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Not sure on the prop. Still the original one but will probably be swapping over to a 115 SHO because the reverse is gone on this current motor and upon start up it spits clouds of oil out of the...

Yup it lives at my family’s lake house up here and occasionally makes some trips to vermont and the st Lawrence river. Dropped the jake plate 3” and then ran it and made a big difference. Got it all...

Got the garage door pulled off and packed every tool I own into my truck, Hitched the bass boat up and headed north to the Adirondack mountains. Left bright and early too since theirs ALOT of rules...

Finished wiring up the console which was quite the project. Defiantly was something I thought would go a little quicker but the 6 switchs and live well timer and all of that took a good chunk of...

Well its not done yet, but some big strides have been made. But before the update wanted to share a tip that for rolling and tipping alexseal topcoat and probably most other top coats I found 3" foam...

So, after a failed gelcoat attempt decided to go a different rout. I believe the main reasons for the gelcoat failing was due to inadequate temperature and it being applied to thin, because after a...

Well... I have ran into the dreaded gelcoat issues...

So first off the boat was primed with an epoxy primer but very intense surface preparation was used and the issues are consistent over the...

Finally got the console and front of the boat gel coated. Still needs a couple more coats and with the temp being 50-60 need to wait for the first coat to dry since total boat only sells black with...

Got almost the entire cap and decks primed. Need to go back and fair+re prime a bunch of spots along with sanding but its coming alone nice. Used total boat 2 part epoxy primer which does an amazing...

Been sanding away the past couple days, not quite ready for primer but getting close!

Started stripping off the old topside paint and its pretty cool to see the original color. But was wondering on everyones opinion on using gelcoat for below the water line. Im gonna be doing the boat...

Yup titanium 140. I think the 200 model might have AC tig, not sure about the Vulcans but if it does have ac I don't see there being any issues. Only thing is it probably won't have a foot pedal but...

So after our realization that our 14g brute box live well just isn't big enough we decided to have a custom aluminum one made. So proceeded to contact all our local metal shops and not a single one...

Also just a buyers beware...

So far in this project alone we have melted 2 craftsman drills, a craftsman saw zaw, and 2 craftsman shop vacs. Im not saying they are necessarily bad tools because...

Just some more pics of how the progress is going. Got a first coat of epoxy on the 2/3 of the boat and finished up some more electrical stuff. Also started repairing the massive holes in the cap from...

Got the rod locker all turfed and the hatch mounted on its piano hinge. And the cockpit is all screwed and epoxyed into place, wires are all ran, and epoxyed in the entire front deck in place! Now...

After ordering 4 different sets of nav lights finally found some I really love. Tried all of the traditional tear drop and led strips and pucks and found them all to be either cheap looking or just...

Kept working away over the past couple of days. Got all of the insides of the hatches epoxyed and turfed. All of the electric is ran now still will need to hook up everything to the console but the...

Thanks, that's good to know they are defiantly a lot cheaper.

Started the wiring today, and dam is it a lot of wires, 200 ft of duplex alone. Running all tinned copper wire and have all the batteries on the one side of the boat which I feel may cause the boat...

Been working away at the build. Originally had planed out the 14g brute box for the live well but after some considerations decided to get a custom aluminum one welded so we can fit a 22g. Doing a...

Started building the hatches. Doing a dry hatch system with pieces of 3/4 x 1/2" angle iron so their is a half inch lip so you would need over a 1/2" of water on the frames before the hatches could...

Believe the tank is around 20g. Its 26" x 16" off the top of my head.

Thanks for the reply. Really appreciate all the great info, so before I read all this my plan was to run the gas tank on the drivers side next to the bilge and the batteries on the opposite side to...

So under the subfloor I drilled holes and poured extra foam in until it came out the holes. Im assuming you are talking about spraying the foam next to the upper deck? I do still have the original...