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Hey guys I have been fishing nearly every weekend. Doing some exploring on new stretches of river now that I have the protection on the boat. It is holding up way better than I imagined it would. I wish that I had a decent camera to film some of the rivers that I have been running lately. I...

I haven't posted since I've tried the boat out but I've had her out about 5 times. The plastic doesn't seem to have affected the performance at all and I have smashed one rock running down stream. The overall impact seemed better since it glides over rocks like butter now. It hasn't really...

Bottom is done flipped back over on the trailer so glad to have only the easy part left

Only thing left is the center rib then I'll be flipping her and getting her wet hopefully this weekend sometime

How much did that run and how thick is it?

Yes I will be routing out the center of the triangular pieces for ribs and using glue only for those as well..I will have 1" of contact on the bottom of that piece plastic to plastic and it fits snug on the rib. I have 3 pieces glued so far.. It is a time consuming process but it seems to be...

Well I just finished glueing the second piece on both outside strips and got the rib pieces cut getting ready to hit them with the router. So far it looks like it will hold I tried prying the first piece off and it would not budge.

Got a little more done slowly but surely coming around finished stripping the bottom to bare metal and cut the plastic to length.

Reltek claims that it is rated for 350 psi uplift so I'm thinking that will hold plenty well. However I will be testing some first also. I have done about a years worth of research and talked to several different companies they seemed to have the best product I was looking for and the most...

I have a small update have not been able to work on it as much as I would like. The plastic and the adhesive are in and I have the bottom almost completely stripped to bare metal. The next step for me is get the plastic cut and prepped for adhesive then clean the hull one more time and hope for...

A friend of mine has a complete flat bottom 1648 he ran the plastic all the way to the tunnel and tapered it flush with the tunnel and did not have any issue with cavitation any worse than before. If anything I'm guessing I won't be able to trim it quite as high while running since technically...

I got some adhesive from a company called Reltek they claim it has been used in some pretty harsh conditions and holds up great I hope they are right as much as it costs. I know that mostly everyone that installs it from the factory bolts it but I can't bring myself to drill holes in my almost...

Uhmw stands for Ultra High Molecular Weight polyethylene which is basically an extremely dense and slick plastic. Hoping to do some more work to it tonight if so I will have some pictures to follow.

I've had the boat almost a year now been wanting to put on some uhmw before now but I am just now getting around to it. I have the boat stripped down and flipped on the trailer so I can get started I will post more pics as I get them.

Got some new goodies in the mail tonight. My trolling motor supposed to be here tomorrow also so I will be busy tomorrow night.

The 10 hr break in period sucks I've done it numerous times before. Yamaha gives some precise details on how many Rpms they like you to turn per each hour. I Guess I will have to judge since it does not have a tach. Does everyone esle have a tach? I found it strange to not have one since its...

I believe they are next of kin that's where I got her at. I'm thinking about rising down to the river this evening

Thanks for the reply I see you are in Halifax I'm not too far from you in Lynchburg I fish the Staunton, James, and New rivers. I tried to fish last Saturday with my father in law on the James in big island but the creek was solid ice. I hope to get out Saturday and see how she does.

Do you think the 75# motor is a little over kill I'm looking to order mine tonight and was thinking of going with the 55 12 volt. I wanted to try to keep it light as I could hoping I could get away with that since I will be mostly drifting or anchored anyways.

First post on here I've been dying forever to get an outboard jet. I've done a lot of research and finally Made the plunge today. Don't have many pics of her since I picked it up at lunch timebut I can't wait to get on the water and try it out.