Burntcorn55
Cadet
- Joined
- Jun 2, 2016
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- 6
First time poster, long time viewer of the forum!!
Looks like I'm going to give this restoration thing a try! I bought a 1990 Skeeter SD80 from a pawn shop about 2yrs ago for around 1500. Motor ran and all seemed well and fine, especially for my first rig! Well, low and behold about 4 months goes by and I crack the top poston... Great!! Couldn't have happened at better timing as my wife and I were looking to purchase a house. So on the back burner it goes... Well we get the house and the luxury of having somewhere to store it in a shed was gone with our new place. Then comes our new addition, my son! Long story short, I'm now at the point to get this thing rolling!!
After sitting neglected for so long I did some inspecting. Transom, stringer, and foam soaked!! So I pull out the tools and get to separating the cap. So that's where I am now! Luckily with my job, I'm pretty much off the whole summer. My plans as of right now is to replace everything from the hull up. Once that's done, add much needed storage compartments, update console, and re-gel. I'll try anything once just to say I did!! I'll post and update as much as possible too! Any pointers are appreciated!
The day I bought it
top cap removed
Rot, Rot, Rot!
Looks like I'm going to give this restoration thing a try! I bought a 1990 Skeeter SD80 from a pawn shop about 2yrs ago for around 1500. Motor ran and all seemed well and fine, especially for my first rig! Well, low and behold about 4 months goes by and I crack the top poston... Great!! Couldn't have happened at better timing as my wife and I were looking to purchase a house. So on the back burner it goes... Well we get the house and the luxury of having somewhere to store it in a shed was gone with our new place. Then comes our new addition, my son! Long story short, I'm now at the point to get this thing rolling!!
After sitting neglected for so long I did some inspecting. Transom, stringer, and foam soaked!! So I pull out the tools and get to separating the cap. So that's where I am now! Luckily with my job, I'm pretty much off the whole summer. My plans as of right now is to replace everything from the hull up. Once that's done, add much needed storage compartments, update console, and re-gel. I'll try anything once just to say I did!! I'll post and update as much as possible too! Any pointers are appreciated!
The day I bought it
top cap removed
Rot, Rot, Rot!