Hello everybody, my name is Robert but my nickname has been WISHBONE sense I joined the Fire Department over 15 years ago. This is our first small boat or JON boat as you will.
I purchased this boat from a co-worker last week for $500. It came with the boat, 3.3 HP Mariner motor, and a 40 Thrust Minn Kota trolley motor. I had a brand new Minn Kota Trolley motor with a Interstate Deep Cell battery.
I know very little about this boat, make, year, and model? I do know the measurements only because I took them myself. It is a 1432 for sure. I looked all over on here as well as the web and could not find a single jon boat that looked just like mine! I did read that jon boats such as mine that come with three bench seats are old and rare, if that is true maybe somebody can pipe in and let me know.
I sure would like to have purchased a much bigger boat but there are good reasons why I had to go with this size. We have a 2007 Niagara Pop Up that we use to go camping and my PILOT tows it with no problem. But when I sold the canoe, I had to get something I could load on top of the pop up so when we go camping we can take it with us.
I am definitely going to do all of the conversions on this boat to make it ours and look great on the water as well as functional.
Things I am going to do is put platforms in, lights, storage boxes, seats, a small live well, and definitely a fish finder and front mount trolley motor.
My dilemma here is of course the width of the boat is 32 inches so the decks are going to have to be low as I have read on here countless times. I also need to make some sort of loading system to put it up on top of the pop up, much to ponder about that one. I have a lot of pictures and will be posting as we go along here. If anybody wants to give feed back as well as throw in their ideas I am up for it.
Just a little background on me. I built race cars when I was young till I went into the FD. I was a professional welder in the military as well as doing all aspects of carpentry work. However I am limited on my welding due to lack of equipment. Long story but my friends drug my welder down the highway ouch.
If anybody knows what I have please chime in, and thanks for looking at our family boat.
Here is the boat at my co-workers house before it was picked up.
Here the boat is at my house and I was able to look over it with a fine tooth picking tool.
Here is the motor which I am going to service completely as well as change out the water cooler.
Surprise surprise, look what I found under that tar of paint. It is one nasty hole that I am going to have to attend to. Looks like I am going to have to take the boat down to my friends shop and tig it up nice and smooth. When I get done with it, it will be stronger then the medal around it.
Ok the boat had this paint on it that was like herculiner but it was not that rough on the bottom. After investigating I started to find all the hidden treasures on the boat. It was full of fiberglass patches on just about every rivet. Not to mention the boat was missing rivets. I purchased the rivet punch tool kit as well as solid buck rivets to redo the entire bottom. I have the compressor and the air hammer tool. I took of every bit of fiberglass and I am going to repaint the entire boat.
Ok here is after using Jaeco paint remover for the third time around and wow there is still paint under that coat too.
We have now purchased the lumber and other accessories needed for the build. Hmmm, I wonder what WISHBONE has in store for the group? Stay tuned, we are in the middle of a complete overhaul!
I purchased this boat from a co-worker last week for $500. It came with the boat, 3.3 HP Mariner motor, and a 40 Thrust Minn Kota trolley motor. I had a brand new Minn Kota Trolley motor with a Interstate Deep Cell battery.
I know very little about this boat, make, year, and model? I do know the measurements only because I took them myself. It is a 1432 for sure. I looked all over on here as well as the web and could not find a single jon boat that looked just like mine! I did read that jon boats such as mine that come with three bench seats are old and rare, if that is true maybe somebody can pipe in and let me know.
I sure would like to have purchased a much bigger boat but there are good reasons why I had to go with this size. We have a 2007 Niagara Pop Up that we use to go camping and my PILOT tows it with no problem. But when I sold the canoe, I had to get something I could load on top of the pop up so when we go camping we can take it with us.
I am definitely going to do all of the conversions on this boat to make it ours and look great on the water as well as functional.
Things I am going to do is put platforms in, lights, storage boxes, seats, a small live well, and definitely a fish finder and front mount trolley motor.
My dilemma here is of course the width of the boat is 32 inches so the decks are going to have to be low as I have read on here countless times. I also need to make some sort of loading system to put it up on top of the pop up, much to ponder about that one. I have a lot of pictures and will be posting as we go along here. If anybody wants to give feed back as well as throw in their ideas I am up for it.
Just a little background on me. I built race cars when I was young till I went into the FD. I was a professional welder in the military as well as doing all aspects of carpentry work. However I am limited on my welding due to lack of equipment. Long story but my friends drug my welder down the highway ouch.
If anybody knows what I have please chime in, and thanks for looking at our family boat.
Here is the boat at my co-workers house before it was picked up.
Here the boat is at my house and I was able to look over it with a fine tooth picking tool.
Here is the motor which I am going to service completely as well as change out the water cooler.
Surprise surprise, look what I found under that tar of paint. It is one nasty hole that I am going to have to attend to. Looks like I am going to have to take the boat down to my friends shop and tig it up nice and smooth. When I get done with it, it will be stronger then the medal around it.
Ok the boat had this paint on it that was like herculiner but it was not that rough on the bottom. After investigating I started to find all the hidden treasures on the boat. It was full of fiberglass patches on just about every rivet. Not to mention the boat was missing rivets. I purchased the rivet punch tool kit as well as solid buck rivets to redo the entire bottom. I have the compressor and the air hammer tool. I took of every bit of fiberglass and I am going to repaint the entire boat.
Ok here is after using Jaeco paint remover for the third time around and wow there is still paint under that coat too.
We have now purchased the lumber and other accessories needed for the build. Hmmm, I wonder what WISHBONE has in store for the group? Stay tuned, we are in the middle of a complete overhaul!