Bigwrench
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New guy to the Forums from SWVA/East Tn area . Have spent hours the last few days reading through some of the amazing posts on the site so thank you all in advance for a great resource !
I belong to a fishing website and after several recommendations to come here for info , I decided this is the place to ask questions about my project. Hopefully I can help someone else who is looking for guidance and learn a few things along the way. I apologize in advance if this is in the wrong section and Admin feel free to move it if so. Thank you
I got this 1984 Bass Attacker by Sea Nymph boat off of my neighbor by trading 5 oil changes on her SUV ! We had kicked around a price for a couple years and she decided that's what she wanted so it is now mine with very little initial investment. It has a 55 HP Nissan 2 Stroke that runs great ( more on that later).
The boat had about 18" of water in it when I hooked it up to move it so found a steep hill and drained it , it was full of leaves and junk and all the wood was rotted and the foam was saturated.
My ideas are to strip it down to the aluminum check it for leaks and repair any issues that are present . Im not sure if I want to replace the floor with wood or aluminum yet . I would prefer Aluminum with some sort of Non Slip coating just for ease of cleaning it. The boat was seriously neglected by her teenage boys and is in need of some serious TLC.
I started out by removing all the floor decking and anything that had to be removed to get me to that point
I belong to a fishing website and after several recommendations to come here for info , I decided this is the place to ask questions about my project. Hopefully I can help someone else who is looking for guidance and learn a few things along the way. I apologize in advance if this is in the wrong section and Admin feel free to move it if so. Thank you
I got this 1984 Bass Attacker by Sea Nymph boat off of my neighbor by trading 5 oil changes on her SUV ! We had kicked around a price for a couple years and she decided that's what she wanted so it is now mine with very little initial investment. It has a 55 HP Nissan 2 Stroke that runs great ( more on that later).
The boat had about 18" of water in it when I hooked it up to move it so found a steep hill and drained it , it was full of leaves and junk and all the wood was rotted and the foam was saturated.
My ideas are to strip it down to the aluminum check it for leaks and repair any issues that are present . Im not sure if I want to replace the floor with wood or aluminum yet . I would prefer Aluminum with some sort of Non Slip coating just for ease of cleaning it. The boat was seriously neglected by her teenage boys and is in need of some serious TLC.
I started out by removing all the floor decking and anything that had to be removed to get me to that point