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I had posted before about buying a Ouachita 16 foot, flat bottom boat. I am presently redoing the trailer and had a question. It looks like this trailer was originally yellow. This makes sense to me because the boat was originally yellow. Did Ouachita match their trailers to their boats...

I have been posting about trying to restore/modify this 1973 Ouachita 1648. This weekend I got help to get it off the trailer so I can do the bottom of the boat and clean/repair/repaint the trailer. Previous owner had put 2X10 and plywood to support the center bottom of the boat and 2X4s...

Bedliner painted boat bottoms.....WOW! What an idea. Never heard of that before but I think my Ouachita will have it done in black. Is there any pre-treatment of the aluminum that should be done before hand? I know I have to sand off whatever these people used before I do it. Any special...

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In my plan to keep everything that goes into the boat as plastic wood or aluminum I found a deal. It is called King Starboard and it is plastic sheet goods. It comes in a couple of thicknesses and I am not sure how thick this stuff is. I have a possible swap going on that will get me quite a...

I am posting on redoing this boat in another thread but thought this might be a good one to do a separate one. I bought this boat last year and it was used as a golf cart motored reservoir rig for many years. The rear area was boxed in and used as a battery storage area. The whole interior of...

Ran into a deal today on a Yamaha 20, 4 stroke for my Ouachita 16 foot flat bottom. Really clean motor with roughly 40 hours use on it. Looking forward to picking it up next week. I am looking forward to using this boat in a local PA lake and some of the creeks and rivers off the Chesapeake...

My 1973 Ouachita 1648 redo. I picked this boat up cheap late last year. She had been sitting, uncovered, in the man's yard for three years. Needless to say the seats, carpet and the heavy cables to the 36 volt Harley-Davidson golf cart outboard are trash. This Spring I took the cover off and...