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Farlane94 wrote:so for the people who have done this themselves or had a friend do it, how much would this cost for all the building materials?
Depends if you have a construction site in your backyard or not. It cost me and a buddy $100 for hardware as the wood was "ahem" free
We did it to a 14ft tinny with a shallow V hull and we were a bit scared of how tippy it was. Had the front casting deck on it and all but not enjoyable as every cast we were checking to see if the other stayed in the boat or not. My advice would be to look online for some older 16ft boats and fix it up.
Oh and wide body hulls are very nice to work with.
Now the livewell thing is the same as RJ...works great plus it still holds yer beer afterward!!
Fishing isn't a matter of life and death....
It's much more important.
I remember morphing our first boat from a 14ft & 20hp. tiller to a console and 35hp. Added flooring, decking, seats, 2 gas cans 2 batteries, bow trolling motor.
Sure looked fine.
Too bad I damned near turned it into a submarine. The boat sat lower in the water with all the additions.
Not all 14ft boats are the same, but if your looking, I look for a 16ft that had some or all of the features your looking for. In the end the boat will be safer.
Plywood 1 4x8 sheet.....roughly 50 bucks...not 100% on that cost.
Carpet...your call....go as cheap as ya want....I think mine cost me $60...
Basically glue and staples....steal from your old man's toolkit...
It's cheap to do and with the right boat it is great......I have enough storage under mine that I can get under it and close it.....I store a full sized muskie net under it and is a bigger deck than 17 foot bass boats have.......
Tough to beat if you fish small water and love to flip.
You have all winter, just steal a nice bassboat in the USA,with a blown motor,boats are cheap, motors are expensive,then have a motor built for it. Then you know what you have. And you won't spend $30k for a big motor, or be saddled with a $17k plus underpowered dealer pkg. boat.
