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Be a bit more jam but at a weight penalty. Tubing is hard on a boat and if that's the goal, maybe need to upgrade the whole package. The...

Mine is an old fishing camp rental boat. I did give it a nice paint job a few years back, but it's an old rental boat. I can ground it...

I ended up getting it going after a carb rebuild. I just need to link and sync it and I think it’ll be good to go

Mix a good dose of seafoam in the fuel and run it in a barrel. Probably just needs cleaned out. Those motors if taken care of will last...

You could probably run carpet, mouse and all through that motor.

You'll get there once you catch a case of twofootitis. I went from an 11ft to a 14 to a 16.... I'm holding for now ..

Agree older than 86 not that it matters. Boat like this is a blank canvas for whatever a handy guy can imagine.

I was going to suggest paint stripper but you seem to be making decent progress. Stripping a boat is a time consuming process 💪

Weight capacity of that boat is 325. You, paddle, anchor, life vest and some fishing gear are at that already. Might want to put that...

Like mentioned, it's all guesswork until you get rpm reading. But my years on the water are telling me that 15 pushing two solid men on...