I'd been looking around for a reasonably priced boat for a while that would be great in ponds and rivers but also be worthy of larger lakes, when one day I stopped by a local marina and found this boat. Knowing it needed a new floor I decided to take the plunge. With only a month till fishing season would be underway my father and I along with the help of one of my buddies got straight to work getting her water worthy.
The boat had not been covered over the winter and a foot of snow was still covering the floor of the boat when I initially looked at it. Uncovering it to find a cracked and saturated floor. Once I got it home letting it dry in the sun for a few days so the floor could dry out. Our original idea involved taking the old floor out while keeping it in one piece to be used as a template.
This plan was a great idea in our minds, until we got to the task. The previous owner decided to use two layers of quarter inch plywood that had completely rooted breaking into pieces as we removed it. The bonus to this day was finding out that the foam under the floor would need to be replaced as well being completely saturated.
A week later I got to the joyous task of removing of all the foam on the bottom of the boat. From everything I had previously read on this site I knew it would be the worst part and just wanted to get it out of the way. In the process I decided to check under the front floor board which was not rooted, to make sure the foam in the front was not also wet. A positive was found that it was still dry and would not have to been replaced.
Looking at the wiring throughout the boat, the majority of the wires had broken due to rust along the another cluster of wires I found in the boat that did not hook up to anything. Deciding just to do all the wiring while the floor is out would be the best option so their is no future problems. Which takes me to the current situation of waiting for the wire in the mail to continue the process, that hopefully will arrive tomorrow....
The boat had not been covered over the winter and a foot of snow was still covering the floor of the boat when I initially looked at it. Uncovering it to find a cracked and saturated floor. Once I got it home letting it dry in the sun for a few days so the floor could dry out. Our original idea involved taking the old floor out while keeping it in one piece to be used as a template.
This plan was a great idea in our minds, until we got to the task. The previous owner decided to use two layers of quarter inch plywood that had completely rooted breaking into pieces as we removed it. The bonus to this day was finding out that the foam under the floor would need to be replaced as well being completely saturated.
A week later I got to the joyous task of removing of all the foam on the bottom of the boat. From everything I had previously read on this site I knew it would be the worst part and just wanted to get it out of the way. In the process I decided to check under the front floor board which was not rooted, to make sure the foam in the front was not also wet. A positive was found that it was still dry and would not have to been replaced.
Looking at the wiring throughout the boat, the majority of the wires had broken due to rust along the another cluster of wires I found in the boat that did not hook up to anything. Deciding just to do all the wiring while the floor is out would be the best option so their is no future problems. Which takes me to the current situation of waiting for the wire in the mail to continue the process, that hopefully will arrive tomorrow....
