Another project boat

Post by **wevans** » February 11th, 2005, 8:42 am

My nephew and I have been working this one for the last couple months

it's a 22 foot Fish and Ski Barge. We have around $3500 in it so far "including $2000 for the motor"

We hope to get it wet on Sunday

Our two girls in the boat

Sorry bout the quality of the pics

I gotta get a better camera

Post by **tin can** » February 11th, 2005, 8:52 am

Will this be your new trolling rig?

Post by **Atticus** » February 11th, 2005, 8:52 am

I like how it looks, the lines and stuff

Post by **wevans** » February 11th, 2005, 9:00 am

Trolling, flats fishin and bottom fishing on the right days

That 115 should get it up pretty good also

It has lots of room inside to, I'm waiting till we get the inside finished before I show that to ya'll

Post by **Sir reel** » February 11th, 2005, 9:24 am

Looks like a good blend ......now the real issue.... WHATCHA GONNA CALLIT

I see a BBFN survey coming.... NAME WEVANS BOAT

Post by **wevans** » February 11th, 2005, 9:35 am

HAHAHA, it's my nephews boat "I just got the most money in it right now"

so he getts ta name it

I will use it a lot, so I don't mind putting a few thousand into it

Post by **qoutrage** » February 11th, 2005, 10:22 pm

Nice looking rig, Wevans- ya did good. Oh, and a finer looking crew, ya got there.

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » February 12th, 2005, 10:36 am

Good deal..

Post by **wevans** » February 13th, 2005, 2:55 pm

Do SCALDED DOWG mean anything ta ya'll

That's how she run

39mph on the GPS and we aint got the trim hooked up and running the prop that come with it

it takes about 20 foot ta be on plane and 5500 RPM at WOT "figure we need a 22 or 23 pitch instead of the 20 pitch we got now"! only "unexpected problem" is we found two cracks in the hull, about half way down and on opposite sides off one another

IDEAS ON THE BEST WAY TA FIX EM

Post by **Chalk** » February 13th, 2005, 4:33 pm

Where? Pics....

Post by **wevans** » February 13th, 2005, 4:39 pm

About center of the boat, on the bottom, either side of the semi-vee

no pics right now

Post by **Chalk** » February 13th, 2005, 4:43 pm

Where is the gas tank? Cracks, are they all the way through....Has it sat on a trailer for an extended time?

Post by **Aucilla** » February 13th, 2005, 5:26 pm

Nice lookin' rig! I hope ya get the cracks figured out. This is a good place to do it!

Post by **wevans** » February 13th, 2005, 6:58 pm

The tank is under the center console, the cracks are about a foot in front of were the tank ends and they both are about a foot and a half long and the reason we started looking for a hole was the amount of water in the bilge after only about 30 minutes on the water "several gallons"

O ne looks to have been worked on before

Post by **Chalk** » February 13th, 2005, 7:37 pm

A picture would be nice....but you can fix it, some polyester resin, 1808 biaxial fabric (1808 is 18 oz biaxial with a matt), then gel coat....It's not gonna be fun....

I prefer epoxy over polyester, but to regelcoat you have to buy a special primer that's expensive...so polyster is the most logical choice...

http://www.classicmako.com/projects/xshark/bw6.htm