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Awesome build! I love how your winch says "NOT FOR THE MOVEMENT OF HUMANS"

Aight yall, so i have changed my mind about carpet, and gotten a lot done. She is fishable as of today, and i have only a few more things i want and/or need to do to her before i will be done. 1. Grind off the angles on the top lip. 2. Add pulls for the hatches. Still thinking the straps with...

Well, I am going to be covering the boat, and i do not plan on fishing a lot in the rain, so i guess i am ready for carpet!

sounds good. Thanks!

This is a great thread. I am definitely going to use the Henrys 263. One question i had is, while reading the label on the Chapco (which is what they have at Lowes here), i saw that it said it not for use on treated or sealed surfaces. So should i put my 3 coats of spar urethane on my plywood...

So I was looking at this outdoor carpet adhesive at Lowes yesterday, and it said not to use it on sealed wood and not to seal the wood. What is the deal here? Do i still seal with 3 coats of spar urethane and then do the carpet???

I got a little bit of work done today. Bow mount trolling motor platform (i hope to get one this spring sometime) I ran out of plywood so for the top i used a piece of 1/2" MDO that i use for my business (Signage) Moved the boat back about a foot on the trailer (Thanks Brine) and adjusted the...

Awesome! That solved the issues rolling around in my headspace!

Carpet. I have never done carpet, but plan to with my build. Do i carpet my deck after its screwed down or before? I assume i do it after its screwed down. I use contact cement??? i guess i will lay the sheet over the whole deck, tuck the edges, etc.... Is there a tutorial on the site for...

I got to do a little bit of work on her this afternoon. I got the front deck cut, and the hatches cut.

i like how the deck lifts at the very front. I may need to do something like that to mount my front trolling motor.

i think a few coats of old paint and a layer of silicone ought to be good enough, right?

Brine, thanks for the tips. I used aluminum 3/16" rivets to attach the joist hangers, but i put clear silicone in the holes for leakage and behind the joist hanger to act as an isolator. The thing about dissimilar metals though is that even stainless and aluminum will make a battery. That got me...

Sweet! That sounds like a plan!

I was thinking something similar. Maybe burning the ends of the strap and grommetting them together, screwing through the grommet into the bottom of the latch doors.

My dad has a nice little 16' Nitro and the hatch pulls are straps with loops at the end. Has anyone done this here? Does anyone know where i would go to get something like this?

i just bought some 6' lengths of continous aluminum piano hinge for $10.70 a piece at Grainger. They have like 4 stores around Atlanta and will have anything shipped to a store for free. Big selection too...

I got a good bit of work done today. I got to thinking about how i want to do my hatches today, and figured out i need some more framing.... I decided to just use a piece of 5/4 decking to redo the transom. It lasted pretty long in there without any sealing from whenever it was last replaced...

So the old bench height is 1.5" taller than the new deck height, the seats are going to end up being 3.5" higher ride height than the old seats. The cool thing about these seats though is that i can just cut the aluminum post down for a lower ride height if it feels unstable.

I ended up getting two of the seats at basspro today. They are really nice for $20 a piece. I ended up splurging on plug in mounts. they are going to be much better than the steel ones, and only like $16 more per mount. i have a hole saw the right size for the inset already (from installing a...