Re: 1975 15' fish boat- number isn't right
Re: 1975 15' fish boat- number isn't right
Hello all, I did get in touch with Sue at Alumacraft. Got information based on serial number, but wait....the specs she said doesn't match what I have, hmmmmnn ...perhaps this stamped number is not from this boat as it is pop rivited onto stern... will try to figure out how you all got pics posted here and will try for the expertise out there to determine. I rebuilt exterior stern motor board and my Yamaha 2 stk 8 horse gets it down the road...
Best part is that the boat floats dry, one rivet seeps a tad, and it catches fish. On Minnesota Opener , Northerns biting in shallow lake I fish, was too tired from cabin work to stay up at night or get up in early am to go after walleyes as that's the only time they bite in this lake...
Now that this one is on the water; I had a very old WI duckpainted vhull lightweight 14' alum that I got the paint off of following many tips here, I went with a commercial stripper (don't go there) that had a lesser amount of MChloride in it, mostly solvents and rubbed down with #2 steel wool and mineral spirts as a final... I throughly rinsed and scrubbed seams with water/soap and hope to avoid the corrosiveness problem...About 90% of paint off exterior, 75% off interior and the thing about aluminum which makes me feel good about the effort is the interior metal looked as good as it must have off the line in the late 50's early 60's. It's an amazing material.