14' Aluminum Sterling.. Budget restore. lots of Pics

[jwscott]

So i bought this sweet 14' aluminum boat but it was in rough shape and in need of some love, I'm in college and needed to do it all very cheap, so when you see me cutting some corners like glueing two pieces of ply together for the transom thats why!

This is how she looked when I got her.

Used a chemical paint remover to strip the ugly paint.

Pulled off the old transom and gusset (gusset had a crack from the transome being so rotten and the outboard flexing it so I got it welded)

rotten transom

gluing a couple pieces of ply together for new transom

Exterior outboard plate.

 

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Re: 14' Aluminum Sterling.. Budget restore. lots of Pics

primed the bottom

aluminum coat

Masked off all aluminum colour

Spraying the Red

painted this little motorcycle storage container to be mounted inside the boat

 

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Re: 14' Aluminum Sterling.. Budget restore. lots of Pics

mounting and drilling up transom

all new stainless hardware

grey interior coat

 

[jwscott]

Re: 14' Aluminum Sterling.. Budget restore. lots of Pics

paint completed

fabbed up this aluminum plate for the outboard mounting screw clamps

installed

storage box installed

 

[jwscott]

Re: 14' Aluminum Sterling.. Budget restore. lots of Pics

new number and outboard installed!

ready for water

Maiden Launch!

Hope you guys enjoyed my pics, was lots of fun working on it, Just got a 84 Doral 16.5 with OMC 3.0L I've started playing with.