old mini boat rebuild

[desertrat]

First post this is my 8ft mini boat. Bought off craigs list years ago just finished. Was siting in barn no lye for close to forty years had to put on new deck and a lot of sanding and painting. Happy the way it looks know
hard part was hooking up linkage to motor running 8 hp evinrude until, I see how this go's. tryed to bring back what orignal owner built. Not a hotrod but pretty cool hope I posted in right thread. sorry for picture format still learning site will hvae to post twice to show finished picture.

[desertrat]

ok hears finished boat pictures hop you enjoy

[rjdubiel]

Welcome to S&F. Cool little project, now I would have loved that thing when I was younger, ran one of my dads buddies for about 3 minutes when I was 10 and my dad must have though that was a bad idea since I bothered him for years for something like it.

[desertrat]

Thank you it was fun bringing back to life thanks for welcome

[Robby321]

Looks great nice work! I got a 8 ft Minimost I restored here and still working it! Little boats are STILL fun!

[desertrat]

looks great yea there fun to mess with have plans for a mini hydro want to do what you did on deck. thinking maple old fahioned race boat.

[89LASER]

I grew up with the 8' Mini-most and then the 12' Maxi-most.

[Robby321]

I grew up with the 8' Mini-most and then the 12' Maxi-most.

And "need for speed" hit with 2/4 footitis, and "more power"! Its all good!

[Robby321]

looks great yea there fun to mess with have plans for a mini hydro want to do what you did on deck. thinking maple old fahioned race boat.

Looking them pix what long shaft motor on it as rigged? I got a 8 and 15 SS Rude for the Mini. But I see no prob with the your "homemade" jack plate for a LS, but I would do a glassed end knee brace for simple "solid" The one on mine will hold any motor that don't sink it a launch. And my Merc guru here (were same age now, in our 60's) a kid had a Minimost, and the a 45 4 cyl Merc assend?! Got some pix in the house it.

Have fun with it! Thats what "getting wet is all about"! And welcome to S+F, as "we dig chit like this"! Not "buy it, built BUILD IT"!

[desertrat]

Thanks every body for welcoming me to forumn. I didn,t grow up with the mini's but I did see one on a river in salem oregon always wanted to build one' I am 56 yrs youg but know I have one ha ha I also have A 1978 Brendella jet boat 460 loves gas. The moter on the mini is a short shaft some time I will take better pictures of rigging thanks for the interest

[Robby321]

Thanks every body for welcoming me to forumn. I didn,t grow up with the mini's but I did see one on a river in salem oregon always wanted to build one' I am 56 yrs youg but know I have one ha ha I also have A 1978 Brendella jet boat 460 loves gas. The moter on the mini is a short shaft some time I will take better pictures of rigging thanks for the interest

Salem huh? Got friends down there, and I'm 21 years here Puget Sound after 44 years midwest. Plus one from there retired and living by you also. Big world, but "small boats forever"!

[desertrat]

Yea salem when I was 12 yrs old any way it is a small world my sister lives in seatle or should say across the sound. Mini's are great .

[Li'l Toy]

When we were kids in the early 60's my brother and I hung out at a local launch ramp--brother had a Minimax my Dad and I built, I had an 8' "barge", but I swear one of the group we hung with, who towed his boat behind a bicycle something like 20 blocks to meet us, had that same hull.

[desertrat]

Lil Toy you probably don.t remember the name of this hull and neither do I. When I got this boat the guys son who sold it to me told me the name but I don't remember any body have an idiea what this mini was called. I saw a videow on u tube about the past where a kid towed a mini behind his bike to a lake pretty cool.