Not a Wellcraft, a Whaler redo

[phatdaddy]

I know this is not a whaler forum, but things have been kinda slow on here this summer, so i thought I'd show u guys what I've been up to.

this is a '63 13 ft that i have owned since '92. it was a total wreck when i got it, no wood or hardware, just the hull. I use it for scalloping and stone crabbing. it gets banged up a lot. that was not so bad, but a couple of years ago, it started leaking through the hull a lot. my solution was to put a bilge pump in and just keep going. found a 4 inch crack along the bottom of the transom, so decided to fix that.

you know how that goes, first one thing then another dozen on a boat; ended up redoing wood, total paint and kiwigrip on the deck and rub rails.


looks good the further u get away from it


deck layout



light blue is kiwigrip, whaler blue is Total Boat topside paint



white is pretty aggressive kiwigrip for top rail

I power it with a 40 hp Tohatsu 2 stroke, working on it now

I'll let u know how the shakedown cruise goes