AZSunDevil
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Hello all this is my first post. First I have to say thank you to all who have contributed to the wealth of information on this site. I've been lurking for a week or so and just absorbing as much as I can from the site.
(Tried Editing and Rotating Photos; Still not working)
I've been toying with the idea of getting a small boat that I can use here in Arizona in our "high country" or Rim lakes where we are limited to 10hp on most lakes or Electric only. Primarily I just want something I can fish for trout from and maybe once in a while I might take on the bigger lakes down in the "low country" on cooler days. A friend in Colorado fixed up a 14ft aluminum v-hull and he initially inspired me to start my search for a budget fishing boat build.
I know an older guy who is somewhat of a hoarder/picker, lives out in the boonies, and has a 16ft aluminum boat sitting on an old rusty tilt trailer. Very little is known about the boat. Somebody owed him money back in the 90s and left it with him as "payment." He offered to give it to me for essentially nothing. He had started to fix up the trailer (new winch, tongue/hitch mount, and rims/tires) so that another one of our friends could drag it back to Montana but he ended up finding something near his home in Montana.
Boat is very straight, no damage or dents, rivets and seams look to be tight and in great shape from what little I know about boats. As you can see from photos there's some trash in the boat but the paint, from my initial look, seems albeit faded, in pretty good shape; not bubbling , a little flaking. Transom wood looks a bit dry rotted and baked from decades in the intense AZ sun. Wood on the bench needs to be replaced as well. The external Hull Identification tag/plate is missing. There are two inside the boat near the transom, one is illegible from fading the other I can barely make out says Max Capacity 5 Persons and I think it said ~800lbs (I'll have to look again more closely). I have no idea of the manufacturer or model of the boat but it seems like something I could work with given the price.
Will try to get better photos when I get a chance to go down and look at the boat again but here's what I have so far:
(Tried Editing and Rotating Photos; Still not working)
I've been toying with the idea of getting a small boat that I can use here in Arizona in our "high country" or Rim lakes where we are limited to 10hp on most lakes or Electric only. Primarily I just want something I can fish for trout from and maybe once in a while I might take on the bigger lakes down in the "low country" on cooler days. A friend in Colorado fixed up a 14ft aluminum v-hull and he initially inspired me to start my search for a budget fishing boat build.
I know an older guy who is somewhat of a hoarder/picker, lives out in the boonies, and has a 16ft aluminum boat sitting on an old rusty tilt trailer. Very little is known about the boat. Somebody owed him money back in the 90s and left it with him as "payment." He offered to give it to me for essentially nothing. He had started to fix up the trailer (new winch, tongue/hitch mount, and rims/tires) so that another one of our friends could drag it back to Montana but he ended up finding something near his home in Montana.
Boat is very straight, no damage or dents, rivets and seams look to be tight and in great shape from what little I know about boats. As you can see from photos there's some trash in the boat but the paint, from my initial look, seems albeit faded, in pretty good shape; not bubbling , a little flaking. Transom wood looks a bit dry rotted and baked from decades in the intense AZ sun. Wood on the bench needs to be replaced as well. The external Hull Identification tag/plate is missing. There are two inside the boat near the transom, one is illegible from fading the other I can barely make out says Max Capacity 5 Persons and I think it said ~800lbs (I'll have to look again more closely). I have no idea of the manufacturer or model of the boat but it seems like something I could work with given the price.
Will try to get better photos when I get a chance to go down and look at the boat again but here's what I have so far:
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