Vintage Mirrocraft 12 Project

I wanted to make a dead simple boat for smaller lakes, and to have something to use smaller vintage motors on. I found this boat on Craigs. It had been sitting upside down under a deck in the dark since 1993. Every bit of wood was gone.... eaten by ants most likely.... Floatation rotten.... but otherwise a very sound hull. ( seats are aluminum shells with plastic woodgrain over them).






First step... strip the outside... baby blue is not my color...



Prep and paint the inside aluminum 2 part urethane paint: (first coat)

Seats were rotten so I decided to make new ones out of 2x12 southern yellow pine.

I had an old Tee Nee that somebody had made into a garden trailer.....







Lot's of sanding, a few parts and paint:

Put it all together and it came out pretty nice imo...

Also the perfect tool for electric lakes....



There's something special about just having a simple boat. Launches and lands without a thought.... Lightweight so I can wheel it around my hilly property by hand... without worrying that it's going to end up at the bottom of the hill a quarter of a mile south.... I can just flip it over to keep the weather out of it.... hose it out when it's dirty...... You lose a lot when you start adding all that storage and floors..... stuff Great Grandpa never even thought he needed....

Nice Thread and nicer boat (now).

That bright yellow trailer color wouldn't last long down here in the salt, though.

I see I am not the only one who still uses a chisel. Had one in my hand last week.

Well done!

That bright yellow makes em harder to steal :wink: