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Doing a little wiring in a bare 16’ rowboat—no decks, no floor, etc. Nav lights, a few small interior lights, bilge pump, 12v lighter socket, and thats it. My question is, what are your ideas for where to house fuses and switch panel? Ideas welcomed, example photos highly encouraged and...

I am considering adding a couple very small, unobtrusive interior lights along the gunnels or seats in my bare-bones aluminum boat. This is on a bare aluminum hull that lives outside year-round, is covered with snow all winter, and is generally not babied, ever. I DO NOT want a larger, more...

I am re-riveting on a gunwale that popped a few rivets. I have aluminum brazier-head rivets of the appropriate length (3/8" length), but I do not have access to a compressor. I have found a few references here and elsewhere from people saying they have installed rivets by hand using a hammer...

Hoping folks can offer some advice on what I think (hope) will be a fairly easy repair. Boat is a mid-90’s alumacraft that I had turned upside down on the trailer for winter storage. Had a decent-sized branch blow down and land on the edge of the gunwale—it missed the hull, but bent the gunwale...

I'm looking at getting a new starting battery for a 25hp 1990's merc, which will also power a 9" sonar/gps, nav lights and a few very small LED interior lights. I have a giant of a commercial starting battery for this purpose in my bigger boat, but in order to maximise space and keep weight...

Hi all, I have heard many people say that after covid boat prices have gone through the roof. I am wondering if what I am seeing is part of that, or if I'm looking at book values wrong, or what. I'm shopping for a plain, tiller, 16' tin boat--extremely difficult to find near me, everything is...

Hi folks, Looking at a couple boats, one of which somehow had the entire gunwales removed. It's basically a standard 14' v-hull rowboat. It appears someone turned it into a project at some point and removed gunwales, and did a half-baked job of replacing them with wooden inwale/outwale. The...

Hi folks, been a bunch of years since I've frequented this site, but figured I'd try here and see if someone in my area (within a couple hours of North-Western Vermont) has outgrown a boat or hasn't gotten around to a build, etc. I'm looking to purchase a well-used V or semi-v-hull boat, or...