Fishing for a new project

With the go-kart being done, it's time for a new summer project. A boat! It's too bad I wasn't thinking or I would've taken some before pictures of what it looked like when I brought it home. I might have something that's representative though, I'll have to look.

It'smy father-in-law's boat but had been loaned to his company for employee use for the last decade or so. Over the last 5 years it fell into disrepair and ended up being stuck behind the warehouse and unused for the last three years. It wasn't even seaworthy for that matter.

I thought I'd ask if I could fix it up and drop it into the water at their lake cabin, and got permission. So off we go!

It's a 16' '88 Lund fishing boat with 3 wooden seats in it and a 15HP Yamaha 2 stroke. It came with a trolling motor but that looks to be a piece of junk, and wasn't mounted correctly anyway.

Fixed thus far:

• Removed and threw away 3 unmatched, broken plastic seats that were screwed to the wooden seats.
• Removed and tossed old seat tops, made new ones out of oak plywood and coated with 4 coats of urethane.
• Removed and threw away really crazy wooden mounting "thing" for the trolling motor.
• Cut off engine lock
• Removed 2 broken transducer mounts
• Threw away rotten, holey cover
• Removed (maybe?) working transducer. No fish finder on the thing anyway.
• Removed all hardware related to the rear seat "conversion" performed by previous maintainer. This one was a good concept, but not the greatest in execution. All the floatation foam was hogged out of the rear seat, non-green treated plywood was cut and glued/silicone sealed/bolted/screwed into the inside of the seat like a box, and the seat was put back on using a hinge and a really undersized latch (which was broken). I guess this was so you could store your crap under the seat. If the boat ever tried to sink it would dunk the engine and sit bow-high in the water. Not a good idea and not safe.
• Buffed paint - BLEH. Buffing. Phooey.
• Removed numerous decals
• Sanded & painted trailer
• Removed and threw away old trailer skids and made new ones
  
• Replaced front rubber roller/bumper
  
• Installed new 2" trailer coupler
• Installed new trailer marker lights
• Cleaned, cleaned and cleaned.
  

Left to do:

• New tires
• Fill rear seat with new floatation foam
• Paint wheels
• New wiring and lights plug
• Registration
• Rebuild engine water pump (doesn't move water - bad bad bad)
• New lower unit seals (they leak)
• Plug holes from removal of multiple transducer mounts
• Get a new drain plug
  
• ....go fishing!

I'll post a few pictures later.