natestep
Well-known member
I just bought a 1985 Rhyan Craft on a home made trailer and it has an old 9.8hp Mercury on it. It has been tucked away in a hay barn for the last five years. I aired up the tires unloaded all the feed sacks, chainsaws, bench vises, and horse tack out of it and drug it out. I took the trailer it had with it and did a paint job on it and replaced the boards and carpet on it. I had a 14' Quachita that I had already fixed up real nice and sold it to a fellow. I am now gonna do the Rhyan Craft. I sanded the outside and it turned off real cold. I decided that I was gonna take it to my Dad's shop cause it is heated. I put it on my old trailer and it didnt fit right at all. I got the boat to his house and got to looking to see what I was gonna have to do to the the boat to ride right. Next thing you know I had the hot wrench fired up and started cutting. The tongue on the trailer was bent and swayed and need fixed any way so it got whacked off. I bought a piece of 3X3X1/8 square tubing and weld it on there for a tongue. Istalled a new 2" coupler, Reese fold up wheel hack, new safty chains, and had to fab a new arm that the front of the boat sets against. I used 2X2X3/16 square tubing for that part then mounted my winch in kinda a neat location. Tomorrow Im headed back to put on the new paint job. I took a bunch of pics but left the camera at the shop. Maybe I will remember it tomorrow night. When I get the trailer done Im starting on the boat. I dont know exactly what Im gonna do yet but Ive looked at a bunch of the boats on here and it unbeliveable what some of these turn out to be. Im a new guy on the site and just want to say that this is the neatest site that I have ever been on.