Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

Well to start i'd like to thank all the guys here for sharing all thier knowledge , i've learned alot from Reading, Reading, and Reading. I bought this 1997 Sylvan 24' toon, has a older 200 Mercury that my Boat mechanic Friend checked out and said all is good and didnt looked ever worked on, runs great, was doing 30-MPH, but i had a guy here selling a Water glide for cheap and i installed it now im doing 40 -MPH with a 3 blade prop ,will look into a 4 blade after rebuild,i think will work a little better. i have had it for 1 year and now its time to rebuild with all new Seats , console,side pannels , and carpet, and double tops,can anyone give me a little direction, i plan on ordering all my stuff from here at Pontoon Stuff but i dont see seats other that White and red,blue,yellow,etc , i want to go with the black skin and tan seats do they sell tan seats??

Welcome aboard, hope the reconditioning goes as planned.

Glenn

Welcome and good luck on the project.

In regards to seats. You can only get the few colors shown. That's the reason I went with custom colors from Veada.



Also, may want to make sure and reinforce the transom as I'm assuming it wasn't ever meant for a 200hp motor unless it was already beefed up.

looking forward to watching the rebuild.

Waldo,
Welcome to the forum. If you get a chance post a picture of your water glide on the forum.

I will post Waterglide pics when i returne home , and the transome seems really beefed up it does not budge any i tried to shake it a bit but nothing, i will be home this weekend and finished getting the carpet removed, undecided with the colors yet but i'd like it all to color match ,Seats , New fence paneling,and top.

Hi Waldo

We don't have any seats with black but we do have this new color that is Ivory, Tan & Beige. Thank you for the opportunity!

Well i did get too do a little work on her this weekend pulled the old carpet out and wow what a job, but im a hard headed guy and like to try new things i had a friend try the restore 10X and i did the same and wow looks really good , im from way south Louisiana and it was 100* outside in a full sun and this stuff is thick, i tried this on a scrap piece of wood and then tried to scrap it off instaed it pulled the ply's off t he plywood, so i think this will work, and thanks for the seat info we are leaning to the Ivory,Tan, Gray i think thats what ya had on the pics, so here is a few pics and i did get a copuple pics of the waterglide as somme asked, it will be a month before i get to go back home and do more i'll order all my stuff in this time to be at home when i get back ,again thanks to all

Pics

Waldo,

Thanks for the idea to use Retore 10X !!!

If the decking on my used pontoon is still good, I may use that to save some money!

Tell me, did you just coat the top or did you do the undercarriage as well?

Thanks again!

Well i got a chance to start the rebuild again and in fact i ordered the same Seats that James sent my a pic of just yesterday , the only thing was a few pieces are on back order until the first of the month. i ordered the Black panel sheeting from pontoonstuff and it came out great, and wow the discount saved me between the seats and other stuff i ordered $400, so thanks for the code. the steering helm will be here in the next day or so so i will be able to mount the steering and controls and start the wiring for lights and stuff before i do the under sheeting so here are a few pics

Ok i got a question as you can see my toons are stained but i did was them with alumabrite well something like it but i never buffed a toon before , i did a spot with aluminum rim cleaner like mothers with a can hand held , the one that shakes back and forth, will i need a buffer ? what kind or type and how many rpms , i have looked and read but so many ways can someone direct me on what i need and a method to do this ,thanks

Looking Good Waldo! I didn't polish my logs because I did not want to open that can of worms., I cant help you there but you seem to have it all under control.

Well im about 99.9 % complete have a table and running lights left , but we took "WALDO " out this weekend and so many people thought it was brand new, it made me proud to tell them its a 97 model, i have to thank all here who have posted and helped me along the way, here are a few pics, i forgot to take pics of the underside but i did under skin it using corrugated sheet metal from lowes , came out great and serves the purpose, so THANKS.

Looks really good!

Fantastic work!