Bought the boat, motor and trailer for $500 and was intended to be a little beater for the kids to putter around the nearby lakes. The boat is a 1970 Seacraft fiberglass boat made by Sebring Boat Company. The boat was powered by a 1970 Evinrude 25 tiller. We got it home, changed the impeller and everything checked out. We went fishing one morning and the engine started throwing parts and the boat had a leak. On top of that, I tried to stand on the front deck and fell in (it was winter and the water was cold!) Of course I had my cell phone in my pocket.

We had to get towed in. Great. Once we got the flat on the trailer fixed (dry rotted tires) we broke down the engine and found the head and one cylinder was destroyed by a small piece of metal that got sucked in through one of the cylinder ports (piece of ring). After a few weeks of discussing the future of the boat with my son, we started thinking what ifs and if onlys. Well, I bought a great little '03 Merc 25 off Ebay and we were committed. We decided to convert this little skinny generic fishing craft into a skinny-skinny water center console fishing machine!