looking good so far.

i love my 1648

 

Nice work. Is your boat a Lowe? I think its the same as what I have.

 

Yes it's a Lowe 1648m dunno what the m stands for lol

 

Took her out today for a test run to make sure she sat right..sits great, me and my wife on the front no problem, couple of small leaks where welded rivet holes...more welding...stupid thin gauge sides... Bad news is motor has no forward gear only reverse and dumps gas out of the carb? Buddy of mine is trying to sell me a 60 hp yamaha four stroke I am contemplating it... Percolating the idea lol

 

Box O' Lights
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now waiting on converters and the honda to come in

 

Got the rail built
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Do yall thik i should run four lights in front or am I good with 2?

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Im almost done with the battery box. I just need to make a lid. Then on to the wiring. I am dreading the wiring part. I hate electricity, it makes makes me crazy and i dont understand it. amps, watts, volts, ac, dc, ohms wth!!!

 

And.... The motor is running like a scalded Dog. I didn't have the linkage adjusted right and thats why I didn't have a forward gear...duh. Guy who was supposed to clean the carb rebuilt the carb for free cuz his lackey messed it up when he cleaned it. Anyhow great runnin motor. Thanks Hoopty

 

Looks good :tu:

 

Nice boat man!!! I bet your wife can't wait to go fishing!!:drunk:

 

I think she is going crazy waiting for me to get done,! Yeeyee!

 

Got the lights hard mounted And couldn't resist hot wiring them to the battery. They are really bright and bad to the bone. I decided needed four more lights. two more for the front and two in the back .We are painting the boat now and don't lack much to be fishing. I still have to hard wire the lights and finish the battery box. The honda came in finallY. it is ridiculous quiet. We have a general 6000 we had contemplated using but I'm glad we bought the Honda

 

Paint department(wife/ Nikki Stanley) got done today and I'm very satisfied I think it looks great . I got all the wiring done and it made me crazy! All I have left is to refit everything and go fish. Yee yee!
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Finally done..well as done as I can get right now still waiting on 4 more lights. We went to Martin lake last night but it was crazy foggy and a cool front pushed the tilapia deep I guess . But we shot some needle nose and a couple carp

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Where u located?

 

Looks sweet I had the same boat. U can go about anywhere with them and we fished 3-4 no problem. Nice work!

 

We live in hallsville , and yeah I went a bunch more places than my buddy's 1860... At the same time we didn't wobble or wibble on his though lol

 

So how'd the 27's do on Martin.

 

Well it was so foggy that I couldn't get a real idea of how they performed. It seemed like when we were in a cove and the wind wasn't blowing the steam sideways they did well .

 

I had the 27's on my old boat and they worked well but I built a 1648 this winter and went with the 50's and I like them a lot better. It actually took about 3 of the 27's to put out the amount of light 1 of the 50's does. You will be fine with the 16 -27's you have the 50's just cut down on wiring and the spacing of the lights.

here is my setup.

 

How does that 25hp move that thing? I just bought a 1648 with a 30 on it (havnt even had it on the water yet) and am concerned that after I deck it, the motor won't have the balls to get it up on plane. You do ok with it? Thanks

 

Pushes it fine haven't gps'd it sin e I put all the stuff on it but it gets on plane. I had it at 28mph before everything was put on it.

 

Cool thanks, if I can get it on plane that is all that will matter. Going to use this boat instead of my 19' Champion with a 200 on it. Gonna need to get used to 25mph instead of 65. Pay off is going to be getting in those back areas tho and getting those silvers to jump too!

 

Gotta love a champion though. I have an old one and my brother has one not a bass boat out there that rides as smooth and you don't have to slow down in heavy chop.

 

Ya for sure. I can run through 2' waves like nothn at 50 plus, just drop the bow a bit and rock and roll. It is fun to watch even some pleasure boaters try and keep up with us on the Illinois river. And that's with a 55 gallon drum full of silvers on the bow!

And post up Badtx on how she does. Thanks!
Waters finally started to get soft again up here so we will be out soon....

 

My 25 pushes great ... Full gear me and another and we plane out right after half throttle .... I was really surprised at how fast we were going. I will put it on the GPS next time we go out