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Great post! I appreciate the information. I am working on the salty dog thread and my only holdup are the photos. Apparently there is an 800 pixel limit and some of my images have to be adjusted down for this forum to accept. But the problem is that when you post a bunch of photos they do not...

Thanks, but if you would let me, I could do a new thread about this boat I scrapped and use a lot more of the images I have of it. The post I did above was kind of tailored to show what salt did to the boat to answer his original question. If I were to post a new thread on it, I would spin it...

Interesting thread. I have a 2003 4 stroke Yamaha 25. No problems in years. I never use ethanol gas. I always use stabilizer. and I also always use seafoam in the gas to keep all fuel line gum dissolved from tank, line, and carb. And I start the motor at least once a month, sometimes twice a...

I hope you don't mind if I throw my two-cents in? And just so you know, my opinion these days comes from experience with salty dogs here in Florida. Here's the thing... salt and aluminum don't do well together. End of story. I don't care how well you think you clean your boat off, salt and...

Thanks! I used 5/16" aluminum for the transom plate except for the bar across the top. Right now I have steel bolts only across the top and may switch to stainless. And yes, I used 5200 on them and the entire face of the plate too. I could probably remove the bolts at it would still stay in...

I did not think about that. You are probably right!

Yep. I would not use wood either. I also used all aluminum for my transom rebuild. Just posted it here: https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=35070

I do believe it is used as a stiffener and being wood it flexes without breaking. What else do you have on the other side to compensate for this wood if you were to remove it? You would not want to pull it out and then try a hole shot only to watch your transom cave in towards you in the...

I received a message from someone wanting more details on how I made the connection of the new transom parts to those top corner handles. The key was in putting in a thick-walled aluminum rod across the top that goes inside those handles underneath them. I cut the rod off about an inch or so...

Thanks! And yes the boat is now very well balanced with fuel tank and battery up front, and you might have noticed the trolling motor is on the opposite side from the rear driver's seat which also helps to balance it out when it is just me in the boat. The front seat is very stable because of...

Thanks for the compliment. I have thought about the flotation issue. I am considering adding some under the deck and rear seat. But I confess the rear bench was just a quick fix to get it in the water. I'd like to eventually design and build some type of a seat frame that can be removable and...

You got an awesome deal! I have been looking for one of those K models. What year is it? I have a lot of the alumacraft catalogs and specifications on this boat. Let me know if you want them, or I could just post them here... I have nearly the same boat, just two feet shorter than yours. I...

Top speed in this mercury test is about 20mph. My Yamaha 25 will push this boat well over 30mph now. And that two-piece transom repair is rock solid now. No problems at all. My new 41 year old boat is not like grandpa's! Total cost on hull around $500.00 finished.

Here is the finished deck, with carpet added. The deck was done in 3 sections and the middle section has aluminum hinges and aluminum hardware and can be opened from the boat to access under the deck where I put the 6 gallon gas tank and the battery is also under the deck. I left it open in the...

Now it is time to do some inside the boat work. I like an open boat inside to walk around in. I do not like to step on and over a bunch of benches. I know they had foam inside for floatation once upon a time, but this boat is now 41 years old and most of the foam had melted or rotted out and...

So this old boat has two full coats of ALUTHANE inside and out. Next, I wanted to really put something tough on this boat. I wanted to make sure it was sealed up with no leaks and I literally painted on next two new hulls, one inside and one on the outside. So I went with a super high quality...

I like a clean boat inside. And this old boat had one hell of a large cavity up front that filled with dirt and water. So I cleaned it out and filled it with epoxy as shown here. Now no water can get in or out and all water and dirt washes out easily now. You can also see a couple of the rivets...

I use to work in a sign shop and we did metal fabrication every day. So I had no hesitation in doing my own repair of this transom and I wanted to do it in a way that would not need any wood, would not need any plastic. And I would not do any welding. And I would do a complete repair and a very...

Showing the cracked welds in the crappy transom repair. Time to rip this junk out! A 3/8" plate of aluminum across the transom and it was not even fit in tight to hull. You can see space between this plate and hull. Another reason it flexed and cracked the welds. Out it goes! I need a bigger...

My first job was to scrape and sand down the outside of the hull and remove thousands of barnacles and take it back to bare aluminum. And those little buggers were hard as a rock! Sanding was not working, so scraping by hand was about the best way to remove them. A long tedious job. This is...