micks110
Master Chief Petty Officer
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- Sep 14, 2009
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Well I finally got the boat two weeks ago and started to pull the deck apart to find that the stringers are rotted and the transom is rotted as well. A majority of my time though these last two weeks has been on my 40X20 uninsulated garage. It was a reck before but now it is more up to par. I just have to install my double 55 gallon barrel stove and it'll be ready to do the more serious work on the boat over the winter months hear in eastern PA. I got the boat from my neighbor for free. It came with a 1961 evinrude starflyte unicharger motor that was top of their line back in 1961. I just built my motor mount and I am at the point now where all I have to do is take off the motor before I can remove the top of the boat. After the motor is off I will be building a cradle for the boat so I can get it off the trailer(the floor is really soft because of the rotted stringers.
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Here is a picture of the floor. The stringers look ok on top but the bottom of the boards are all rotted and soft. Towards the back of the boat the stringer is so bad that the trailer rollers are pushing up the floor. I'm not going to remove and more of the floor until I have it off the trailer and on its cradle.
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I removed all the aluminum rub rail- there were about 100 rivets that had to be drilled out, and there were a bunch of screws as well. I plan on re-using the rub rail but getting rid of the black paint that is on it.
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I have taken off everything else including all the cables, wiring, mounts, etc. All that has to be done before the top can come off is remove the 4 motor mounts, and remove the motor.
More pictures will be coming and I plan to do this throughout the whole process no matter how long it takes.
I have learned a ton on this site over the past 3-4 months and I want to thank everyone whose posts I have been reading up on in advance.
I am limited to how much time I can spend on the boat because I am a teacher and I have a wife and two young children. So my time on the boat is usually from 8-midnight if the wife lets me out!
Thanks again and I hope you enjoy my journey and can help me out along the way.
Prior to reading up on this this site I have no prior knowledge of anything boat related other than I like to fish(just not on a boat up to this point). I am somewhat handy and I like projects (if you couldn't tell by seeing this boat).
I plan on having this boat back to like it was or as close as I can get it where it was back in 1962 on a somewhat modest budget.
I love the look of this boat and it kinda fell in my lap when my neighbor decided to get rid of it. So i plan on making it mine and using it to fish and take the kids out on a lake tubing and having some fun on it.
Here we go!
here is the link to all my pics on my photobucket account
http://s816.photobucket.com/albums/zz86/micks110/?start=all
Here is a picture of the floor. The stringers look ok on top but the bottom of the boards are all rotted and soft. Towards the back of the boat the stringer is so bad that the trailer rollers are pushing up the floor. I'm not going to remove and more of the floor until I have it off the trailer and on its cradle.
I removed all the aluminum rub rail- there were about 100 rivets that had to be drilled out, and there were a bunch of screws as well. I plan on re-using the rub rail but getting rid of the black paint that is on it.
I have taken off everything else including all the cables, wiring, mounts, etc. All that has to be done before the top can come off is remove the 4 motor mounts, and remove the motor.
More pictures will be coming and I plan to do this throughout the whole process no matter how long it takes.
I have learned a ton on this site over the past 3-4 months and I want to thank everyone whose posts I have been reading up on in advance.
I am limited to how much time I can spend on the boat because I am a teacher and I have a wife and two young children. So my time on the boat is usually from 8-midnight if the wife lets me out!
Thanks again and I hope you enjoy my journey and can help me out along the way.
Prior to reading up on this this site I have no prior knowledge of anything boat related other than I like to fish(just not on a boat up to this point). I am somewhat handy and I like projects (if you couldn't tell by seeing this boat).
I plan on having this boat back to like it was or as close as I can get it where it was back in 1962 on a somewhat modest budget.
I love the look of this boat and it kinda fell in my lap when my neighbor decided to get rid of it. So i plan on making it mine and using it to fish and take the kids out on a lake tubing and having some fun on it.
Here we go!
here is the link to all my pics on my photobucket account
http://s816.photobucket.com/albums/zz86/micks110/?start=all
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