Hey Guys,
First I just wanted to say that this site has been a great resource to me on even planning to start this project. I am NOT good or skilled with tools or woodworking types of activities so this is all brend new to me. I have a few very handy friends helping me with this stuff. Its been a great experience so far & me and a few buddies have decided to go ahead with the project.
What I have is a 16 foot valco v-bottom with a 25 HP Suzuki outboard & a decent trailer. The plan is to take care of a small leak we have in the boat. Strip the old paint, prime & paint it. After that our grand plan is to put in a carpeted deck, a live-well, bilge pump, rod & tackle storage compartments, a bow mount foot controlled trolling motor on a raised casting deck, two fish finders (one up front & one on the transom) & a standing mount to use my Droid X phone as a GPS device for out on the water.
Eventually we would like to clean up the trailer and re-paint that as well. It is a work in progress so I will post what we have done so far. Just keep in mind that I am totally new to this type of thing so we are learning as we go with this project, but we are all learning a TON along the way, not to mention its a ton of fun working on a project like this with with my fishing buddies. Thanks again to this site for the great information and motivation to get it started. Any comments or suggestions are greatly welcomed guys! I hope that I can contribute something to your guyses wonderful community. I will post pictures and try to share what we did as the project keeps coming along. Thanks again tinboats.net!!
First I just wanted to say that this site has been a great resource to me on even planning to start this project. I am NOT good or skilled with tools or woodworking types of activities so this is all brend new to me. I have a few very handy friends helping me with this stuff. Its been a great experience so far & me and a few buddies have decided to go ahead with the project.
What I have is a 16 foot valco v-bottom with a 25 HP Suzuki outboard & a decent trailer. The plan is to take care of a small leak we have in the boat. Strip the old paint, prime & paint it. After that our grand plan is to put in a carpeted deck, a live-well, bilge pump, rod & tackle storage compartments, a bow mount foot controlled trolling motor on a raised casting deck, two fish finders (one up front & one on the transom) & a standing mount to use my Droid X phone as a GPS device for out on the water.
Eventually we would like to clean up the trailer and re-paint that as well. It is a work in progress so I will post what we have done so far. Just keep in mind that I am totally new to this type of thing so we are learning as we go with this project, but we are all learning a TON along the way, not to mention its a ton of fun working on a project like this with with my fishing buddies. Thanks again to this site for the great information and motivation to get it started. Any comments or suggestions are greatly welcomed guys! I hope that I can contribute something to your guyses wonderful community. I will post pictures and try to share what we did as the project keeps coming along. Thanks again tinboats.net!!