Recent content by BayouCajun

YJ, I think they were 4 foot stock 3/4 inch from big box, used 10 or 11 inch nipples down at flange to trailer, then cut pvc length plus a inch or so to cover with caps slid on. Picture above doesn't show how I have temporary ratchet straps holding guide ons in place, as I didn't weld them in...

a little more work on the boat… mounted the fighting chair: and in action:

I really like repurposing the 'walker' to a 'grab bar'…..going to probably use that…. Great looking job on the bench seat, too.

Way too hot to be working on a boat….but even so, the show must go on... Some recent use of almost latest improvements: Started on a rod locker, drilled into bulkhead on front casting deck and install six golf club tubes to slide rod tips into. Then prototyped rod butt holders, with a...

Well, its been awhile, I haven't done a lot to the boat… But, I have have a little with it… that was a little field testing of the new rod rack… I managed to hang some reds and specks down in La. on it. I am back in TN, and now for some crappie. Getting ready to start working on boat in a...

Great looking finish, and utility built in everywhere. A great looking and I bet a great fishing boat.

Got some drilling, screwing and riveting done: Installed a couple of galvanized pipe guide ons with a PVC cover, will add lights to posts at some later time. Removed old wood rod rack from back casting deck and temporary mount of new rod rack. Posts are newly found alum posts, mounting...

Was just looking at the pic of the boat on trailer behind the truck…sweet… I am doing guide ons right now out of galv pipe mounted on flange, I was going to drop a pvc section over it and thought about running lights, too… I see that you ran a bolt thru the pvc section into your upright steel...

then you are down in my old neck of the woods, used to fish out of Shell Beach and Hopedale with mine most of the time. I like your flooring back by the transom. I hadn't come up with an idea for that yet, I had been using some rubber mats there. I don't have a welder, but rivets will have to...

Progress today, shoulda went fishing, I am going into withdrawals... More donor alum, good strong tube, some pre bent angles, and two adjustable brackets: Prototype time, for rod holder racks: I don't have my triangles in the mix yet for bracing support, I am not prototyping with...

I will be watching your build, I am running into some of the same issues (batteries…and what to do with them)… Let me share a personal battery experience. I had a battery in a 74' Monte Carlo, with a cracked post explode while my hand was holding a combo wrench over the battery, the explosion...

Mojo, thanks for the comments, I wish I had the time to do the detail that you are doing, but if I did that I wouldn't live long enough to do any more fishing… so, its put in as many features as possible to add to my fishing time, now, and pretty it up later…maybe…if there is enough time. It...

ictalurus, thanks, its a good sturdy boat, hope to make it better. Its idea time, I scored some alum pieces today. A truck slotted track rack. One piece is hanging above the rear rod holders and other is along the open side of the boat at the gunwale. Pretty hefty stuff, has a running...

Time for progress... Sizing up the trolling motor mount, I used the original mount used with the old Motorguide screwed in its original holes, then sized up a piece of the bow deck that I previously cut over the top of it: Rough fit the new base plate by screwing it into the original mount...

Really nice, I like the lights in the compartments. I have a few small led lights that I was going to install, this idea may be a game changer.