Thanks for the kind words. I am a bit worried about letting someone
else do anything to it. I don't have any experience with mounting an
engine and controls. I don't think that this is the right boat to use
to develop the skills. ;-)

I'll post more pictures when I have it done. Right at the moment I am
trying to overcome the CFO's (my wife) bad case of sticker shock at
getting an estimate for over 12,000.00 for everything. I had her
prepared for less, unfortunately. She also figured out that the
estimate did not include mounting hardware, etc, for the front seats.

Does anyone have any recommendations as to how to mount the front
seats? I got two bucket seats with it that have the standard 8 hole
mounting pattern. The boatyard guy recommends that we have a couple of
mahogany veneer marine plywood boxes built, then mount the seats on
those. The idea is that the inside of the boxes could be used for
storage. It isn't clear to me how I would get to the storage part of
the boxes with the seats mounted on them. My wife thinks that she will
drive the boat occasionally, so she wants the drivers seat to slide
back and forth. Up and down would be nice, but a type IV cushion should
work just fine. I am 6' tall, she is 5' tall. I want both seats to
swivel so that we can turn them around and faces the back seaters when
we are stopped. This feature will also be handy for the observer when
pulling skiers or tubers.

I am open to all suggestions.

Thanks for all the info provided in this thread.

Roy T.

Gene Kearns wrote:
On 22 Jun 2005 07:37:05 -0700, "
wrote:

Try this one

http://community.webshots.com/user/rthomassen101



That is a beautiful boat! You won't need an engine to pick up chicks
with that thing!......

Keep us up to date with your progress.....

(I can only guess at your trepidation in letting somebody else mount
the engine and controls...)

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