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| I remodeled my 1996 1890 Pro-V this spring. I thought it would take about 50 hours. It has already accounted for over 150 hours with a couple of hours remaining to finish a few trim items. I will try to post a few pictures. I had a walleye boat that I could muskie fish out of. Now I have a muskie boat that I can walleye fish out of. 9 1/2 foot rod locker which will hold about six 8 to 9 footers (when completed) as well as 20 other shorter rods.
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Location: Central Wisconsin | Nice job! A lot of work, but worth it in the end. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Nice job. I'm just finishing one up myself. I think I would have been way ahead just selling and buying something else. |
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| I was given permission by my wife to look at new boats, I did, $40K just for the boat. Decided to dive in since I really like this hull. Final tally with three new seats, $4K. I can take many trips on the extra $36K!! Very happy now that I did it. You will be too. Just hang in there. |
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Location: Elgin, IL | Thats a peach, Doc
Nice work. |
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| Thanks. You inspired me to do this last year. Finally got around to doing it. |
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Location: Green Bay, Titletown, WI | VERY nice! |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | Any pics of what originally looked like? Nice work. |
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| Beautiful! What an awesome fishing rig. Looks like there was a repower in there somewhere along the way too! |
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Location: MN | Very nice.... been thinking of the same thing for my 94 1775.
Would be a great winter project if I had the room.
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Excellent work! Looks like a great project.
I am wondering though--what condition was the closed-cell foam in? It looks to be in great shape, but sometimes you hear stories of even the closed-cell foam taking on water after year and years. Did you find any of that? Also, did you find any corrosion in the aluminum--especially where the longitudnal members (stringers, I-beams) meet the hull skin?
Looks like you did an outstanding job though--hope you enjoy fishing out of the boat. Thanks for posting the pictures!
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| I was pleasantly surprised by the shape both the aluminum and the foam were in. I could not detect any moisture in the foam even adjacent to an area where I had dryrot in the floorboards. The aluminum was as if new. No corrosion was noted. In the first two pics I had already cleaned away any old carpet glue but did not clean the support structure. If you zoom in you will see that it is only dirty. I also checked very close for loose rivets and was not able to detect any. Truely a well built hull. Kudos to Lund in the 90's! To answer a previous post, yes new E-Tech 4 years ago. |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | Real nice. Amazing work. |
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Location: MN | Doc, what wood did you use on the storage compartments? The one lid where the wood is exposed does not appear to be treated ply, though it may be marine ply, not sure what that looks like. If it is not treated, did you seal or stain it at all, or not concerned about eventual moisture breakdown? Overall a fantastic job. |
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| It is 3/4 inch marine plywood treated twice with fiberglass resin on all sides and edges. Interesting note is that the wood I removed had some sort of treatment on only the surfaces which were covered by carpet or vinyl. The undersides seemed to be free of any coating. |
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Location: Cedar Falls, IA. | I did a similar project on my jon boat putting in casting decks in front and rear. You actually don't want to use treated lumber with aluminum the chemicals in it react with the metal. All the lumber and decking used on my project have 3 coats of spar urethane applied. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Nice work! |
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| from the musky show till now a lot of work has been done. This time we go out its your boat! Great job D.S.  |
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