cartech5
Well-known member
I am new to this site and have been looking around on it the last few days. I've was going to do this project last year and didn't know anything about this site well im glad now I do. I have learned so much the past few days i have spent most of my free time at work just reading every bodys projects then I figured I would put mine on here.
So first off I have had this boat since i was 15 (i am now 20) and wore it out on the Duck river when I was in highschool i took it out 3 times a week during summer break. well now I have a kayak and its time to make this into a lake cove Bass boat.
How I got the boat
My dad has had a boat most of my life. He had Cancer when i was 8 or 9 off and on till i was 16 so he was on disabilty for well most of my life and couldnt work so he went out and bought him a boat. Me and him went out on it every weekend that was the main thing he did haha. He was always at the lake. Well he passed away when I was 17 and we kept the boat out at my grandpas when he could use it when he wanted to. Well we kept it up there then my mom going behind my back and putting it in my grandfathers name now he wont let us use it. So im glad I bought this one when i was younger. When I turned 15 I had enough money for me to go get my own jon boat so i looked on craigeslist for a few weeks and came up with a 1965 Mon Ark 1432. so dad brought me up there and I Paid $200 for it. So the guy I bought it from said he found it on the bottom of the duck river a few years before I bought it and he was a high school teacher he said he found it and brought it to school for a shop class, and they restored and and its time to do it again.(i dont know what they were thinking when they painted it)
The Project
1963 Mon Ark 1432
so first thing I will be doing to it is sanding and repainting the inside with bed liner and the outside jb weld 17 of the rivets where they are leaking then with beliner on the bottom and rustoleum olive green on the upper half.
Then I plan on lifting the front floor 4-6 inches and the back maybe 2 put ply wood on the bench supports (all carpeted except sides)and putting a 8 or 11 inch seat on the rear bench and the front seat in the middle of the small front deck maybe about the same seat height as the rear.
Im going to have a radio, bilge pump, led lights to see the floor at night, 2 rod holders,and a depth/fish finder and 2 cup holders also i have a 3hp gamefisher and a minn kota 17 lbs thrust trolling motor.
So first off I have had this boat since i was 15 (i am now 20) and wore it out on the Duck river when I was in highschool i took it out 3 times a week during summer break. well now I have a kayak and its time to make this into a lake cove Bass boat.
How I got the boat
My dad has had a boat most of my life. He had Cancer when i was 8 or 9 off and on till i was 16 so he was on disabilty for well most of my life and couldnt work so he went out and bought him a boat. Me and him went out on it every weekend that was the main thing he did haha. He was always at the lake. Well he passed away when I was 17 and we kept the boat out at my grandpas when he could use it when he wanted to. Well we kept it up there then my mom going behind my back and putting it in my grandfathers name now he wont let us use it. So im glad I bought this one when i was younger. When I turned 15 I had enough money for me to go get my own jon boat so i looked on craigeslist for a few weeks and came up with a 1965 Mon Ark 1432. so dad brought me up there and I Paid $200 for it. So the guy I bought it from said he found it on the bottom of the duck river a few years before I bought it and he was a high school teacher he said he found it and brought it to school for a shop class, and they restored and and its time to do it again.(i dont know what they were thinking when they painted it)
The Project
1963 Mon Ark 1432
so first thing I will be doing to it is sanding and repainting the inside with bed liner and the outside jb weld 17 of the rivets where they are leaking then with beliner on the bottom and rustoleum olive green on the upper half.
Then I plan on lifting the front floor 4-6 inches and the back maybe 2 put ply wood on the bench supports (all carpeted except sides)and putting a 8 or 11 inch seat on the rear bench and the front seat in the middle of the small front deck maybe about the same seat height as the rear.
Im going to have a radio, bilge pump, led lights to see the floor at night, 2 rod holders,and a depth/fish finder and 2 cup holders also i have a 3hp gamefisher and a minn kota 17 lbs thrust trolling motor.
