Saving a McKee

[tsubaki]

Dang, that thing is real clean looking!
Really it do look good!
40 horse and bigger tiller is usually a booger to find everything for it.

[tsubaki]

Now that you've gone that far you gotta put a sump/bilge in it, just for the meanness for it.

[spareparts]

I don't think he'll like it in a tiller, those boats don't like the weight aft. Later models had the driver seat up front, where the passenger bench used to be. I had to move a lot of things around to get mine where I liked it.

[phatdaddy]

spares right, a tiller puts too much weight in the rear. my whaler was a bare hull and i ran a tiller for 3 years before i made a console.

[randlemanboater]

Good info...I will pass it along to him.

[Blue_Runner]

Sweet Mckee your friend has there. Dad's 14 CC has a 1988 40hp rude and it pushes it up to about 30mph, but I've never verified that number. It sure feels like it tho. Definitely 25mph at the very least.

I've taken it out to the 3 mile reef trolling for kings. Tough azz boats no doubt.

[randlemanboater]

It looks really clean now.








The hull is definitely not waterlogged, the front weighs about 150 pounds and the maybe 250...that's using the highly accurate "pick it up" method.