1959 Plaza Craft Semi V done for now?

[mfbear]

Got the inside painted after cleaning up all the burrs from drilling. Started running the wiring for 12 volts to bow for fish finder and possibly a lighter outlet from rear battery and 24 volts from front batteries to transom mounted foot controlled trolling motor through 3/4 pvc pipe, no need for pvc for the Terrova bow mount trolling motor.

 

[mfbear]

Have made some progress slowly but surely I will get it done. I have front deck framing done as well as the deck. I used half inch plywood. Got four hatch openings done so far thanks to Ranchero50 and Gillhunter. They got this tired old brain working again. I have included some photos of how I did the hinges on deck, the hatch lids where done the same way. May not be the best way but it worked for me.

 

[mfbear]

bow cap hinged area accomplished, still have to install power plugs and volt meter

 

[claude]

Looks good. Just got my hands on a '77 Monark.

 

[mfbear]

Well I need to get it out of garage so I can get the truck in as winter is a coming. Due to the lack comments I guess no one cares about this mod, but I will post some more pics anyway.

 

[gillhunter]

Great job on the boat! I like the side storage. It should go with your 18. Much more useful room without a side console.

 

[Kismet]

It is a beautifully thought-out design, nicely executed, and resulted in a handsome craft.

As for lack of feed-back, it may be you just were so ASTONISHING that others were intimidated , or could be you didn't seem to ask any specifics. For whatever reason, you did well, and that does seem like a nice, deep, hull.

Well done

=D> =D> =D>

 

[mfbear]

Thanks guys, the only thing astonishing is I finally got it done. It was a major PITA to get anything to work out like I wanted. There were several times I thought about just shooting it and putting ME out of my misery.

 

[louisvillefisherman]

Great job! The lack of feedback was due to the fact that you were doing so well on your own that there was little left to be said.

I especially like the hydraulic lift assisted storage cover. That is VERY cool. Excellent work.

 

[mfbear]

Found a couple more pic's I did not load, also one of the 3-wheel dolly I came up with several years ago to launch and retrieve the boat from the shoreline. One fishing lake has the boat ramp on one side but I like to camp on the other side, about a 2 mile walk to get camper and boat on same side so I came up with idea. I just push it in by hand and hook a tow strap to chain and pull it out. The third wheel make it possible. Hope it will still work after the added weight. I modified the boat so I could remove all the wood easily if I need to get to the hull, 28 screws and it's back to framework and hull.

 

[Centrarchidae]

That is some really nice work you did on your boat. =D>
I especially like how you bent the angles to get a level location for the decking. What size angle did you use? Did you thru-rivet them to the hull?

 

[mfbear]

Thanks for the comment. I used 1/8" x 1 1/2 angle. I used the Hi-Locs for the front decking also. No one that was available knew how to buck rivets and I really did not want to drill them out if they got shanked. I pre drilled 3/32" holes in angles, put some double back tape on them and checked for level and then back drilled 3/32" holes into sides and used the cleco's to hold them in place while back drilling them and the hull out to 3/16". Your lucky on your boat that you have ribs and not stingers, so if you want more space at transom area you could taper your side boxes.

 

[Gators5220]

Boat looks to be progressing nicely man, gettin her wet and catchin any fish yet?

 

[mfbear]

I did not add an ice breaker during the mod, so it will probably be the end of March of early April before I get to use it. It snowed about a week after I got it out of the garage.