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I must work at the wrong Home Depot lol

Thanks again for all the heads up :-) all these lakes will take some time to fish lol, I am looking for one this weekend that wont be heavy with boats, one other OFC'er suggested one I may try, I like to get away from it all so to speak :-)

Thank you so much for the heads up I think the big thing is take the time to go for a drive without the boat on some of these old roads with the trusty gps lol

Walleye, pike, lakers and specs is what I am mainly looking for pretty much anything goes but they are my fave's and crappy but I have not bin out for them in years

Just moved to north bay and I am looking for some smaller remote lakes to fish that are still accesable via trailer/boat, any help would be great, I bin out in Callander and the shore by the docks on Nip but just looking for a few more remote areas and no I dont want your secret hot spots lol. Pm me if ya dont want to post it out here and I am more then willing to take my boat/truck and you along Nelson

Lol Irish, that junk to neg haha dont know what I was thinking there and thanks SlowPoke

I have a 20hp mariner tiller with new coils and wires but sometimes I have spark sometimes I dont at all yesterday on the lake it seem to run great but low on power its a A701409 and here are the ohm results, any suggestions would be amazing trigger 760 stator low 142.6 high 3100 coil junk to neg .4 on both But I have no visual spark at all and none the old fasion hold onto way either lol, any ideas?

I was getting 14.2 trimmed out but I do think its pitched a bit high, just curious what other people where getting out of a similar boat, thank you Nelson

Question for you all, I have a 15.5 old princecraft with a 4' beam, I rebuilt it has 1/2" ply floors with ribbing and 3/4" seats a large deep cycle battery, 30lbs thrust elect and say 100 lbs of gear + 170lbs of me, with my 20hp mariner what speed do you figure I would get out of it? Nelson

Used to race I.M.P.B.A and ran cars for awhile I used to fly out of araura flying club, for boats I ran mainly riggers and some vee's, i am playing with a dragonfly v.4 now with not much luck lol I need a new tail boom now as for planes my fave was the scamp but I have flown quite a few trainers to mid.

Another thought cut plywood half moons for the fron and back and line it with pond liner? I could get scraps from work likely, any thoughts on that way?

I would likely get someone to bend it if I go that way, as for the weight I would box it in some I dont keep to many fish so I dont need a huge one I would like to keep it to approx 15gals so basicaly it equals another me in the boat lol Nelson

What about just lining my middle seat with fiberglass? there is a vee cut out in the front and back at the bottom of the seat for water to go trough, so I was thinking place a 1" pvc pipe on the bottom so water can get through and in the middle of that pipe put a tee straight up that I can pull out to drain the livewell plus the water can still get through if any gets in the boat, what do you think? Nelson

lol "Yeah,2 PFD,s" the undersode of the casting deck and both seat will have it worked in, misfish I am guessing that you dropped the livewell into the seat area? or did you build it into it? Nelson

Thanks for the heads up Irishfield I will check it out I was just thinking I have a bag of cloth here from my dad so I was thinking line the middle seat area to make a livewell lol Nelson

Love the responces, I think the tube idea for support is great I was having an issue sorting that out and I will go with that idea for surre, I was thinking about storage box along one side that is great and for the livewell Idea I was thinking about foaming it in and fiberglass a livewell into it, anyone seen fiberglassed in livewells? Nelson

Another shot of it

So I am still trying to bore you people with my project boat lol, anyways I want a platform on this and higher the better for fly flishing and sight fishing I am thinking of placing 3/4" ply right on the top with a few reinforcements off the floor, again the boat is 15.5 x 5.5 whats your thoguhts on this?

I am looking at getting a fish finder for my project boat and would like some advice I do all around fishing for quite a few species and some big water, the gps for navigation is great so I am looking for a heads up on the units listed or if you know of another one in the price range let me know bonuses or drawbacks Thanks Nelson

So my girl has decided for christmas to get me a gps I am looking for one 200 and under any suggestions the main thing I would like it for is navigation on the water for new lakes to avoid obstacles any suggestions? Nelson

Some more update pics on the patch and sealing

Shooting glasses, yellow is what I wear they also help bring in the light

Thanks guys :-) I have done tons of searching with no real indepth articles so to speak, I tried doing a search on here various ways with no success as to finding the post by Karem :-( If anyone knows where it is :-) Hometownhandyman I have seen that one and its not to bad and gave me a few insights :-) Nelson

Anyone care to share some pictures of there aluminium boats they have converted or changed the layout? I am curious of the pics as to help me out in the layout of my project Nelson

Yup the stuff is very nasty and I should have said use all available ppe's, I am not sure if I am going to repaint just the top side or just the bottom yet, I do like the aluminium look but I think the bottom what I will do is strip it right down to bare then 2 part epoxy primer then my bud has some left over marine acrylic enamel to go over top also all that should help seal the bottom