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A year ago here on TinBoats, I "blogged" the entire process of modding of my bare bones Mirrocraft 14' mod vee, and a year later I can tell you I love the setup...it's been great. If there's one slight wrinkle, it's probably the Nissan 9.8 outboard. It runs like butter, starts second pull...

I need to mount a rod holder on the side of my jon boat near the location where I sit, but am wondering about the best approach to take and type of holder to use. As shown in the picture, this is a 1448 with sides that flare out at an angle and a gunnel that is barrel-shaped (rounded). Would...

I need something inexpensive I can put around my dock poles that will provide some padding for when boats rub against them. I've see things like this: https://www.acrytekplastics.com/bumpers/roundpostbumper.php ...and that would be great, but I'll be darned if I'm going to spend that kind of...

I'm about to put my plastic peel-off numbers on my aluminum jon boat, and it looks to me like the area where the numbers need to go is riddled with rivets. Anybody found a solution to that? Do you wind up having to put a plate on the hull first and stick the letters to that? Otherwise I have...

What's a material that works well for hammering to a wooden dock to serve as a bumper? I have some old tires, but they're radial and I suspect they'd be near impossible to cut up.

I have a small boat I need to be able to pump the water out of after it rains, however I don't plan to have any kind of motor in the boat. What I'm looking for is a small battery that can carry enough of a charge to run the bilge pump for five minutes. What would be a good inexpensive option?

Could something like this, and a control cable connected to a push-pull rod, be used to steer a little 9.9 HP motor? See "EZ-Glide" on this page: https://www.akmccallumco.com/store-console.htm

There are so many different fishing rod racks out there. When it comes to a rod rack for mounting inside your boat, which do you like best, and why, and how do you like to mount them?

Wiring is underway in the new jon! Most of my wires will travel beneath seats and through conduit, but there are a couple places where I need to make a short wire run in a visible area, well above the water line. I'd like to use some of those little plastic wire clamps as guides for the wire...

My casting deck is nice and big, but there's a significant lip along the front of it... / -------------------------------------------------/ The top of the lip is 5.5" above the casting deck. I will be mounting a Minn Kota bow mount...

I have a 14' jon with a large casting deck on the front, and I want to put a bow-mount trolling motor on it. Now that I have it home here, I'm wondering how that's accomplished. There's no way to put bolts in and reach under to hold the nuts while you tighten the bolts down...it's way out of...

I was just buzzing around the Mills Fleet Farm site and they have a lot of the parts I'm looking for such as: Marine wire Bow light Stern light Bilge pump and connection kit Tie-off cleats Trolling motor receptacle and plug It adds up to a lot though. I'm wondering if there might be a more...

I was just buzzing around the Mills Fleet Farm site and they have a lot of the parts I'm looking for such as: Marine wire Bow light Stern light Bilge pump and connection kit Tie-off cleats Trolling motor receptacle and plug It adds up to a lot though. I'm wondering if there might be a more...

First, thanks to everybody who has helped me figure out the best configuration for the river I live on. I searched around a lot and ultimately settled on a Mirrocraft MV 448 with no center seat. It's 14' long, 48" base, 70" beam. It was made, I think, the last year Mirrocraft made jons, in...

We're on a river where you have to raise and lower the prop as you go from place to place, and that's easy enough with my little 4 HP Yammie. But as I look into larger jon boats that require more HP, I'm suddenly faced with the prospect of hoisting a back-breaker, and my back is "broken" enough...

We live on a river with a lot of shallow spots, which become more "plentiful" as the summer wears on. We need a shallow-runner. I tried out a Triton 16' mod vee with decking and a 25 HP engine, welded, probably .01 gauge aluminum, and it had too much of a draft; the lower tip of the prop fin...

I'm considering a boat combo that has a 25 HP Mercury 4-Stroke engine. The seller says they did a compression test and I'm thinking of asking to see the numbers on their test, but want a frame of reference so I know what "good" would look like. Can someone tell me what range of PSI is...

I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger on what seems like a good rig at a good price, but would like to hear a few second opinions. The combo is a mod vee 2005 Triton 1648 AW with 2005 25 HP Mercury Bigfoot, a Yacht Club trailer, Motor Guide "Brute 52" bow mount TM with foot control, large...

I know a lot of guys like to blaze along, but in our river here we will probably never even get up on plane; it's a no-wake zone. In our situation, is an 8-9 HP 2-cylinder motor really not enough? The Alweld dealer told me we should be looking at a 25 HP for a 14 footer, and that would kill...

Scenario: I'm looking at a fairly heavy Alweld 12' Jon (1242 V), with a front casting deck. I may want to add a bow-mount trolling motor to it, with a foot control. Whatever I end up with, I don't want it underpowered. I fish a river and there's enough current there sometimes to require a...