I have been looking for a good aluminum hull split windshield boat to build for a while. Friend of mine had this boat for years and recently purchased a pontoon, and let me have this boat for a song. Good hull, Motor runs but has issues, great trailer, interior....shot! Everything had to go. My plan is to ditch the wood and carpet and go back with aluminum floors and vinyl. My son and I will be using this boat to fish Tournaments here on some of the big water lakes here in North Carolina. Dove into it head first when we got it home, took 3 days to completely gut the boat, plan on replacing everything. Throughout the entire boat the foam was soaked, all of it had to come out, total we removed 300lbs of nasty rotten wood, carpet and foam.