap) off; you don't want steel and aluminum touching. Get a metal shop to break a new transom cap for you out of aluminum or see if your local welder can fab one up for you. Those 'fins' on the bottom of the hull are called strakes. Looks like they were damaged by roller bunks on the trailer; don't use roller bunks on the new trailer. Easily fixed if you can weld aluminum, even easier if you take it to a welder and get them to zip 'em up for ya. Gonna be a good build! [/QUOTE]
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