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Prowelder

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Started a new project. A complete remodel of a 1652 Weldbilt!
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Not much accomplished yet, but more to come soon. Stay tuned.

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Interesting...what are your plans for the boat? I'm especially interested in the work you're doing on the rear deck.
 
I'm going to frame it out and make a door in the middle. Similar to my last build.

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This is the aluminum diamond plate floor i cut and notched this out first. I'm not going to install it permanently until I finished all my framework. I plan on bringing the front deck back an additional 20 inches. Just past the first rib. I'm going to cut holes in the top of the back seat bench and make a storage compartment for the batteries. And I am also going to cut the front deck out and recess some storage bins in there

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Almost done framing out the back deck

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The back deck is framed out. I'm going to skin over it, and fabricate a door to cover the back. Then I'm going to cut out the bench seat and fabricate battery trays for two 12 volt batteries to sit inside of the back bench.

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On a completely different subject I picked up this beauty today for $400 with a trailor, a front bow mount trolling motor and a old 15 horsepower Evinrude. It's a 15ft 1964 Orlando. This is more my style I'm into the old school stuff. Every Joe shmo has same old lowe jon boat or weldbuilt on the lake. I will start a thread on this as soon as I finish the 1652. This is going to be my personal boat so you don't want to miss this.

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That's gonna look awesome! Can't wait to see what the hatch will look like! Taking my boat to a fabricator tomorrow to have a fuel cell and some other small stuff done.
 
mbweimar said:
That's gonna look awesome! Can't wait to see what the hatch will look like! Taking my boat to a fabricator tomorrow to have a fuel cell and some other small stuff done.
My customer ordered the hatches and they should be here in the next couple of days. Tomorrow I'm going to work on the floor and the back deck. I sheared the pieces before I left work today to skin the back[emoji570]

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Prepping the back deck for welding. I had to grind all the welds on the framing smooth. I could have notched around the stock back bench seat, but I figured it would look a lot more professional if I cut it out and ran the new deck smooth with the inside edges of the boat. I'm going home to grab some more beer and then I'm going to weld it up.[emoji6]

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Back deck is welded up! Next up fab and install back deck doors and hatches.

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