I missed her maiden testing friday. The marina has the motor back on all gone thru
tuned up and river tested her. It ran great motor is as smooth as it gets for a big twin engine
and the boat handled well got out of the hole and on plane quickly.
I still have work to do before I take it on the water. This weekend I got the onboard
charger mounted in a bracket we made for it under the front deck, the battery box
installed rivnuts instead of pop rivits to allow removal. Trolling motor mounted and
I also pulled wire from back to front. I only needed wire for bowlight up there
but pulled a 4 wire trailer wire instead cause ya never know. Got the seats poped
in and cover put on sunday just intime for the big storm to roll in with 60mph winds
to test the cover.... It passed
Few pics from the weekend.
Motor on.. The thing only weighs 200# but it just looks larger.
Used some fuel line around the cut out for the new
beefy battery cables to run thru.
New bow light
The trollin motor fit perfectly in the mount so it can
be removed after trips.
The mount we made for the onboard charger. It has
been mounted on wood on the bracket as not to
cause any problems when charging up.
Rivnut. I had saved a bunch of these that were discontinued long ago from work.
Glad I did. The battery box and lid were rivited in by the makers and these will
allow me to be able to get at the charger if needed.
Exciting photo....
New cover.. Fits not like a glove but hard to find a good
cover for old V-bow boats over 16'. Cant afford a custom
cover for it right now so this will do fine. And it survived
the storm.
Most important to me... Gordy seems to like it.
Boat goes back to paint to fix one spot on hydro turf up under front deck and paint motor sometime this week.
