Re: Easy Craigs List repair with Duct tape or a welder!
My first bass bote was a 16 ft Quachita aluminum jon bote. Paid a grand for it with a 20 merc and forward stick steering on it. Ran it for 3 years, hard, as I soon found out I could win bass tournaments by blowing over brush lines and beaver dams to get to the pools on the other side.
Most emergency repairs, the worst of which was a 6 inch rip from getting washed up onto the broken granite rip rap by an idiot in a 3 story diesel powered monster boat, were made with bath tub caulk. That was back when it was acetic acid cure, and the fumes would make your eyelashes fall off. We'd drag it out onto the trailer to get the hole out of the water, blob on a patch, smooth it out with whatever was handy, and as soon as it formed a tack, throw the boat back into the water. By the time I made a quick trip to the porta-john, it was good to go.
Sold it for a grand as is, and had guys fighting over it. One offered me a bonus if I would stiff the other that had spoken for it.
LOL
John
