Recent content by wayward wayne

Worked on the wiring of the navigation lights, spot lights, and chart plotter. Did a little camo while I was at it. Still not completely finished, but close.

The boat handles 100% differently now. It feels weird to have control of the direction you're going now. Started the paint job tonight. Ran out of paint of course and Cabela's is out of stock. Hope I can finish it before the weekend.

Thanks for the complements. I have a little more experience than the normal project builder. I used to build jetboats while I was in college and now I run the engineering department for a jetboat manufacturer. Take a look at the video of what I design. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7xoXkECwc

Cut the bottom of the pods off today. Welded the new bottoms to them. Also took this time to weld in some bilge plugs into both pods. Also welded the corner caps on. I'll take it out again tomorrow morning and see how she does.

The only thing with tinypic was that I could only upload one photo at a time. If they had a mass upload option like photobucket I would have used it.

The best way is to run a second battery up front

Took the boat out for the first water test yesterday. The rivets all sealed nicely. The only problem I had was the pods are flush with the bottom of the boat which moved the plane surface beyond the motor. This lifted the boat up a little bit and raised the pump too far out of the water. Once...

Finished the floor supports and stick steering. Full left to right turn is about a 15" throw. Should make the boat nice and squirrely. Mounted the front suspension seat and controls. almost ready for a test run.

I figured with all of the weight of the motor I Should probably build some pods. I have found an issue with this I'll discuss a little later.

I bent new transverse frames and side supports out of .160" instead of the old .070". First time with solid rivets. I kinda want to build an airplane now. I'm raising the floor for the stick steering and it will help tie the sides in. I also welded in a support rail on the inside of the...

I'm pretty sure re-sizing all of these pictures is going to take longer than building the actual boat. I decided to ditch the bench seats. After I removed the floor I noticed that all of the transverse frames were cracked. Looks like somebody tried to weld and patch the supports to no avail...

I was originally going to build a mud motor for this but I came across a guy selling 3 135hp evinrudes and a jet pump for $750. Turns out it was really 1 135hp and 2 115hp. Not usually a big concern but the pump only fit the 135 because of the 20 splines. The 115's have the four spline. I...

This is going to take a while. The transom was rotted out so I cut it off and replaced it with all aluminum. I also converted it from a short to long shaft transom while I was at it.

I'm seriously trying to upload photos. I have a ton and have already uploaded them on duckhuntingchat but apparently they are too wide for tinboats. This is an incredible pain in the ***. Any suggestions on how to make this smoother?