BOSTON WHALER
13 SPORT RESTORATION

And just like that....she's ready for the water. Have a few small things I still need to finish - audio speakers, fix the stern light,...

With the interior all in next step is to complete the wiring. I had pre-wired the dashboard, so this was about wiring through the rest...

Weather is getting better, covid vaccines are being distributed and the lake is calling. I've been making some serious progress over the...

With the boat on the dolly it's time to clean up the top side. Earlier on in the project I started with sanding the entire top side with...

Measure twice and cut once.... It was almost painful cutting into the mahogany dash board. I measured over and over again to make sure...

Picked up a 2001 Mercury 30hp 4 stroke EFI short shaft engine. I only got a few second video of the engine being started, so I'm...

Once I had the boat turned over and in the garage, I could start the work on the hull. This took forever...Started by grinding out every...

This trailer definitely needed some TLC, it rolled fine and I think had the bearings greased recently, but the bunks and rollers all...

I did this before any boat buying, but thought it's worth a post too. After getting quoted $3000 for a trailer hitch installed from the...

After plenty of research online I decided to go with all total boat stuff. Primer, Paint, fairing compound, thinners, etc. Seemed every...

What seemed like a simple problem (how to get the boat off the trailer and turned over), turned out to require a little bit of thinking. ...

It was clear I wasn't prepared for this project at all, so I needed to build some things just to do the work I wanted. That included a...

While sitting in my driveway, which I'm sure my neighbours loved, first I took apart everything that could be on the boat. Actually all...

I guess the lockdown had been getting to me, it's been 5 months and I was done doing puzzles. Found this beauty 1970 Boston Whaler 13...