A little bit at a time! One foot in front of the other ! Ya'll have found the secret my friend! Thinking REALLY hard about the one we spoke of...

                             As Ever,

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Get it man! If the price is right and the hull is nice you don't have much to lose.

I went into this project knowing that even if the motor was totally toasted, and all the decking was demolished, and all the wiring was toast: I was still getting a good hull in good working condition that we could fix ourselves (the way we see fit!). It's the best way to do it on a budget boat in my opinion...

Long mike! I'm jealous Alex got to go fish with ya. I'll try and make a trip down there this Summer so I can outfish you!  ;D

I'm going to buy a tilt tube and steering cable as soon as I can get this cash into my bank account. That should put us pretty close to havin this puppy on the water!!  8-)

Well I went and picked up the boat from where we we're storing it, me and my lil big brother (he is younger than me but is an inch taller and about 40 pounds heaver) are going to lay the decking down and put the starter on tomorrow.  Hopefully we can get the beast to start up and see what else we need.  If jay gets that tilt tube and steering cable then hopefully i can go ahead and put that on before he gets back from pittsburg state.  I'm going to take some pics tomorrow and post them, weather permitting, I'm atleast getting the starter on.

Alex ordered the wrong starter motor  ;D D'oh!!

We'll get that exchanged and take care of the tilt tube and steering cable and should be ready to rumble soon.