1980 King Fisher Fixer' Upper'

[Bigboyitm]

I am in the process of getting the boat put in my name now. My brothers friend gave me this boat last night. The motor is a Johnson 35, he said that the motor cut out on him the last time he took it out. I'm new to the boating world so it will take a while to get it up and going but I can do it. The floor in the back of the boat is rotten a bit, the transom is in good shape though, I have done fiberglass work before so it shouldn't be that hard to fix. There is an issue with getting the trailer registered so I plan on just building a new trailer for it instead of dealing with this one. Sorry for the crappy pics but here they are.

Here is a pic of the floor in the back. You can't really see for all the leaves in the bottom of the boat.

 

[Monte1961]

Re: 1980 King Fisher Fixer' Upper'

Good luck and keep us posted and up to date. Welcome to iboats!

 

[ezmobee]

Re: 1980 King Fisher Fixer' Upper'

That's a nice galvanized trailer. I'd try to figure out a way to register it as salvage or homemade.

 

[Bigboyitm]

Re: 1980 King Fisher Fixer' Upper'

That's a nice galvanized trailer. I'd try to figure out a way to register it as salvage or homemade.

The tongue of the trailer is twisted and the runner boards are all broken. I'm gonna try to find some more galvanized square tubing to fix the tongue and then reweld everything that way it looks home built. There's not too much to this trailer if I had to build one from scratch anyway. But like I said I have to get it in my name first before I do anything, we are going to try to take care of all of the paper tomorrow and hopefully I will know something before long on it.

 

[JARED T]

Re: 1980 King Fisher Fixer' Upper'

my boat looked just like that when i bought it