Drift Boat Project Finished!

[Bone_Collector]

Well we finally got the drift boat put back together! 2 years ago we started the project of striping the drift boat down and its finally ready to hit the water!

We had the whole boat stripped down to bare metal and than powder coated in blue and hammered gray along with the trailer in hammered gray finish. We put in brand new fishon seats for the front and back and a new rowers seat. We added a fish box under the rowers bench in a hammered gray powder coat finish and what boat would not be complete with out some new cataract 10' oars. What a pain in the A$$ but the boat looks brand new and so far its the only one I have seen that is completely powder coated!







Enjoy

B_C

[75johndeere]

 :drool:very nice where did you find a shop with that big of a oven

[Happy Gilmore]

Looks great. I'll be starting a similar project as soon as I'm back to work full time. I have basically the same boat, a 2005 Alumaweld. Needs some luvin'. I'm thinking about having Workskiff in Sedro do a "swirl job" on it like their workboats. Reminds me of fish scales. I thought it would also be unique and cool looking. A friend of mine owns Line-X in Chehalis. Was thinking about having him shoot the inside with Line-X. Any thoughts on that? Pro's con's?

Very nice looking job on yours. Curious about anything that came up to be worried about/consider when I start my project boat.

[whitey]

Thats a real pretty boat. Nice job on all the hard work.
Looks great.
Now get some blood in it.

[Fishing Fool]

Hey BC, nice job, looks better than new. Break it in on the Ronde?  Mike

[bowtech721]

Looks good!

Looks great. I'll be starting a similar project as soon as I'm back to work full time. I have basically the same boat, a 2005 Alumaweld. Needs some luvin'. I'm thinking about having Workskiff in Sedro do a "swirl job" on it like their workboats. Reminds me of fish scales. I thought it would also be unique and cool looking. A friend of mine owns Line-X in Chehalis. Was thinking about having him shoot the inside with Line-X. Any thoughts on that? Pro's con's?

Very nice looking job on yours. Curious about anything that came up to be worried about/consider when I start my project boat.

I thought about linex too but wasnt sure how hard it would be to clean... also how much weight would that add? that was my other concern. It would be kinda cool though

[Happy Gilmore]

Looks good!

Looks great. I'll be starting a similar project as soon as I'm back to work full time. I have basically the same boat, a 2005 Alumaweld. Needs some luvin'. I'm thinking about having Workskiff in Sedro do a "swirl job" on it like their workboats. Reminds me of fish scales. I thought it would also be unique and cool looking. A friend of mine owns Line-X in Chehalis. Was thinking about having him shoot the inside with Line-X. Any thoughts on that? Pro's con's?

Very nice looking job on yours. Curious about anything that came up to be worried about/consider when I start my project boat.

I thought about linex too but wasnt sure how hard it would be to clean... also how much weight would that add? that was my other concern. It would be kinda cool though

Couldn't be all that much. They say a gallon of the roll on/paint on bedliner does a pick up truck bed, that's about what, 10lbs??

[Bone_Collector]

I am taking it out tomorrow to put some bloody streaks in it on the Ronde!

HG I have the inside of my big sled with some sort of bed liner on the floors and I love the stuff! it works great but it can be a pain in the A$$ to clean if you cant clean it after an outing. As far any thing that came up while we were redoing the boat there was no real big issues. If you are going to redo the bottom of your boat with the bed liner and your buddy is going to do it than you should not have any problems he will know how to prep the aluminum. The first time I did the bottom of my sled we prepped the floors and than let them set for a few days and they oxidized which caused the liner on the bottom to come up. But I had a shop do all the work to the floors when we redid them and they look killer!

Here are a couple that I have with the floor of the boat in the picture please disregard the fish in the pics but its all I have! (Im not very good at remembering to take before and after pictures when working on a project!)

Middle of the boat


Back of the boat


Front of the boat


The fish slime does come off real easy!

B_C

[bowtech721]

forget about the floors that pile of steel is insane!!!

[Happy Gilmore]

cool, thanks.

[JODakota]

forget about the floors that pile of steel is insane!!!

Seriously dude

[75johndeere]

the line x thing is give and take if you are a clean nut and clean it right away its great but i did the inside of my moms jeep and she hates it once something dries its really hard to get off but then again your talking about a boat where you could just hit it with a pressure washer also it wouldnt be cost effective to do it yourself the inside of the jeep took alittle over 2 gallons to do and its not on very thick so i would have it done by a pro

[rasbo]

the boat looks awesome,great work on it

[Bone_Collector]

I forgot to mention that when cleaning I use super clean it comes in a purple jug. I dump some of it on the floor and get the scrub brush out after a little scrubbing and a good pressure washing it looks brand new!

B_C