Yankee Whiskey AKA: USS Get Drunk and Wakeboard AKA: King Ding A Ling of Lake Bryan

[agjohn02]

ive got a camaro seat that would work in it.

[BMFScout]

I forgot about the spare camaro seat I had!! You're a genius John!

[BMFScout]

This pic represents a whole lot more work than it looks. My dad made new stringers out of treated 2X6's to support it. Every piece matched the curvature of the floor, major pain in the ass. I picked up some "Marine" Plywood off of Craigslist for $40 a sheet. The plywood is actually some engineered stuff for some kind of concrete forms. It has these thin layers of something really smooth on the outside. It says exterior grade on it, and I haven't found a void in it in all the cutting we did, it's good stuff. I tested a piece for three days in the pool, just like when I tossed it in. I just sanded the poop out of the upper side with 36 grit so that the fiberglass would stick. I'm in the process of 'glassing in the top, everything underneath got coated in resin as I went. Hopefully this floor will last a really long time.

I also picked up a pretty kickass driver's seat and am going to order a 26 gallon tank to build into the rear seat so I can have some hidden ballast. That should only be good for 250 lbs or so, but with that and a couple of fatsacks I'm hoping for a decent wake. I was reading online people putting 1000 lbs and up in these boats in ballast. That sounds crazy to me, but whatever works.

Fred found a killer deal on a JL10 for it, so we're well on our way to making it bump. I think I'll use the ol' tax return to buy a super sick tower to keep the boards out of the floor.

I'm thinking about putting blue neons under the side rails so that I'll have some light at night and I think it'll look cool on a boat anyway. St.John said it was canadian. Thoughts? St. John also welded another bung into the aluminum tank for me since the fool injected motor needs another fool return. Thanks man!

The motor has been ready to go for awhile, Fred is getting anxious.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

neons would be peemp

[JeepPhisherman]

LEDs are the pale face's neon.

[Graystroke]

since your doing all this work, have you thought about just stripping the rest of the boat and getting it re gelcoated?

[tigweld]

gelcoat doesn't make it wakeboard any better, everything he's done adds to the wakeboardability of the boat, so I don't see it gettin regelcoated. only thing it needs now are a tower and perfect pass, I would think both of those come way before a paint job.

[bburris]

If the rest of it gets buffed like half the starboard side is it would look good as is.

[eight]

Yea, buffing should shine it up.

Gonna put perfect pass on it? Is there some aftermarket system?

Can't just bend up a simple tower and get it painted or powder coated? Just needs 2 hoops and a couple spreaders.

Spend the tower money on some hydraulic trim tabs. That's all the Tige used for wake size control. Also helped it level out when cruising. The Malibu's always running around with its nose in the air.

[jerryg79]

I would think that just getting wet wouldnt necessarily ruin plywood, its getting wet and drying that makes the different "plys" pull apart. Regardless, looks good.

[Seth]

good stuff jimmy. wish i had seen it when i was up there. any details on the seat? and what is perfect pass?

[Doug Krebs]

Can't just bend up a simple tower and get it painted or powder coated? Just needs 2 hoops and a couple spreaders.

How much do the towers cost?

I bet our benders would bend aluminum. Maybe the radius would get flattened out a bit?

I've thought about it for our boat, but seeing as we had a $100 wakeboard that broke after the first couple of tries, it's not really a priority.

[Doug Krebs]

I would think that just getting wet wouldnt necessarily ruin plywood, its getting wet and drying that makes the different "plys" pull apart. Regardless, looks good.

flakeboard is where it's at!

[DRAGOONRANCH]

and what is perfect pass?

http://www.perfectpass.com/pp_wakeboardpro.html

[agjohn02]

How much do the towers cost?

I bet our benders would bend aluminum. Maybe the radius would get flattened out a bit?

why not build it out of some thinwall chromoly? st john can tig it up for you.