Latraveler
Recruit
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2018
- Messages
- 4
Good morning all! I’ve watched numerous YouTube clips and reviewed numerous threads from this and other forums. I guess at some point you have to get your hands dirty. I bought this boat 9/12/2001 from a friend in Many La. who regularly fished Toledo Bend. I’ll never forget the day I bought it. The prior week he said he would drive it over for me to try her out. I was busy at work and with all the news of 9/11 I had forgotten he was coming by work. He pulled up behind my office parking lot and parked his truck with boat in tow. He couldn’t enter the secured governmental parking lot even under normal conditions, at least not with trailered boat. He left the boat and came up to my office to visit with me and within 10 minutes an alert was posted and that boat was swarming with security, and local and state police. We had to run out there and calm everybody down and reassure them there was nothing nefarious afoot. Long story for a small boat. It has served us well for 17 years and deserves a restoration. The last 2 years I have been restoring our house from the 2016 flood and the boat has been protected but idle. I was surprised when I stepped on the floor and found it to be soft. That said i’m sure i’ll have numerous questions to members. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have along the way. I’ll post pictures as I progress but for now I have 3 pics in my idea book of my boat.