monarch1652
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i am the owner of a free 1652 monarch flat bottom that i got from my uncle after he knocked the lower unit off of the motor that was on it. i purchased a 1974 50hp merc tiller off of craigslist for 300 dollars with only a few wires i replace and i cleaned out the carbs and made sure it was running like a top i then turned around and sold it for 550. i bought a 1987 force 50hp which in my opinion is not my motor of choice but i got to test run it on the pontoon it came off of and it really ran great and it had all the cables and everything i needed to put my sonsole back in. it had a deck in the rear and a huge deck in the front that were completely waterlogged ans saturated so much they were rotted. i looked on this site and was inspired so i have completely stripped down my whole boat to bare hull the way she came from the factory and i am going to do a whole project on putting in a deck in and floor. i want to go lightweight because the boat the way it sits now absolutely handles great and fly's down the river. the way it was before just sitting floating down the river looked to me like a "full barge" i figured one good wave and i would be swamped. now it sits on top of the water because i have nothing in the boat and i love it. i want to go as light weight on the decks as possible. put some battery storage in the front for my trolling motor batteries and put a thin flooring over the stringers in the mid section of the boat. any ideas would be greatly appreciated and i am going to upload a bunch of pics to show my progress as i go along. :beer: