The Boat

Moved to the inside of the boat got the lights all working radio working Fish/depth finder all hoked up even put the original volt gauge i found in the boat back in and hooked up... Went with some swivel bucket seats it gives me much more room to move around the boat and i can swivel so no need for the sofa sized seats it had in them..
Just need to level them out some how...

New Seats



Old Seats

looking good Boss is it gonna be the official S.B.O charter boat

Got a few things done on the motor that i found was wrong the first owner i guess went to replace the starter and never put it in the correct way and i kind of know why F-ING pain in the ass but i got it done.....
Also the electronic choke was not working got that all fixed also..
Playing with the idle and almost have it to what i want ..

Quick video of the motor running better then it has in years I'm sure....

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Going to re-deck the floor next and replace all the carpet on the inside to something like a Gray or darker color.
also have a idea for the back half of the boat but wont get in to details till i do it...

Dang Capt. It's almost a new boat now. You are doing it all the right way to it seems.

smitty wrote:Going to re-deck the floor next and replace all the carpet on the inside to something like a Gray or darker color.
also have a idea for the back half of the boat but wont get in to details till i do it...

if your gonna re-do the deck, dont carpet it..... texture it to a non slip surface and leave it fiber glass for easy cleaning.......

Redeck do you have some soft spots....??

Oldsalts wrote:Redeck do you have some soft spots....??

Why yes i do and my plan is to for now just wood over it as i dont plan to keep this boat more then a year or two so i dont want to get to crazy with ripping out the old flooring i guess...

not working on it today its just to dam hot.......

Back to work on the boat...how about a new layer of flooring and some new carpet?????????????yea baby she is looking good in side and out now....

Before




After

got the back done for now.......

looking great wayta go like night and day

looks great Smitty
great job

nice smitty!!!!........just in time for the fluke torny.......between you and bluefish {jeff} & stevel

smitty boat looks amazing ...you should be very proud of yourself....GREAT JOB...

Wow...Looks like a new boat. Is there anything you can't do? LOL Great job Smitty.

not sure what to do next other then the shakedown in the water but cant do that till i get the trailer registered and hope that will be this week....
kind of a little scared to take it out lol "cold feet"......

when i had my boats i had tow boat us plan free towing when ever needed not sure if they cover
your area but worth looking into . one tow usually costs more than the plan. its like AAA for boats

Just when i was thinking i was ready to float the boat i went over it one more time with a fine tooth comb and realized i never tested the motor really at hi rpm for more then a few seconds.Come to find out if i ran the motor more then idle speed the bulb would go soft and motor would bog down.I did some digging around and found a tiny little barb fitting with nothing on it so i started to look for its other end the hose and found it tucked away out of sight.This hose it what keeps the fuel flowing lol hooked it up and cleaned out the carbs one last time and she really runs great hi rpm and low rpm.....Its really mind blowing to me that this boat was a $400 purchase and only took a few dollars to get her ready and up to snuff.......

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fish factor wrote:when i had my boats i had tow boat us plan free towing when ever needed not sure if they cover
your area but worth looking into . one tow usually costs more than the plan. its like AAA for boats

ha ha ah thats why i went back over it i keep having the fear of it crapping out on me and its big $$$$$$$$$ for a tow lol

what was it per year for that tow boat thing

I shouldn't say this but what the hell.

Capt. make sure you have a waterproof bag with all the emergency phone numbers on a list so anybuddy can find them and call in case they have to.

i think it was about $50 i know it was under $100

Awesome i just got back all the paperwork from the guy i bought the boat from in order to register the trailer......
The trailer had no title and was registered as homemade and thats fine but in order to do it now as homemade its like jumping threw hoops of fire naked covered in gas.......
I asked the lady at DMV and she told me that the reason its so hard to do now it cause everyone abused the system and now in order to stop it them make it dam near imposable to register a homemade trailer but if you have the old registration its a snap so thats what i got plus him to fill out a simple form..
Now just need to get it notarized on Monday and back to DMV i go...

sweet, cant wait to see pix of its 1st voyage!

Just put together a tool box for just the boat......Its nice having so many tools that you can just grab this and that and hey i might use this and toss it in a box for just the boat.... :..............