Stringer/Transom area question

[JohnB]

Could you shoot some pictures of the tackle cabinets, I am thinking about putting some in my boat, and am looking for ideas.

[1bayouboy]

JohnB....where are you located.....
I live in Mount Pleasant......I can also get pretty good prices on glass through some friends in the Marine industry.

[JohnB]

I am a little north of Orlando FL. I get glass for 24 bucks a gallon in singles, and epoxy for about 58 a gallon. I hope to be putting my last gallon of glass into this rig tomorrow.

[JohnB]

Well, I have the hatch/cover for the livewell in the cap

and I pulled the livewell out of the mold. It looks pretty good, and fits within a 1/4" inside the cap. It's square/straight, the picture just came out wierd.

[JohnB]

Completed the final water test today, ran it for an hour, and she is SWEET....

Gas milage is up 5-10% across the board, I am getting a nice 31mph cruise with a 14.8 gph burn. At 26, I am getting about 2.4 mpg burning 11.1 gph. WOT is 45 mph burning 26 gph. That is pretty good considering the sail/top I have on the boat.

I am assuming since I am using the same fuel manager and setup that these are accurate.

Of course this is with a light load, but I never got near those numbers before.

Min planing speed has dropped, and surpisingly, I actually have a tighter turning radius with the bracket, then without it.

Noise and fumes dropped A LOT. The wife and I made a trip down the St Johns with the wind at our back, and you could still talk, and even with the wind at our backs, the fumes/oil were much less in the no wake zones.

The remounted trim tabs are awsome, and the new short/fast actuators really can bury the nose fast.

The balance seems very good, I will have to put a fuel load and some guys in it this week to do the final test. She is a little nose down, but I think once I get gas/iced/crewed up, she should be just fine.

The repositioned transducer and between the clean hull and the new ducer location, it seems to work much better too.

I could probably go up one more hole on the motor, but I am going to get her in some snotty salt water before trying that.

Well, she needs a final clean up, and I need to finish insulating the fish box, and hopefully, we will see if the dog remembers how to hunt, and can still sniff out the bottom dwellors.

Well I snapped a few shots, and here she is

Bracket and rounded off cap


Profile shot


View back from the cockpit.


Shot of the bracket and cap, check out the trim tabs.


Another shot of the Fishing Bull Pen, nothing to fall over or into back there.


New infloor fishbox, where the livewell used to be. It isn't long, but will hold a 42" grouper. I have another fishbox under the passenger seat, and always have the fishbag for anything else that comes along in the cabin. With the new SAMFC rules, I can probably use lunch pail :why


New in-transom/cap livewell, holds close to 40 gallons. I am really going to miss stepping on peoples fingers when they are crawling around on the floor trying to get a bait out of the livewell, the stepping in it, and dinging my shin on the way down. Probably one of the reasons I hate live bait bottom fishing.