jigngrub can't remember such a good laugh as when you mentioned "putting tire tread on my hull"; that's my new favorite line when I see someone barreling through a turn
Just getting around to my Green Carp Boat! Unfortunately, it stays full of water much of the time, in my other garage with a big hole in the roof, a low priority... the work you're about to see was done in '98.
Still holding up; pieces of tire to buffer and push hull down, transom gussets etc welded w/stick aluminum, stainless hydrofoil HO-made, truck roll on bedliner for sound deadening and leak proofing, carpet (not shown) is laid in and bolted across the top for easy removal (hasn't been off in awhile
Fancy 2" jackplate; ya might can see the cracked transom clamp? That's why the bolts etc.
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Transom mount trolling motor to bow - 40lb variable speed whisper quiet - es my stealth boat. Have a piece of aluminum diamond plate I lay on the carpet up front and sit on a cooler to pitch fastballs, sliders, and offspeed pitches to Bass