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I haven't been on here much in the last few weeks, as you can see, so didn't see your question until today. I'll get those deck measurements for you probably tomorrow evening. As mounted as shown in the pics I've posted so far, the remote control worked great. However the actual mounting...

Absolutely!! It's closed cell polystyrene. As a matter of fact, the reason that the roof was being reworked on the building next door (where I got this foam after it was left over when the job was finished) was that the original foam under the membrane roof was urethane open cell, and it was...

Nice work! Also glad to see your buddy was with you. Mine have to supervise and inspect everything I do, and they're great boat buddies too. I also like your squid/shrimp lunch offering. Looks dang near good enough to slap on the grill. :lol: What is the material you made your seat...

Well, this sorta surprised me. I thought that the first thing that I would be spreading epoxy on would be the flooring, but as it turns out it was this 12"x18" piece of plywood that I'll rivet to the the back of the rear seat. This wood panel will be where I mount the Blue Sea fuse panel and...

Now it's time to start installing stuff, so I gathered up all the stuff that I've been buying over the last year, and ordered everything for plumbing the boat and livewell. Ordered most stuff from JMSOnline Marine, BoatStoreUSA, and Wholesale Marine and some from Cabela's and C-Mee Marine...

The next step was to transfer the outline of the template onto the marine plywood and very carefully cut it out using my old skilsaw with a good carbide tipped plywood blade and my old jigsaw, with a new Bosch blade good for plywood. Before starting that, I checked both saws over carefully to...

Ok, I've FINALLY gotten back to work on my SeaArk conversion. I'm installing a floor in the boat, a rod locker along the port side of the boat, a livewell as an extension of the front deck, a battery/storage locker just abaft of that and somewhat lower so that it acts as a step-down from the...

Thanks guys! We love our dogs like they're our kids. I had heard that rescued dogs are special because they really appreciate their new homes. We've seen this in Griff. Every second and penny we've invested in him has been returned with love, loyalty, and companionship a hundred times over...

Dang Chris. Just found this thread today. Haven't been on here much in the past several months. My heart goes out to you and your family. You'll always have a hole in your hearts where Holly's memories stay. Nothing else will ever fill that hole. A good dog like Holly is truly a blessing...

Some GOOD brands besides Ranger are Cajun or Ragin' Cajun. They're strongly built and very fast on plane. Skeeter's are excellent and have been around a LONG time. Allison's are FAST and usually well built. HydraSports are terrific boats and some were built with Kevlar hulls and epoxy resin...

Do NOT buy a Galaxy. You find those mostly down in the Gulf coast states. They were put out of business because of catastrophic hull failures and insufficient floatation. A lot of used Bumble Bee's have problems if they've been run much in rough waters. They're pretty lightly built...

70"!!!!! HOLY MOLY!!! That's dang near HUGE. Sure puts my 32" HD to shame, but I don't have anywhere to put something that big. I've just got an old 27" tube type down in the man cave.

After about 20 minutes, we met up with some friends out on the water (also a tin boater), and to my amazement, he hopped from my boat over to my friend's boat. He visited for a couple of minutes and then hopped back in my boat. After a few more minutes, this boat stuff became old hat to Griff...

I have a 4 year old German Shepherd that was rescued out of a puppy mill. He had spent the first two years of his life cooped up in a 3 ft square "kennel", and couldn't straighten out his body or even run when first rescued. He also hadn't ever walked on anything but concrete and when he...

I'm one of those rocket scientists that you hear about all the time, but let me tell you, we ain't NEAR as smart as most folks think we are. Actually, I'm sorta semi-retired but worked for years for NASA and the US Army Missile Command primarily at Marshall Space Flight Center and Redstone...

I raised the transom on my SeaArk 1548 DuckHawk from 15" for a short shaft motor to 20" for a long shaft. Basically, we took a piece of 2"x2" square aluminum tubing (or it may have been 1 1/2"x1 1/2") with 1/4" wall thickness and beveled it on either end so it fit the contours of the original...

Great looking job! You'll be glad you raised that transom up first time you have to come off plane quickly, or are slow trolling in a following sea. I raised mine up on my SeaArk 1548 DuckHawk and am really glad I did. We were trolling for walleye last week and it was so windy it was...

Flatbotm: There's two reasons I didn't go with the console: #1) Money, or lack thereof. #2) The SeaArk DuckHawk has a sorta "V" shaped rear seat that sets you at a 45 degree angle that makes it really comfortable to steer with a tiller, and also makes it difficult to install a console unless...

Here's a pic of my setup to drill the larger holes for the instrument panel that will be mounted on the port side of the boat, to the gunwale and the top of the rear seat. Even though I had everything dogged down good and tight, I was still getting chattering and dragging from the hole cutter...

Here, I'm drilling the hole for the ignition switch, using a medium speed on the drill press. Squaring the hole for the trim/tilt switch. I started to just use a SPDT, momentary contact, spring-return-to-center, toggle switch to match the others, but I had a factory Suzuki switch I picked up...