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I fish out of my buddies 17ft Lund with a 115 Yamaha. Mostly on Georgian Bay, Lake Huron where it's big deep water. We do several trips a year to smaller skinny waters and while the big Lund will float in about 2 ft, it's a lot of weight when you do bang the bottom. It's a heavy solid boat that...

What crazyboat said. Boat on horses or trailer and run a hose in. You don't have to fill it to the gunwales, just a few inches. On horses, the boat can be tilted so the water covers different sections. On a trailer simply use the jack to tilt it and check front and rear. It's almost never the...

I had one of those. It was a great running engine.

I have an older Naden 16 ft vee hull utility that serves fishing and camping duties. Pushed by a 35 HP johnnyrude. It will haul 3 guys and camping gear enough for 3 days and still plane ..just. The good thing about old boats is they've already depreciated so you don't pay a lot of "stupid tax"...

I use a spool gun. Or a push/pull for aluminum wire welding. That being said, it's hard to weld hulls with wire and super easy to burn through. Especially older thinner hulls. Tig for the win in that case, although more expensive.

I have one of those boats. They're pretty stout for a 12'. I've had a variety of motors on it ranging from 6 to 18hp. It really did well with a fastwin 18 johnnyrude and would plane with 3 people, or 2 guys and French River camping gear. I currently have a 9.5 which will push it ok by myself or...

Most of those sea nymphs are fairly stout and rated for 35hp.

I used rustoleum to paint my boat. I used lacquer thinner and a hardener shot out of a cheap hvlp. It worked fine but I ruined my garage. I hung plastic and covered everything, looked like Dexter's kill lab, lol. The overspray mist whatever crept in everywhere and out the crevices between the...

You can get a clamp on mount to put the display on the gunwale. That will allow you to play with location. I'm rarely alone in my boat so I keep mine at the stern out of the way. If it was just me I'd likely mount it in front of me so I could swivel it towards the front.

That's really cool. I had a sea king and did a spit and shine a few years ago. I think mine may have been a StarCraft but not sure. https://www.tinboats.net/threads/one-man%E2%80%99s-junk.44152/

Either shave your head and don't wear a shirt or go downstream .😂 Sounds like you're hauling the mail already! Raising the motor on the transom sometimes yields a mph or 2. I used flatbar shims to dial the height in before drilling and bolting the clamp. I started with an inch but had to bring...

Then Install console steering and a seadoo motor!

Interesting. If you have 1/8 sheet and a welder, why bother with trying to form angle. Cut a sheet and weld a strip to your transom sheet formed to fit around the inside hull profile. You can weld both sides or tack inside and weld outside. Then your transom is ready to rivet to the hull.

I'm in the "in gear while towing" camp. An old guy at a marina told me, it could wear things, long ago and I never questioned it. I can't see a downside to towing it in gear. In fact if I am following someone who has a spinning prop, I'm fixated on it rather than watching the road....so maybe...

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 Mercatsu 20 is a good motor, an overachiever imo. Maybe you can play with motor height and weight distribution to get a better running boat. Check rpms and see...

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, beach it, bounce off rocks. Let a slimy pike flop around and rinse it off with lake water. I sure admire the new fancy boats and maybe in retirement..... But...

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 a lifetime and half a lifetime if abused!

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.