Fly_Guy
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I all ready posted some of these pics in the boating forum, but that I would start a thread for the whole project. I've been looking for a project boat to work on this winter. I found this boat and trailer on Craigslist a few weeks ago and had to have it. I'm planning on using the boat mainly for duck hunting, but it will have a lot of fishing too. The bill of sale that I recieved on the boat say it's a PBC (Perfect boat company), can anyone tell me anything about it?
Here is the boat when I brought it home.
I knew the transom was shot on it when I bought it, so that was the first thing I started. I removed the back aluminum deck from the boat, grounded a few welds off and removed the existing transom.
Once I had the deck off the amount of durt under there was unreal, so alittle time with a dust pan and the shop vac and I had it all cleaned out.
Next was removing the front deck. I was thinking about just leaving it in, but the existing aluminum was full of holes were seats and other things were screwed to it. Plus I thought it would be nice to have some storage under the front deck.
The holes around the eyelet look stressed, so I removed it. There is some cracking around the holes, so my plan is going to attach the new one to something that will spread the load across the bow.
Right now I'm planning on putting a rear deak back on the boat, but a little smaller then what was there. I'm trying to maximize the amount of room for decoys, but still have something that I can cast off of. I'm still on the fence with what I'm going to do on the front of the boat, but I'm sure it will come to me.
Here is the boat when I brought it home.
I knew the transom was shot on it when I bought it, so that was the first thing I started. I removed the back aluminum deck from the boat, grounded a few welds off and removed the existing transom.
Once I had the deck off the amount of durt under there was unreal, so alittle time with a dust pan and the shop vac and I had it all cleaned out.
Next was removing the front deck. I was thinking about just leaving it in, but the existing aluminum was full of holes were seats and other things were screwed to it. Plus I thought it would be nice to have some storage under the front deck.
The holes around the eyelet look stressed, so I removed it. There is some cracking around the holes, so my plan is going to attach the new one to something that will spread the load across the bow.
Right now I'm planning on putting a rear deak back on the boat, but a little smaller then what was there. I'm trying to maximize the amount of room for decoys, but still have something that I can cast off of. I'm still on the fence with what I'm going to do on the front of the boat, but I'm sure it will come to me.