Deadmeat
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After being exiled to Atlanta for seven years, I returned to Knoxville last summer. When I lived here before I had a Grumman 1542 and an Evinrude 30hp motor that was just about perfect for the fishing I do, so last October I bought a G3 1544LW and a Yamaha 25hp 2-stroke motor. I wanted to fix it up just like my Grumman but the mods had to be simple in order to keep it light so I could haul it around with my little Honda Civic. About all I wanted to do was extend the deck, put in pedestal seats, mount a trolling motor, fish finder, and rod holders, and wire it.
We needed to keep the mods simple. As much as I would have liked to have built hatches and a few other things, my knowledge of tools is generally limited to those tools used for the application of brute force and anything more complicated than that usually results in a trip to the emergency room. Instead, I've got plenty of storage space under the deck. Also, my brother is good with tools but lives in Atlanta, and since we didn't have access to a garage, a long-term mod project was out of the question. My brother came up over New Year's and we worked on the mods for about three days. Here's what we came up with. Simple but it's all I need. Sorry we didn't take pictures of the work in progress.
Also, sorry about posting these in separate topics but for the life of me I can't seem to figure out how to get them out of Photobucket all at once and I get kicked off the page unless I post them separately.