jkbirocz
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Well as long time members of this fine site, it was only typical of Captain Ahab and I not to make good examples of ourselves and take plenty of pics of his boat while we are working on it. I cannot be blamed as I cannot find my battery charger for my camera, but I did finally take some pics with my phone. We started a few weeks ago with making a new transom and working on the frame of the decking. We are using 1"x1" and 2"x2" angle for the frame with lots of diamond plate and flat stock mixed in. We have pretty much been winging it and have been going along with trial and error. We will be left with a huge front deck, a low deck in the middle and a deck in the back.
Throughout the build so far I have ended up bleeding by the end of each workday, the highlight was me almost taking my pinky off with a cuttoff wheel on my grinder. It's healing back fine and is almost completely closed up after less than two weeks, so all is well. It has been slow going fighting the weather and Captain's 2yr old running around hiding tools and whatnot, but we are getting there. My hopes are that the decking will be cut and ready to go on by next week, with only electrical stuff to worry about after that.
We have decided to leave outside of the boat the original color and nice and beat up and just make a sleeper of a bass machine :lol:
While it may not look much better when we are done, it will definately fish a lot better than only bench seats to stand on, and two transom trolling motors. It will now have two rear and a bowmount foot control for electric only lakes.
Needless to say these pics suck, but with the weather getting nice it is hard enough to work on the boat rather than fish, let alone take the time to take pics. Of course we didn't take any before pice either #-o
Rear deck frame and part of console
Part of front deck frame, and start of battery tray
A little more of front deck fram and battery tray
Finished battery tray
Complete tray and front deck frame
Throughout the build so far I have ended up bleeding by the end of each workday, the highlight was me almost taking my pinky off with a cuttoff wheel on my grinder. It's healing back fine and is almost completely closed up after less than two weeks, so all is well. It has been slow going fighting the weather and Captain's 2yr old running around hiding tools and whatnot, but we are getting there. My hopes are that the decking will be cut and ready to go on by next week, with only electrical stuff to worry about after that.
We have decided to leave outside of the boat the original color and nice and beat up and just make a sleeper of a bass machine :lol:
While it may not look much better when we are done, it will definately fish a lot better than only bench seats to stand on, and two transom trolling motors. It will now have two rear and a bowmount foot control for electric only lakes.
Needless to say these pics suck, but with the weather getting nice it is hard enough to work on the boat rather than fish, let alone take the time to take pics. Of course we didn't take any before pice either #-o
Rear deck frame and part of console
Part of front deck frame, and start of battery tray
A little more of front deck fram and battery tray
Finished battery tray
Complete tray and front deck frame