a little lot of karma, rebirth of a 20....PART 2
 

I bought Bly's old boat that he restored in 2012 and documented on this forum. Well, this offseason I did my own part 2 to this restoration.

Went through the process of adding a doghouse over the past year. Have a lot of pictures and thought it would be worthwhile to document if anyone else is considering doing it. I love how it came out - shoutout to Todd at brewstercustomboats. This project suited my needs and gave me basically ability for 2 people to be fully out of the elements which is necessary for what I plan to do with the boat - fish it hard from April to November in Cape Cod. Also now have the ability to add a radar - a must in Chatham.

The boat before:

Doghouse being built. 3/8" solid fiberglass. Hard top popped out of a mold as well with coring.

Very cool, the old owner has a beautiful early SeaVee now that took the place of the SC. Jay did a lot of nice work on that hull.

fyi this project has already completed. im just posting the pics as they were done for everyone here.

Windows cut out and hardtop popped out of mold. Has Coosa mounting deck for radar.

console cutout and prepped for doghouse.

doghouse glassed into the deck. can't figure out how to do multiple photos per post so breaking it up

more pics

started to cut prepare the dash for electronics

Love it! How solid is the top, any flex when pushing side to side or pretty stable? Gonna put rocket launchers on or no? Will you use the u lock trim stuff to get the windows in? Looks like they kept the radius big enough to use window lock trim. I like the angles seems to fit the boat pretty nice.

The top is rock solid. I can fully hang off of it & Todd & brewstercustomboats said I can put block&tackle on it and get giants on board. The windows were professionally done.

electronics in

teak helm pod from Bly's original build. refinished it.

steering in & new upholstery.

installed radar

more upholstery & the windows in

side profile of the boat with radar & windows in. Also just freshly painted the boat with Awlgrip Ice Blue

matching the hatches & underside of hardtop with ice blue

Sitting in the water. Repowered with a 2022 Suzuki 150

interior view

View fully loaded up for fishing

that's all she wrote. last touch was adding a black old LED spreader bar which I found as a necessity for the early morning pitch black rides out of the harbor.

cool drone footage

view from the bow with a 75" tuna on spin!

I cannot be happier with the outcome of this project. The doghouse completely transformed the boat. 2 people can be completely dry & warm regardless of conditions. I have pushed this boat to the limits regularly fishing 40 miles offshore (with all the proper safety equipment & rafts/epirbs/etc). The new Suzuki is awesome as well. I'd argue it would be difficult to find a better set up 20 foot boat out there.

Cheers

Looks great! Very nice

Nice work looks like its balanced out really well. Great pics and thanks for posting it on CSC.

strick

Outstanding!

nice sled. have seen it at Ryders and out east. You put some miles on that thing.

Have you lifted any giants over the side wondering how much roll those hulls can handle?

We have had very large fish over the gunnel and have not had any issues

Boat looks really nice. Clean looking dog house.

Love it and what you are doing with it!

Outstanding!! A 20'er out with the big boys doing big boy stuff!!! :)

great stuff. what kind of performance numbers are you getting with the new suzuki?