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I also just noticed a recent CL post for a Native Watercraft Ultimate FX 12 for less than $1000, but the hull looks like a very different design. Its got just one scupper hole way up in the bow. It looks like the transducer would need to go over the side on a gear track if I didn't want to drill...

All of this is great advice. More than I even anticipated. There's a paddle shop here in town and I think I will definitely go there to try one out. Unfortunately they don't carry the kayak I've been thinking the most about. I've been doing a lot of research over the last two days and so far...

A few years ago I bought a 16' Lund and even fixed her up a little bit. (I've got a modification thread on this site somewhere.) Well, to make a long story short I'm going to sell the boat this year. I've got a daughter now, garage space is at a premium and I didn't even take the boat out once...

I have a quick question that some of you may be able to help me with. Instead of laying down plywood for a floor in my boat I have decided to cut some 1/4" rubber mats to size and lay those down on the bottom of the boat. Over these rubber mats I would like to have some carpet; however, I'm not...

16' Lund Mod https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=34875

I have a 6 gallon tank for my '84 Johnson and one of the handles at the top has broken off somewhere in the distant past. The tank only had one handle when I bought the boat. (Pictures are below.) This missing handle isn't really a problem because I rarely take the fuel tank out of the boat, but...

This is about where the seats will be when I'm using the 11" posts. There are a little high at 34" from the floor, but I think it's still more stable than building the floor up into a raised deck. Of course, I might need to build the floor up a little in the front-most floor section just because...

Here's my solution for the storage in the second bench from the stern. I cut the top of off a Sterilite trash bin and I'm going to fit that inside the bench below the hatch. It's going to fit pretty well I think once I cut some of the foam out. And yes, I will be replacing the foam elsewhere. :D

The first thing I needed to figure out was how I wanted to attach the benches to the boat. There are brackets riveted into the hull of the boat, but it seemed like sliding a carpeted piece of plywood into that bracket would be a pain in the neck. (The first picture below is of the bracket.) I...

Whenever I have any free time to spend with my boat I always think, "I'll go fishing." I never think to myself, "I should really replace these crappy benches and fix this boat up." Well, I finally decided to rip out the old benches and start from scratch. Here are some pictures of the boat.

That horse stall mat is the kind of thing I was wondering about, but after looking it up it looks pretty heavy. A 4'x6' piece is 100 lbs. Does anybody know of anything similar that is lighter?

Okay, so here is a big question... Why do we build floors for our boats? I'm not talking about raised decks; I understand the reasoning there. I'm just talking about flat floors on the bottom of the boat. I'm currently rebuilding the interior of my boat and I understand I need benches so I have...

First of all, when I said "crank shaft" I actually meant "gear shaft." Sorry. Anyway... I've put everything back together and it seems to work alright with the damage, so to get you guys a picture I would need to go out to the garage and take everything apart again. I'd also need to clean off...

Last week I posted a question about a spinning throttle grip on my 1984 25HP Johnson. Well, I opened everything up and it turns out the outer half of the steering handle is broken. There is a circle the gear shaft passes through on this part, and this circle has broken off giving the gear shaft...

So without doing too much I think I solved the problem. After inspection it seemed like the teeth on the crankshaft weren't catching. So this is what I did. I put the tiller arm back up to the vertical position and then slowly back down the the horizontal position. Like magic, everything fit...