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Not to be out-done by my partner, I too came home with a boat yesterday. Not in quite as many pieces as Mark's, but close.




Someone cut the gunnels off most of the boat. And it's got damage on 3 of the four corners. My wife said even if someone gave it to me, I got ripped off.



I told her she had no imagination.



It's a couple feet shorter than Mark's old boat, but it's just as wide. We'll just have to make more trips to dump fish.



It's gonna take me longer to fix the repairs than it's gonna take me to rig it for bowfishing.



But it's got 4 good seats. I think it'll work.

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Oh yeah, baby. It looks a lot better in your driveway than it did inours. ;)

Just remember Mike (Kaskaskia Bigheads) took that beautiful boat out on the river with a gillion batteries and a crew and filled it with fish.... and he's still alive.:D

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Wow.....I forgot what it looked like.

I'll go get busy now.

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Tell Dina, I think she's right! :D

I can't wait to see it in the water. (OK ...ON...the water would be better.)

I gotta agree with Christine also. It does look better in your driveway. [:-]

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I see you've joined theRedneck Yacht Club.:D

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a diamond in the rough. It has potential some TLC and you will be ready to go. It wont be pretty but it will look good with a few hundred fish in it and thats all that matters.

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Uh, yeah. :eek:

Hey, I know!
Pull it behind the one Mark is making and use it as a fish-bucket-dinghy-thingy. You'll just have to throw them a bit farther than usual to them in.
:D

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I see a yacht Steve ;)youll do fine buddy it will be a fish slayer....

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You must have good welding skills; good luck and post a pic of the 'after.'

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I got it all cleaned out and demoed today, and I got some key pieces of wood milled and ready to go on. I think I have everything I need to run the electric and even put an elevated deck on it. The biggest problem I have is that my hot-water tank in my house is going out and I need one full day to replace it. A day I don't have. And we still don't have an outboard for it. We're really gonna need one on Rend.


Nope, no welding skills at all, at least as far as aluminium is concerned. I can weld, but never got good enough to weld aluminium. No, it's all gonna be fixed with wood, wood-glue, some urethane-glue and bolts, nuts, washers and deck-screws. Billy and Luke are right, it's gonna be a great little bowfishing rig. It's hard to see underneath all that ugly, but it's there. I just hope I have enough time to 'bring it out'.

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PROGRESS!!

Got it torn apart and cleaned up...



New transom and hardware..



Got the left-gunnel clamped up....


...glued and bolted.





Over 2" of new oak.



Nice curve. I think the oak pulled the aluminium out perfect.



What a pain to do by yourself! I didn't end up wearing as much glue and silicon as I thought I would, but it took a while getting it all lined up. Now I have to do the other side and tie them together with some pieces on the front. Maybe next week I'll get it finished, since it's gonna rain and I have to work some. I'll keep everyone updated, just because I have nothing better to do. :D

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Looking good Steve! I'm kind of impressed.

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Looks real nice! Now if it sinks, the oak should have enough flotation to save you.

Why again can't we use that boat in the background?

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I'm glad to see someone else has the same project going that I do. I didn't take before pictures because I really don't want to remember how it looked before I started. We'll just say if you ever want a family picture all we have to do is get our two boats together cause I'm pretty sure I have it's twin. Luckily I know a guy that welds that soft shiney stuff for a living cause he put 15 welds on the ugly thing for me. Now it's painted and about half way through the decking process. I've having trouble deciding how much is too much since it's just going to get covered in slime and blood anyway. Good Luck!!!

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Twins... that's funny. Was your's flat black too?

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oh nnnnooooo, they were all out of flat black ... so mine is gloss black.. lol.

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try that again I'm new to this whole thing

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That thing reallyIS coming along.
No Rend Lake for you guys though, eh?

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He's giving it his all, but I think Bowman's taking one for the team this tournament, I'll be there.

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I'll be there in spirit. I could have gotten the boat ready, if I had 5 more hours of daylight yesterday, but that's fine. Besides, we never solved our outboard-problem.

Both Mark and I will have our boats done for the next shoots scheduled.Personally, I'd rather shoot off Mark's boat, but if we do something for the club, or ourLeague-Night-thing, we'll have 2 more boats to bring. All the better for club's image.

Now Mark, Chris and I will have to find us some Illinois Bowfishers decals to decorate them with.

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Got the gunnels done!



I've got 2-4" screws and 2-3" screws in each corner. They're pretty strong.




And I've got all new wood in the bow.



I put three coats of spar-varnish on everything and I plan on putting at least one more coat.
Now I have to figure out how I want to build my deck. I still have to put a piece of oak on the top of the gunnels andI still have to trim off all those bolts, but that's just details. The hard part is over (I think...).

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Looking awesome!

But does it float? ;):D

I'm kinda surprized you didn't use carriage bolts down the side. Were they more expensive?

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It's really looking good Steve.

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Thanks Christine.

No Kendall, I just wanted to crank on them to get them really tight and I couldn't get carriage bolts tight enough without them turning. The ones that are on it I bought by accident and I ran out of the hex-bolts.

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Steve,

Do you realize you discovered a new element? Aluma-oak! Chemical symbol 'Ao' will now be added to the periodic table.

Judd

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Wow! What an inspiration. My dad has a 11' (I think) john boat. I've been thinking about trying this whole bow fishing thing out. His boat is in a little better shape though.;)Can't wait to see the finished product.

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Hey Ducsauce. Welcome the this side of the site. This is where I spend my summers. ;)

You've got to givebowfishing a try. It's the most fun you'll ever have with a bow in the off-season.

I was having a problem putting my cap on the gunnels, and I figured out that I had set them wrong. I had to plane them down so they were more level. That's alot of planing, let me tell you.





Now everything's ready for my cap and then lights and finishing touches. I have 100' of 1"-square tubing coming for my deck-frame. I wanted to do the whole thing in wood, but I'm worried about longevity, and I didn't want a wood-frame failing on me in the middle of the night, on the middle of a lake somewhere. I agreed to make a friend of mine some legs for his kitchen-table and he got me the tubing. Now I have to help Mark finish his boat so he'll help me weld up my new deck-frame. It's gonna be just like his old one/Chris' new one. I'm almost at the home-stretch now.


Just keeping you posted...

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P.S.

After Kendall's comment about the bolts, I replaced them all with carriage-bolts. And I routed a round-over on the bottom of the gunnels all the way around.

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cool.

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I appreciate that. I'm definitely going to give it a shot. Seems like a lot of fun. Great looking progress on the boat. Keep it up.

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Steve, I got a couple of BAA Decals if you want. let me know

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awesome job man!! you are a talented wood worker. lots better than me 4 sure. I have been playin carpenter at the cabin on the ohio and it aint for me. i can cut metal within .0002 and weld with the best even aluminum. but not wood

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That's your problem Slim, stop trying to weld wood. ;)

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thanks slim. Wat till it's done. It'll be funtional, which is most important. But it won't look too bad either.


In light of recent events, I'll have to decline. But thanks alot for the offer.
I've got one picked out that has a little boy peeing on something. I'll show you when I get it.

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Steve, that looks so neat. I wish I had your talents. Oh, and if I didn't mention it, what a great score board that you made for us to be used at our events, like the one we just had down at Rend where we finished ahead of Christine again. :D Yea, I know, I'm getting a lot of milage out of thatbut you knowshe's noteven returning fire, NO FUN.

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Rob,

It's notthat she isn't returning fire so much as she's busy building "the bomb".

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Thanks alot Rob and Slim. That's the least I can do for the club, and I'm glad you guys like it and appreciate it.

And if I were you I'd run that win into the ground. I'm sure she would...lol!
And Jason's right; he knows Christine well enough. You know it's comin'.

Okay, I got 'er done! At least as far as the repairs and getting it sea-worthy.

I PRESENT TO YOU MY LITTLE WOODY!!



Spot for the bow-light;



Spot for stern-light;



finished corners;



All those plugs hide 1 5/8" deck-screws. There shouldn't be any rusting screws to break off down the road. I made it as maintenance-free as I could.



The finish is good ole spar-varnish with a U.V. inhibitor, so the sun won't beat up the wood too fast.



It's all sea-worth. Now I have to run the lights and makeit legal. I still need a couple tubes of J-B Weld or plumber's putty to fill some cracks here and there, but once it's done I'm gonna give it a $35.00 paint-job and decorate with some nice decals, first of which will be a club-insignia. I found a web-site that'll make pretty much anything you want. And they're not that expensive at all. If you guys like it, I'll order a bunch for us and we can plaster them all over our boats.

I HAVE A BOAT!!!

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Great job! I can't wait to see it in action.

Name?

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I'm calling it My Little Woody.

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VERY NICE !!!
She's beautiful, ...at least the wood part. ;)

Can I help you cover the wood with the non-skid carp-egg residue finish ??