Sure will! Have to get before pics and after pics later. He has the floor, seats and rod boxes torn out of it right now! I had an old Skeeter built in gas tank he is going to put in it. He is also adding a live well.

Its my first boat at 55 years old and an old boat but I am thoroughly enjoying it. It's perfect size for me for what I want to do as a recreational fisherman. Nice thread, thought I would pitch in !

2003 Triton TR-186 150 Merc XR6

Loved my Tr-186!! Should have kept that boat. If I could find another I'd be all over it!!

Here's my recently updated 1993 Procraft

The champion made me need to take a cold shower.

Me, too! My relic is a 1958 BlueStar 14 SuperChief, made in Miami, OK. All-riveted aluminum, and super-strong. I cut the gunwales down about 6 inches, removed the middle seat and built a flat deck to make a Low-Tech Poling Skiff. Now powered by a Yamaha 15 4-stroke. Great skiff for the marsh and flats. IslandJim

Excellent craftsmanship Jim! Did you get rid of the old outboard (looks like a Johnson, but not sure)?

A couple pics of the 99 Triton after Steve worked his magic on it....

rb7764: A 1961 Johnson 5.5 Seahorse. I gave it and my old skiff( a 1959 12-foot aluminum skiff our Dad bought new) to my sister, who has them in Fort Davis, TX. Not much water out there! IslandJim

Triton looks cool with the sea deck. Wow.

That skiff is a beauty, IslandJim!

Thanks, Cuervo Jones! I bought that raggedy-azzed tin boat and parked it in my RV slot. My neighbors said, "Here we go again!" I started chopping on the boat, and they said, "Yeah, he's really lost his mind this time!" I cut 40 pounds of aluminum off the boat! When I was done, all of them came by and said, you really outdid yourself this time. What's funny, is that I had made a sketch two years before I bought the boat, of what I wanted, and "Tin Star" looks exactly like the sketch. My goal was a copy of an Ankona Shadowcast 16, but in aluminum(and many thousands cheaper). Mission accomplished! A great flats skiff. IslandJim on the Texas Riviera

You could get yourself set up with a tidy little business making custom boats I suspect! Guys that don’t want to shell out the cost of a new house for a poling skiff would probably be very happy to pay you for your craftsmanship.

Cuervo: I'm almost 75, and all I want to do is fish, not build more boats. But, I don't understand why Alweld, Alumacraft, G3, Lund, etc. don't build a lightweight aluminum , flat deck skiff? Like you said, a "Technical Poling Skiff" from Ankona, East Cape, New Water, and many others will run $15K to $50K, all up. One doesn't need carbon fiber and space-age technology to build a light flats boat. Poling towers apparently lose their lustre, also, judging from how many I see for sale on Craigslist. The only people I see on them are guides! IslandJim