Got Started on the Boat - Printable Version

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RE: Got Started on the Boat - meancuznalfy - 06-15-2020

Some new spark plugs and new light bulbs in the trailer and she's ready to go. Turned up the idle a bit, threw in a battery and the old girl fired right up. Be in the lake Wednesday weather permitting.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - wiperhunter2 - 06-16-2020

(06-15-2020, 11:25 PM)meancuznalfy Wrote: Some new spark plugs and new light bulbs in the trailer and she's ready to go. Turned up the idle a bit, threw in a battery and the old girl fired right up. Be in the lake Wednesday weather permitting.

Good luck, hope it runs good on the water.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - meancuznalfy - 06-16-2020

I'm sure it will, already runs better than last year.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - meancuznalfy - 06-25-2020

Finally kicked the girl out of the yard the other day, neighbor was very happy with all the new upgrades.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - Kent - 06-25-2020

Looks like it needed some TLC.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - meancuznalfy - 06-26-2020

Yea, it did, some new seats, new carpet, motor cover fixed and a set of plugs, helped it out quite a bit.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - wiperhunter2 - 06-26-2020

Looks good, I bet you neighbor is glad you are so handy with projects like that.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - Kent - 06-26-2020

I cringe every time I see a boat parked by someone's house without any type of cover on it.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - meancuznalfy - 06-27-2020

Yea, no cover doesn't do any of the interior any good, as was the case here, still needs a bit of upholstery work on the front cushions. Seats came with the boat when he bought it, I picked up some cheap indoor/outdoor carpet for the rest and used a deck sealer for all the new wood, refiberglassed the corners on the motor cover to strengthen them back up, fixed a couple cup holders that were gone. Did all for a little money, but just a cheap cover would have saved that money for better things. I believe he told me it sat for 7-8 years before he got, hopefully we finally got all the bugs worked out in the last year. Now just need to get a top ordered.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - meancuznalfy - 06-27-2020

(06-26-2020, 01:03 AM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: Looks good, I bet you neighbor is glad you are so handy with projects like that.

He is, he's totally happy with it. I know a guy quoted him around $1200 to do what I did for a couple hundred. Plus he's really happy with the fillet board that I made for him this winter.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - wiperhunter2 - 06-28-2020

Wow, you saved him a ton of money, may to go, you are for sure a great neighbor. By the way, do you have pic that fillet board you made him? Just curious what kind of wood you made it from.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - meancuznalfy - 06-28-2020

I just make them out of pine, using scrap pieces of wood from other projects.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - wiperhunter2 - 06-28-2020

(06-28-2020, 06:24 PM)meancuznalfy Wrote:

I just make them out of pine, using scrap pieces of wood from other projects.

OK, looks just like the one I use to for filleting walleye.

RE: Got Started on the Boat - meancuznalfy - 06-28-2020

Yep, I had a eagle claw wood board that split and warped, I used it as a template to make mine.