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Fishing boat rebuild - before and after - BillyH - 04-23-2014
So last summer I picked up a gently used pontoon to assist in my addiction to hook into some bass out at the lake. I selected this boat mostly due to the price and with the intent to restore it. Over the summer and fall I was able to log about 150 hours in it and had a blast. After a lot of procrastination I finally took the plunge to start the rebuild a few weeks ago. Here are a few picks, i am about 95% done now.
Minus some sun damage the boat was relatively clean. I opted to replace the seating arrangement all together due to it feeling too crowded when you got near the back of the boat. I pretty much only use it to fish so crowded is not good.
I removed a lot of storage space but only to open up deck space for fishing and moving around. I would tend to just horde useless junk in the storage anyhow. Instead of keeping the rear section as one long seat i split it to open up access to the rear of the boat for easier trolling / rear pole management.
I still will be picking up a new bimini top, but this one works fine for now and also have some decals on order.
The paint....holy hell....never painting again. Finally got it where I wanted it but that took a LOT of time and patience. Not to mention a re-stripping and repainting more then once.
Now i just have to bolt on all of my fishing toys.
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Re: [BillyH] Fishing boat rebuild - before and after - wolfs4evr - 04-24-2014
Looks awesome! Congrats on a job well done!
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Re: [BillyH] Fishing boat rebuild - before and after - iamthesmf - 04-24-2014
Very well done. Looks like a fishing boat now.
Did you save any of the seats or the bench?
Looking for some used ones for my boat.
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Re: [iamthesmf] Fishing boat rebuild - before and after - BillyH - 04-24-2014
I still have the fishing seats for the front of the boat, they are in good shape just a couple of spots on the backs with sun damage but the cushions are in excellent shape and barely used. I need to check and see if the bench seat made its way to the dump or not. All of the seats are up in Fallon, NV thats were i did the rebuild. I will be heading that way again in a few weeks and i can probably bring most of it back down if you want them. I'll message you when it gets closer to me heading up there.
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Re: [BillyH] Fishing boat rebuild - before and after - iamthesmf - 04-24-2014
Just looking for the bench seat.
Send me a PM or email me.
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Re: [BillyH] Fishing boat rebuild - before and after - reellittlephish - 04-28-2014
Nice work!
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Re: [BillyH] Fishing boat rebuild - before and after - Erawk - 04-30-2014
Right on, that is a spacious deck to fish from. It looks nice and comfy and the blue looks a lot better, nice choice.
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