Congrats! Looking forward to this starting to rebuild!!!

Not to much of an update this weekend. Spent about 6 hrs grinding away. Im unfortunately going to recore the last 5 ft of the boat before much else. I will have to at least have the transom in before that so I actually have something holding it together. I also added a "temporary" transom. After grinding/sanding the transom it's barely 1/8" thick and started to get wavy. I had a few sheets of 4x8 azek? (plastic wood) that I mounted to hold everything in place. Hopefully my tent holds up so I can work in the rain.

In case anyone was curious, the transom was 3 layers of 1/2 balsa, the sides are 1 and the bottom/tunnel is 2 layers... This is deff going to suck!!

Are you going to use balsa again or foam or what? Keep up the good work!

hey prostock... i'm about 100% sure I have your old 88 Fever. did it end up at shogren's? If not mine looks exactly like the one in your avi. Its been a great boat for me this past summer!!!!!!!!!

Holy crap i saw that boat up in morristown in the fall figured that thing was beyond repair! I should have known that was the one you bought when you said you where restoring it.. Well def watching this rebuild as i saw the before in person lol :food-smiley-007:

Most likely balsa. I'm not 100% convinced with foam.

Not mine but close. Mine is still local to me. They are great boats though. Mine was 003 in 1988. I think pullmytrigger has 002

It still may be beyond repair:eek:, but I'm trying. As long as I can find some balsa, I should have the transom at least tabbed back in this weekend. With any luck I'll see you on the lake this summer.

you going to run the big V8's that where on it?

For the time being. For 3g's a piece I'm told Montyracing.com can make them a reliable 400 hp+. Obviously at that point I'm going to have to do the sportmaster lowers. I obviously would rather have a set of 300 mercs but first I have to worry about finishing the boat. Just got pricing on Bobs extreme jackplates... $1035 a side.

Im looking forward to seeing this thing all done!

that's a hell of a project. i can't say i envy you, but good luck! :)