Recent content by mcshorelunch

Some pics of her getting stripped.. slow process...I count 4 layers of paint...at one time somebody painted this thing completely Orange...inside and out...

A few more pics.. 700+ rivets.. 3 full sized truck toolboxes... 10 street signs.. 20 4 foot lengths of angle ( aprox was using mostly scrap..). 1 4x8 sheet of 2'' closed cell and 1/2 sheet of 1.5 "... 2 sticks of 1"tubing... And around 40 hours of work up to this point.. She goes in the...

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Have been pounding on this for the last few weekends almost ready ...

It has been a long winter in il... You can drive down any road here and pick up 2 or 3 that a plow or an unfortunate driver has snapped... Otherwise I stopped at a few municipalities and picked up some... For a case of beer... My biggest score is the 3 full sized truck tool boxes that were...

Put 3 hours into her yesterday... Ripped out all 4benches and the old rotted transom wood...demo is always the easy part...

Yeh buddy!!! Weather finally broke in northern IL.. 20 degrees count it! I picked up a beat up monark. 1442 last fall for a song.. And have been amassing materials all winter in hopes to pound this mod out by May ... the hull has a ton of potential.. My plans are to gut the interior...

Also, your build (Scott) has the same beam and similar original layout as my MonArk.. after your mod.. how stable is she? can 2 people stand in her and fish without too much problem? would you have went all aluminum if you had to do it again?

Great suggestion for sure.. but.. the layout im going with is pretty basic... fab an all aluminum deck from the bow back 5.5ft ,gut the center (cock pit) and raise 1in, deck in aluminum ... fab a back bench with compartments...so, its either, both batts in the back.. or crank batt in back...

thanx for the advice... i've decided to go with a deep cycle centered under the front deck set back as far as possible... the crank batt will be mounted and centered under the rear bench.. and the gas tank centered between the bench and transom... ill be adding 2" of flotation under the...

makes sense... a nice big group 27 up front should keep the nose down when im riding solo...

I am about to start a mod on a Monark 1442.. it will have 2 batts when complete (trolling motor/lights and electric start).. the T-motor is foot controlled bow mount.. room is not an issue I am gutting the boat completely and framing from scratch... this is more a stability/getting on plane...