Introduction and 1975 Sea Nymph 16’ Skiff Rebuild
New poster here, but have lurked here on & off for a while. I appreciate everyone’s welcoming attitudes and willingness to share. And like the boat website I own and run, I see an extremely high ‘signal/value to noise’ ratio!
I hail from the Boston area and grew up on boats, as my Dad would buy an old wooden boat and his 4 sons would help him replank and finish her out as needed; hull, motor and/or electrical. Most of my rebuilds over the past ‘many’ year have been a mix of small aluminum skiffs or larger frp hulls.
My latest build had been buying an ‘empty’ 25’ Parker sport cabin hull that had been abandoned by Harvard University of all places. She started life as nothing but an older glass hull with the original fuel tank and glass windows (everything else, and I mean EVERYTHING, had been vandalized!) and I built her up into a complete offshore-rigged machine complete with 3 steering and control stations, including a fully equipped tuna tower, and powered by a new Suzuki DF250hp motor.
I learned so much from that ordeal that I actually started, own and run the website for Parker boats – Classic Parker. Here’s my intro post plus my boat info: https://www.classicparker.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6 from that site.
I’m now selling her and getting back into smaller and easily trailerable skiffs for inshore estuary fishing for striped bass, bluefish, and flounder. So here I am!
Part 1 Aluminum Skiff Rebuild – Introduction
I rebuilt this skiff in the Spring of 2008 to have for fishing the estuaries when the cost of ga$oline went out of sight! My big 25’ Parker at that time had an older 2-stroke motor and she was lucky to see 1.7 to 1.8 mpg! They'll be some tips in this old post (it had been posted on my https://www.classicparker.com site) that might help one do their own boat projects.
Costs to date:
* Hull $150
* Raka Epoxy 1/2-gallon kit $50
* 3/4" marine ply, good 1-side $40
* F'Glass $8
* Zinc chromate primer, I had on hand, but new quarts 2-part mix of epoxy-based primer is ~$40
* SS bolts I had on hand too …
Total to date ~$250
New poster here, but have lurked here on & off for a while. I appreciate everyone’s welcoming attitudes and willingness to share. And like the boat website I own and run, I see an extremely high ‘signal/value to noise’ ratio!
I hail from the Boston area and grew up on boats, as my Dad would buy an old wooden boat and his 4 sons would help him replank and finish her out as needed; hull, motor and/or electrical. Most of my rebuilds over the past ‘many’ year have been a mix of small aluminum skiffs or larger frp hulls.
My latest build had been buying an ‘empty’ 25’ Parker sport cabin hull that had been abandoned by Harvard University of all places. She started life as nothing but an older glass hull with the original fuel tank and glass windows (everything else, and I mean EVERYTHING, had been vandalized!) and I built her up into a complete offshore-rigged machine complete with 3 steering and control stations, including a fully equipped tuna tower, and powered by a new Suzuki DF250hp motor.
I learned so much from that ordeal that I actually started, own and run the website for Parker boats – Classic Parker. Here’s my intro post plus my boat info: https://www.classicparker.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6 from that site.
I’m now selling her and getting back into smaller and easily trailerable skiffs for inshore estuary fishing for striped bass, bluefish, and flounder. So here I am!
Part 1 Aluminum Skiff Rebuild – Introduction
I rebuilt this skiff in the Spring of 2008 to have for fishing the estuaries when the cost of ga$oline went out of sight! My big 25’ Parker at that time had an older 2-stroke motor and she was lucky to see 1.7 to 1.8 mpg! They'll be some tips in this old post (it had been posted on my https://www.classicparker.com site) that might help one do their own boat projects.
Costs to date:
* Hull $150
* Raka Epoxy 1/2-gallon kit $50
* 3/4" marine ply, good 1-side $40
* F'Glass $8
* Zinc chromate primer, I had on hand, but new quarts 2-part mix of epoxy-based primer is ~$40
* SS bolts I had on hand too …
Total to date ~$250