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Front cast deck and pods, build pics
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Author:  vertical_edge_800 [ Fri Jul 04, 2014 1:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Front cast deck and pods, build pics
So a couple weeks ago I borrowed my buddies boat... Hit a big ass rock with it and sank it in a remote Alaskan river. I was alone and it made for an interesting (long) night to recover it. The bottom of the boat where it meets up with the transom tore out. So I decided to go ahead and built him a set of pods (hides the damage), and a nice front deck as the other one was a rotted plywood setup. I TIG welded everything you see here :)

Boat runs fantastic with the pods and a Mud Buddy 27 surface drive!
Author:  vertical_edge_800 [ Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:00 pm ]
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Some more pics as I was going along :)
Author:  vertical_edge_800 [ Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:15 pm ]
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Oops.. This is about 3 minutes after impact looking for a spot to beach it, started dragging bottom and stuck in about 10" of water. Bilge pump picked a fine time to stop working. I end up cutting the foam out of a throwable floatation device and stuffing it into the hole (there was 3 throwable devices on the boat already and plenty of life vests for all you safety minded folk). After I plugged the hole, I used my rubber boot to bail the water out.
Author:  vertical_edge_800 [ Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:17 pm ]
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You can actually see where the water is boiling up near the center brace on the transom. Left side.
Author:  dillakilla12 [ Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:36 pm ]
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Mighty white of ya to hook ur buddy up with all the extra goodies after sinking his boat lol looks good!
Author:  GDSArgo [ Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:38 pm ]
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Did your buddy a solid patch job. Looks good bet he got over it real fast after seeing how you hooked him up


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Author:  odass [ Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:39 pm ]
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Looks good, think my friends would have just left it...
Author:  bayouboy [ Fri Jul 04, 2014 6:43 pm ]
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Author:  vertical_edge_800 [ Sat Jul 05, 2014 10:29 am ]
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Thanks guys- it was a fun little project. All I have is a TIG machine so some of the welds took forever to run lol
Author:  KYmudWE [ Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:54 pm ]
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says I cant view pics, I don't have required permission or something.
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