I’ve been looking for a comfortable boat to put  in the Garhole so I don’t have to haul my boat up there on the gravel roads every time I want to fish. The dust or the mud, take your pick, is not the best for your boat.  There has been an old Fisher Marine in the weeds for many years, and when I inquired as to ownership, I was told the owner had sold his membership and left the boat, and that it was in the way and needed to be hauled off.  So that’s what I did. Here are photos when we pulled it out.

You can see, especially in the second photo, the condition of the interior. The flotation foam under the floor was soaked and was so heavy that Willie and I could hardly lift it in the truck. I stripped everything out, took all the junk off, and tried to clean it out. The weather was so cold everything was frozen together to start out.  The previous owner had made a duck blind out of it and had gone drill happy on the upper part of the hull, holes everywhere. When all the foam was out it was the perfect time to check for leaks.  With the boat on some sawhorses I filled it to 6 inches deep with water and not a drop came out. To  start putting it back together I wrapped some foam , cut to fit, in some heavy contractor trash bags, taped them well and installed them in the floor with all new over sized screws.  The front seat box had to go. Then I cut a front deck from treated plywood along with appropriate braces and had it all fitting right.

Then everything was removed and painted olive drab and put back together. An old trolling motor was installed on the front, Mickey donated some seats and swivels, and here is the result.

I put the rods I’m not using on the front deck pointed to the stern so I had to put some rod savers on the front deck to keep them from getting kicked overboard because the front deck was almost flush with the gunnel.  Can’t wait to try it out.