Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

I have always wanted to build a boat from scratch. I have lost most of my superpowers so I wasn't sure I could pull this off, still may not Now this isn't a build from scratch, no nothing that easy. I'm rebuilding my 95 vintage Beachcomber.

Some of the getting started pics:

Do it in a job at a time it wont seam all that bad.

It's a job, but it is great every time you take it out you know you done it your self and made it the way you want it

If you look real close you can see why only Stainless fasteners should be used on water. Especially the water we have here on the gulf coast, Its brackish at best to salty. I may have the wife go and bucket out Sabine lake and replace it with some good stuff from Toledo Bend!

Another pic of why you only need stainless fasteners!

Looks like a good place to start its not to bad of a job to rebuild a toon and yes stainless steel ever where is the only way to go and yes its more $$$ but well worth it just

Well my new center pontoon with motor mount is going to be ready today late or Friday. You purists out there may be aghast, but I went unconventional. No round pontoons available locally so I had a twenty foot aluminum(1/8) boat built.

Its 20 foot long, 24 inches wide, and 24 inches deep, a with a motor mount on the stern to hold the new Honda. It was cheaper than I could get one built in Ohio and its local. Oh and the lifting strakes are built in the flat bottom hull, NO wings.

I know, I know get the pics !

Yep... PICS!

Ok yahoo whoopii , She's home! Now who wants to come over and put this together so I can sit back and admire the good job?

Oh!, of course we are having a monsoon here now and it's raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock!

Oh I forgot some pics




If you look close you might see some damage to my five sheets of decking. Let me tell any of you that may be getting pontoon stuff, shipped from any vender. Make sure you are there to receive the shipment to look for damage. The truck driver dropped this off at my "commercial addy" without letting me know. The folks there were doing me a favor by letting me use their address, and didn't know to inspect close enough. I have two corners that are going to be hard to make do. PS is making it right and I applaud them for responding to my problem.

Don't forget to shine the toons why you have them lose and east to shine

Yep I have been working on them, getting the bottoms cleaned first so the rebuild can go forth!

Good looking center tube. Should provide some extra lift.

Some update pics, decking is on now

WHere did you get the center toon built at, Im looking at doing the same thing, and love the way your's turned out. Im in east Texas, and have looked around there is a guy in MO that has them, but if I can get it here in Texas that would be awesome, and if you don't mine me asking what it cost to have it made
Thanks