The two front boxes are insulated 5 ft ice/fish boxes, the one in the foreground was supposed to be covered by the console but it didn’t look right being that far forward. Would have been ok functionality but looked goofy. Decided to move the helm back 30” so the console would need to be stretched to cover the well that was making it a stand up console.

Console can now serve as a second live well or upholstered for a lounge seat

There was a lot of surplus Kevlar in the shop and it was used in the top cap and the console.
The mould for the console was picked up as scrap from yellowfin after one of their design updates. Same for the hardtop. So cutting the console to stretch is was a real pain. The stuff just kills saws. Before the hard top went on, I was moving it to a cooler location to shoot the last coat of gel and it blew out of the truck at about 60mph, rolled end over end twice then skidded upright off the road. I figured it was all cracked up but there was no structural damage whatsoever, just some frayed Kevlar along the bottom where the gel was scraped off by the road.

Sanding

Sanding

More sanding

Decided to ditch the leaning post/ live well for the time being.

Deck is Matterhorn white with skid tex added and sprayed thru a reg gel gun. The sides are a mix of grey and clear gel and sprayed thru a 15$ undercoating gun that made a perfect size low profile bumpy pattern that I wish had on the deck as well, but I got behind on the last coat and the stuff kicked off in the gun and I never found one that would make that pattern again. Too bad because it had plenty of grip without looking like non skid and cleans real easy.

Hull polished and ready for rub rail

The gel polished up nice but a fishing boat needs a gaudy wrap.

Stayed up late and got the rub rail on.

Great looking job and you saved an oldie from the chainsaw!

RR

This boat was originally going to get 315 yanmars. Mastry in Tampa had what was some of last mechanically controlled new yanmars left and were part of an over shipment to Sweden. I had a deposit on them but began to worry they weren’t enough for this boat so I cancelled the order. But more power would mean a trans and there wasn’t room for an in-line (qsb 480) six and a Huber trans so I decided to marinize Duramax’s for the light weight and small footprint.