Recent content by crawfj13

I scrapped the trailer and finished the boat. My Honda outboard is stuck on a tanker ship due to customs delays. Maybe I can get some walleye next winter.

Thanks! The hatch is a Tempress. I’m impressed with the quality. The only thing that was annoying was that I couldn’t tell if it came with the tackle inserts, so I ordered some. It does in fact come with 4...so now I have 8. :) The floor is going to be fitted with mats from MarineMat out of...

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Boat is about 95% done now. I'd never used the stuff but went with Total Fair from Total boat to fill in the gaps between the deck pieces and the hull. I painted the entire inside with Tuff Coat, Non-Skid Marine Coating (that stuff is amazing). My seat with wiring and integrated tacklebox are...

Not much today, as I was on “Dad Duty” most of the day. Still waiting on foam and for this **** 5200 to set....

Put down the first layer of Tuff Coat Marine. That stuff is amazing, but very strange to roll on (I’m usually trying to keep things out of my paint, not stirring it up). I ran out of expanding foam, and the rest wind be here until tomorrow. Once the 2lb has filled all of the cavities under the...

Experimented with some expanding foam this morning. The daughter is homeschooling thanks to COVID, so I called this chemistry glass. It was a moderate success - and a $50 school lesson (for both of us). That 6lb foam is hard as a rock.

Decided to keep working tonight. The decking is installed and I’m waiting for Amazon to deliver the right expanding foam. Even though I don’t plan to run a bow mounted trolling motor, I decided to spend the $15 for a 25ft length of flexible conduit that I ran from front to back under the floor...

Well, we have a transom! That Coosa board sure does a number on your hands with all of the fiberglass. I did two 3/4 pieces on either side of the aluminum stern plate. I would say that it is now stronger than anything that this boat has ever had on it. I also decided to Gluvit the entire...

Sure did. To be fair, I typed it twice since I deleted my first post. The second one was a bit rushed. Today I leak tested the boat. There were only two very slow rivet leaks. I’m going to coat every rivet and seam with gluvit, so I should be good there. Tomorrow I am headed to my shop to cut...

KDUBS - thanks for the link. The plastic sheeting is a great idea, and one that I will be using myself. I don’t know what makes it a wallet boat other than the fact that it’ll have a wallet sticker on it and I’ll use it to catch walleye :). I won’t have a casting platform, so the deck will be...

$150 worth of sandblasting was totally worth it. I tore down the rotten transom today and will start working on my cardboard templates this week. I got no responses about the expanding foam. I’m going with structural foam in the bottom and then 4lb foam in the rear bench to help with stern...

Expanding Foam question: My thought is to have a completely open boat deck (no casting platform) with a single bench seat in the back where the tiller will be. I've read through the expanding foam posts on this site and wanted to get everyone's opinion on my initial plan. Since the deck with...

While I eagerly await the freshly blasted boat, I have cleared out a space in the garage. My plan is to use these two jetski dolly’s to move the boat around without the trailer.

Hello all. I just found this forum today, while doing research on my pending boat build. I picked up this old gal on Facebook Marketplace for $600 (including the trailer). After sanding and stripping paint for 2 hours, I decided to drop her off at the local sand blaster. My plan is to build...