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You're off to a nice start with some desirable modifications in mind. Magna's are versatile multi-species boats. Looking forward to more on your build.

I'm no motor expert but I had a 1990 Evinrude 40 on a Tracker TX17. A slight bit cold blooded on cold weather starts but to this day never had a motor start faster the balance of the day. Got in a habit of just touching the key when jumping from fishing spot to spot and would turn around and...

Johnny You are good. Great info from your posts. The photo is right side up...the boat is upside down! Pop rivets have transom wood behind them. Holes don't even go all the way through. Some seem to stick out a little from the surface and may be letting water into the transom wood from the...

Dang it. Two post of the same picture. Sorry

Thanks again Sir. Wish I knew now what I'm going to know when this is done. I'm going to try and post a few pictures here and see what happens. The first picture is of solid rivets on a few test sheets. One is set with an air hammer and a 3/16" set. The other is with a flat set. These are...

Johnny - Thanks for the input I was intending to use my air hammer to set the rivets. I was under the impression that the rivet set went on the head and the bucking bar went on the tail. Is it acceptable to make a bar as you suggested for the head and use my flat set in the air hammer for the...

My first post folks so please be gentile. I’ve been watching the site for some time and really appreciate the content. I own three tin boats and have started a refurbish of my largest, a 1994 Tracker Magna 19. It’s not lived a gentle life with previous owners and it’s time for some work...