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DPDT switch wired for UP ANCH, DOWN NAV ...just in case you need it :D

Tomorrow (Thursday.. it's tomorrow for me cuz I'm still up :lol: ) we're gonna work on the boat a bit. I'll try to get some pics of what we're doing to put up here for everyone..

I just used that stuff on some rivets that were hidden on my boat a couple weeks ago. As far as I can tell, it's AWESOME stuff. It really bonds to the aluminum and doesn't come off. I think the right way to fix your leaking rivets is to rebuck the leaky rivets, BUT, if you can't get to both...

Sup fellas? I just joined this site the other day, from a link from MS.com, and I already wanna trick out my boats :lol:

Hey guys.. it floats. I had it running wide open, and none of the rivets popped out or anything. There's still a few rivets that are leaking that we missed. I think if we fill it with water again I can pick up the ones that leak. I'll have to take it back out and mark any that leak on the lake...

it had some water in it from the rain, so i bailed until I could pick the front of the trailer up and put it on a jack stand... it's still leaking, but not from the rivets we tightened. I think we didn't really do a good enough job of flooding it before we started. So I'm gonna go back and fill...

You know, I was kind of thinking that, but my grandfather was like "No no. This is how we used to pound rivets back at the shop." So I just went with it. Since we did them wrong, what kind of damage should I expect? Will they fall out and sink me?

I haven't gotten a chance to float it yet.. I think Wednesday the weather should be nice enough to get out. One thing about rebucking the rivets: one side is rounded, and the other should be flat. Peen the flat side. (which happened to be the inside of the hull on my boat)

I guess that makes sense.. Sometimes I tend to over-think things :D Thanks guys!

Just curious.. I don't really have anyplace I can put the boat in the water to measure or anything, so how do I make sure my deck is going to be somewhat level when I'm fishing by myself or with someone else?

Thanks guys.. keep 'em coming. I was wondering too if anyone can hook me up with a site/store with cheap seats? Something along the lines of 2 seats (w/backs) with 6" pedestals for 70 bucks would be nice.. I doubt I can find anything that cheap but that's my target price.

I'm working on my grandfather's 14' semi-v.. (I forget the specifics of make/model. It's close to 60 years old though.) ..and I'm considering trying to convince him to buy the materials and let me deck the boat and install semi-elevated seats :twisted: Right now he's really concerned about the...

We worked on it today.. probably a dozen and a half rivets that showed signs of leaks. I held a sledge underneath while my grandfather banged on the rivets with a ball-peen. Any we couldn't get to, I sealed with the Cabelas aluminum boat patch. We're thinking about painting it with steelflex up...

I just talked to my grandfather (retired toolmaker) and he seems to think he can make a tool, like a pin-punch but with a concave head, for rebucking rivets. We're gonna try it tomorrow. I'll definitely post back with results.

If we can get a video that'd be sweet.. I went to a couple hardware stores and couldn't find that tool. For some reason I thought it was on the home depot website but instead it's on an avionics site (whoops.. that's what late nights do to ya) I think I'm going to just put the sledge behind and...

Thanks.. I did search before I posted, because I know how annoying repeat posts can be. I was looking more for anyone with positive/negative results of the cabelas stuff. I did search again and came up with a post someone had that linked to a rivet tool from home depot. It's like a punch, but...

Hi guys, I'm new to the site. I found it while surfing another outdoor forum.. Looks like you guys have a lot of awesome mods you've done! I really never thought that you can build awesome decks with storage on normal old row boats :twisted: Looks like I have a new goal with the boat now...