Country Dave’s Lowe 1752 modification/restoration project.

[Country Dave]

Looks great Dave!

Thanks SD,
How is Pole dancer coming?

 

[smackdaddy53]

Looks great Dave!

Thanks SD,
How is Pole dancer coming?

Picked up some tempress hatches yesterday for about half price. I am laying them out right now and ill post pics on my thread asap.

 

[Badbagger]

Looks GREAT Dave !

 

[Country Dave]

Looks GREAT Dave !

Thanks brother,
Chipping away at it. I’m in the office tomorrow but I’m going to work on the livewell a little tonight.

 

[Pweisbrod]

Looks great man. You better hang on to this one for a while, you are really hammering the details!

 

[Pweisbrod]

Looks great man. You better hang on to this one for a while, you are really hammering the details!

 

[Country Dave]

Looks great man. You better hang on to this one for a while, you are really hammering the details!

Thanks brother,

Yes I’m going to keep it for a while. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to get something else as well. :LOL2: I really want to build one for my oldest grandson, he’s 7 now. Hopefully he will take interest and we can build it together.

 

[Country Dave]

These are a few pics I pulled off another forum members build thread and one from mine. This is why I’m not a proponent of foam, closed cell or not. This is typical and it happens when moister gets trapped between wood and aluminum or foam and aluminum. It can’t evaporate and it’s even worse if the aluminum is bare.

 

[Badbagger]

Excellent example and a great lesson for all, good info Dave.

 

[Country Dave]

Doing a little pluming today,

I have a box full of through-hull fittings so I thought I would put them to good use. I don’t want any issues with the fuel lines chaffing on the edges of the aluminum so I used a couple to run the fuel line through. Out of the tank and through the bench to the filter/water separator.

 

[Badbagger]

Great idea, the last thing you need are headaches and a simple preventive measure =D>

 

[Country Dave]

I installed my livewell drain. I used a through-hull with a 1 1/8 outlet. I’m running a 800 GPH livewell pump so I’m going to be moving some water and don’t want to overwhelm the drain and have the well overflow. It’s going to be on a timer and if the drain can’t keep up I’ll just have to regulate with the ball valve by simply closing the valve some and restring the intake. I don’t think it’s going to be an issue.

 

[Country Dave]

I also got my bilge pump today. 1100 GPH. That was the biggest I could find in a 12 volt.

 

[Badbagger]

The countdown to the splashdown =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

 

[Badbagger]

The beast I have doesn't have a livewell and I went back and forth and opted not to add one. I'll invariably end up doing some form of a cooler livewell to hold pinfish when we hunt Mr. Grouper but I'll predominantly troll the Mann's Stretch 25 on the flats in about 25'.

 

[Country Dave]

Thanks bro,

Chipping away at it. I do the majority of my fishing up really shallow with soft plastics but when the bites slows there’s nothing like a frisky live shrimp or white bait to entice a snook or red. I love to snapper and grouper fish as well so a livewell was a must.
When I built/restored my mako there was no room for a livewell so I did the cooler thing and it worked just fine. If you go that wrought let me know I thing I still have the pics somewhere.

 

[Badbagger]

Hey thanks Dave, see if you can find those pics :mrgreen:

 

[bigwave]

Looking good Dave, great idea with the thru-hull fittings.

 

[Country Dave]

Looking good Dave, great idea with the thru-hull fittings.

Thanks Kevin,
Yours look great, glad you got to splash it. Now let’s go replace that impeller. Done yet……. :mrgreen:

 

[bigwave]

yea yea tonight.......