Recent content by DesertRAT

Very Nice! That's a great idea Shaugh. I may have to try your idea, my bimini is sitting kinda low, I should have gotten one that was a few inches higher.

With the help from my son, we managed to get the deck cut. I'm down to the end of the boat now. I also got the graphics in yesterday. I'm done for this weekend, hoping to get some time around the middle of October to finish decking it out.

Been working on the second half, back half, of the boat for the past few weeks. Making some progress. The hardest part is getting the measurements right.

Thank you Randy for the reply. Yeah, I caught my mistake early on, after reading up on a few more builds here, I realized I used the wrong wood. I took the trailer all apart again and used non-treated 4x4's and some new carpet. Got a quick question, I need to take the boat off the trailer...

The Bimini Top is a must here in California. It gets brutally hot in the summer. The boat is coming along, between work and family I have a hard time getting in the garage to work on it on a regular basis. I am hoping I can get it all done before Christmas this year.

My bimini top came in this weekend. It went on pretty easy. I had to have one so at least there will be some shade while fishing.

Here are a few more pics of using the joggle sticks. I spent all weekend on this boat and got the front deck done and ready for spar urethane and marine carpet. I am going to start on the back half of the boat next and carpet all the pieces at the same time later on down the road.

This weekend I started working on the fishing deck. I tried using cardboard to outline the curve of the boat but had no luck. I couldn't get close enough with my templates to make it look good. I ended up going old school by using Joggle Sticks (pattern sticks). I went to the dollar store...

One more pic of the front.

I took a day off to work on some more water sealing my wood and getting the sealed frame back into the boat. I am using galvanized clips and screws to hold the wood in place and then using stainless steel clips and aluminum pop rivets to fasten to boat.

By the way, I decided not to paint the exterior. I got all of the old paint off and polished it up good and decided I liked the way it looked.

The wood pieces that I had previously cut were sealed using the spar first and then stained with a colored (white) sealant/stain to help me identify which pieces were done.

Sorry for the long delay, life just happened and I got busy doing other things. But I am now back in the game and working on the boat again. I ripped out the old transom and put a new piece in. I ended up putting 5 coats of spar urethane on it to seal it up. This was a fairly easy process, I...

The one i got from Amazon was $15 and it's the NOCO HM318BKS Group 24-31 Snap-Top Battery Box for Automotive, Marine, and RV Batteries. Sounds like you got a very good deal for $7

I'm not sure about lake Perris. Only been there a few times when I was stationed at March AFB. I go to Big Bear a lot for fishing, which is local, and Bass Lake, Yosemite when it starts to warm up around May. Silverwood Lake is a about 20 minutes from my house but it gets very windy there. I...