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I picked up some new seats and mounts the other day, and got those put in on Saturday. I also got the ol Johnson 9.5 fired up after sitting for like 6 years. 4 pulls! I was pretty amazed! I fail at embedding......... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V_h-2k0MVY

I just scored a piece of aluminum and a piece of delran from work. Im going to epoxy one of them to the rear of the boat, and use that to screw my transducer to for my depth finder. Now i need to make this thing run and get it in the water!

Oh and i need to figure out how to mount my transducer. I dont want to drill holes in the boat, and i really dont want to c-clamp a board on it. I would like to do something more permanent like some sort of adhesive.

Thanks for the tips guys! I went ahead and used ABX on it, as this project kind of fell into my lap and i wasnt prepared to spend hundreds of dollars on marine plywood anyways lol. I may re-do the whole thing this winter, with new paint and all. But for now i went ahead and finished up the...

My next order of business will be replacing the transom, and getting the motor running. I would also like to get some 3/4" marine plywood and make a casting deck on the front. Nothing fancy, i was basically going to cut out a section to fit over the 2 furthest forward seats, and then build a box...

So over the weekend i picked up a boat from my wifes aunt. It is a 1971 Alumacraft 16' with a 1971(?) Johnson 9.5 horse. My wifes grandparents bought the boat, motor and trailer new in 1971. Its been sitting for almost 16 years, although her aunt got stickers for it and had the boat tuned up a...