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Originally Posted by muttmechanic (Post 279937)

I'm planning on having it setup for dual purpose of fishing and duck hunting. Its in great shape other than the spot that hit the fence when the guy was pulling it out his back yard. All im going to have to do is cut out the pipe from the top of the gunnel and re-weld a new pipe back in and I should be good as new. I'd appreciate any suggestions. I'm still in school so I'm planning on having this next rig for awhile until I get out of here.

If you are going to have that fixed you can have a front storage box built, I have one that comes out about 2ft great for battery and life jackets and such. If you are going to have to wire it go to West marine and get marine grade wire, you can then go to Advanced Auto and get breaker and all the waterProof connectors you need. I have a fuse panel in my front box close to my battery that my lights, depth finder and such run through; this makes everything neat and easy to work on if you have problems. There is a post on here with some pics of my boat with the box, I will get the link for you.

this is box, if pics work

Weedeater thats a nice box . Who did your work ?

55 digital on 1652, does great...

I may be able to get pictures tonight if not it wont be until next week the hull is at my parents house

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Originally Posted by Kenner18 (Post 279965)

Weedeater thats a nice box . Who did your work ?

special order when I bought the boat but southside welding on common in Lake Charles can do it

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Originally Posted by weedeater (Post 279973)

special order when I bought the boat but southside welding on common in Lake Charles can do it

I have used him before ,he does great work and has good prices. Was just wondering if that was his work .

Box is great for shotgun shells, tackle box and a lot more. My boat also has back deck extended with lid over gas tank, both of these make it nice to fish from.

Nice looking boat. Alweld has nice custom boats.

ball parking it how much do you think it would cost to cut that front deck into a box like that. Right now its the same, but solid and I have a hole that is about 1.5ft one wide and 8 inches tall in the back of the front deck. The back of my boat is fully exposed. Both of those are awesome though. They don't look like they'd be too hard to accomplish but would be extremely useful.

how fast does a 25 push you with what you have? I've been debating a 25 vs a 40.

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Originally Posted by muttmechanic (Post 280041)

back would be simple to just build a lid and weld some suports, front could be done pretty easy. To do front they could just extend back and put a lid and leave the opening you have for even more storage under the deck. I will open mine up and get some more pics that you could take and let a shop look at, as for price I would guess $300 ball park.

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Originally Posted by muttmechanic (Post 280042)

how fast does a 25 push you with what you have? I've been debating a 25 vs a 40.

was pushin 35mph had alittle work done and it should push alittle over that

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Originally Posted by PaulMyers (Post 279856)

Very good advice!

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He knows this only because I've preached this o him and he found out the hard headed way.

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Originally Posted by muttmechanic (Post 280042)

how fast does a 25 push you with what you have? I've been debating a 25 vs a 40.

I would get a 40. Do you have a tunnel or a flatbottom?

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Originally Posted by 1fastmerc (Post 280049)

He knows this only because I've preached this o him and he found out the hard headed way.

Hey now, I'm not weedeater!

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I have the same hull as in the pictures the inside is slightly different though