Last December, I had some things happen that forced me to temporarily close off many parts of my life. *I won't go into details. *One thing I had to give up was boating as well as this forum.

But all those things are past me now and I am back to working on the V!! *And, I am back here!!

I am now in the process of doing a cap off restoration.

I will start a thread in the repairs forum soon.

I know you guys like pictures so I'll post the first ones here.

This is what I started with.





I used the boat about 25 hours last summer. *It ran OK. *Always fiddling with the sea drive to get it running right. *But then I started to notice alot of water in the bilge. *So after the season was over I took it out and found this:



The transom was rotten. *Bad. *That lower sea drive mounting hole is the culprit. *Notice the wood just above it. *It's unaffected. *Stupid wood! >:(


So, *I stripped the Boat down:



Here's the POS sea drive getting ready to be picked up. *I sold it as a parts motor on ebay for $200:




And then I pulled it apart:





I haven't yet gotten to cutting into the transon. *I am going to clean all that foam out. *It's pretty waterlogged.
Here's a shot of the guts:





I will start a new thread soon in the repairs section to document this process. *I hope to talk to all of you soon. * I will be celebrating July 4th with some nice fiberglass grinding and foam digging.

Hope y'all have a safe 4th!! ;D


Chris