Custom 1965 Correct Craft Mustang build

Well got the boat in the garage and started playing with the motor. Going to the steel depot today to get the aluminum strips for the stringers

turningpoint84 wrote: Did he mean AL strips for the bumpers?

Bumpers?

Yes, and I changed my mind I'm doing it in 3/16 steel. Just have to get off my *** and cut it out and weld it together.

Hussler wrote: Could somebody give me the depth size for the front and rear seat cushions? Not the thickness of the foam but if a seat was a staircase I want the "run" distance. I'm assuming it is 16ish inches, but I want to be sure. I dont want the seats to be too big or small for the size of the boat. Not the base of the cushion but the physical vinyl on the cushion itself. Thanks.

Are you making cockpit seats or bench seats for the front?

Hussler if you can wait till January 1st, i could sell you my original backseat cushions to my 1970, i'm going to place in the fiberglass bench i have on my 1968.

Hussler wrote: turningpoint84 wrote: Hussler wrote: Could somebody give me the depth size for the front and rear seat cushions? Not the thickness of the foam but if a seat was a staircase I want the "run" distance. I'm assuming it is 16ish inches, but I want to be sure. I dont want the seats to be too big or small for the size of the boat. Not the base of the cushion but the physical vinyl on the cushion itself. Thanks. Are you making cockpit seats or bench seats for the front? Hussler if you can wait till January 1st, i could sell you my original backseat cushions to my 1970, i'm going to place in the fiberglass bench i have on my 1968. Bench seats front and back. I appreciate the offer but I'm going to have custom seats made. However I'm the one that is going to make the seat bases that the fabric will be attached too.

Cool, you should incorperate some storage un the back bench seat.

I wouldn't go higher then 6" off the floor though, or passengers will feel like they could fall out of the boat.

Well this is what i've come up with thus far. Pretty boring little project, cant wait until its painted and installed so I can start building the interior. Took some pretty ****ty pictures, once the things are done I will be a little more consise. essentially I did this to avoid lagging in the mounts. Whats holding the mounts in place are stud welded into the baseplate. Then there will be 8 stainless half inch bolts through bolting the plates in place.

Are you planning on putting that seat riser assy on top
of your floor Jim? Here is a picture of how the factory
did mine.Not as deep as you want but the floor creates
a bottom so your stuff don't fall out

LOoks great, keep the pictures coming!

Got the floors rough cut, have to go get some stainless nuts to install the motor mounts, then I can fit the floorboards.

So the boats up for sale, PM me your best offer.

If you've got it pretty air tight insulated, be careful heating with a salamander! All that combustion gas goes right into the room.

Careful with the propane also it will make you loopy. I spent alot of time in tents with propane heat,not all of us had underground trucks with built in heat and air blower.

The garage is anything but air tight, I doubt I would have any safety issues with either. We have run kero and propane at our camp and our neighbors camps since the beginning of time, no fatalities yet! Also very "drafty" buildings.

Hey guys how yalls winter been??

Not really, I'll post up some pics but almost no progress to speak of, too miserable to work in the garage. Also been having a lot of trouble designing the front bench, I'm trying very hard to get it to look "at home". Its going to be very similar to the factory front bench but made out of wood and wrapped in vinyl. I found a lady that said she will wrap everything the way I want it for less than 1K. That includes 2 sets of bench seats with 2 tone red and white pleated seats with black welting AND the front bench backboard, red with black welting. We didnt talk about what type of bolster I want to do but it will probably be flat seats.

Anywho, I bought a nice little diesel truck for the winter/towing, my poor little Jeep is just getting ripped to shreds. I'd like to tow the boat to other lakes this summer.



And a little work done on the boat.




Hopefully I can bring up some newer pics of the front bench soon.