I paid my neighbor $100 dollars for the trailer and it came with the boat and a 1960 Merc 400 (it does not have prop shaft), new 35 pound thrust trolling motor and a brand new trolling battery. The battery was worth a $100 alone.

The neighbor repainted her and told me he put in a new floor and new transom.

Transom was cut to fit short shaft motor.

I forgot to take pictures before I removed everything.

This is what he called, Replacing the floor?

The Floor looks like a hack job, think I better pull it up.

I could not stop laughing!

Yeah, it's time to start cutting!

OK, it took me almost 30 minutes before I stopped laughing at this hack job.

Boy he really went all out.

Yes, liquid nails was used to lay down the 2x4's (I refuse to call them stringers). With this kind of a hack job I'm surprised he just didn't screw them into the hull.

I'm glad OLD GURL is only 14' because I only have 1 more empty trash bin left. Had 2 trash bins worth of rotted wood.

OK, she's dry now and if you noticed I pulled the cap off.

Getting this off was easy bit not a 1 person job. The nuts om the screws kept moving so I inlisted my 9 year old part time tomboy helper. She unscrewed with the drill from the outside while I held the nut with socket wrench. After all screws where out (about 6 had to be cut out with a hand saw) I inlisted the wife and 17yr old daughter to help remove. There was only screws holding it together, no glue or staples that which made my life alot more easy.

Boy OLD GURL sure looks a whole lot smaller in this picture. She's small but the bow end of the cap was heavy!

Time to inspect the transom my neighbor reinfoced

Boy i'm sure glade he reinfoced the transom LOL. If he didn't I think in stead of peeling off by hand that it would have been just powder LOL!

I put a wet vac to it and it just started sucking in the transom.

I don't think i'm getting this out whole to use as my templete.

Here's a nice close up of the neighbor's reinforcment.

Here is the free motor i got from a co-worker. It's a 1987 Force 50hp.

Inside looks very clean.

Looks to good for free.

Cracked coil!!!

Another cracked coil!!!!! I guess it wasn't free after all.

The carb looks brand new.

SS steering wheel and teleflex rotatry steering with cable.

teleflex rotatry steering

Link

Sweet