We bought a $1000 boat and decided to do a stringer up restore of it on YouTube. This is a husband and wife project that will have struggles to restore a boat for the first time, along with struggles that couples may have working together on a project. We show the good and the bad of this project with all the funnies and fun we have along the way.
Install a new or old boat rub rail “Docking Bumper” on your boat. The hardest part if you are reusing the old rub rail in accounting for shrinkage. Even though we reused our old rub rail, it made our boat look so much better. Before we pull the rub rail off, we saw in hanging …
Install Reuse Boat Rub Rail EP #28 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Boat Ski Locker Install In Rebuilt, what’s the point of restoring a ski boat with no ski locker, not much I guess. Here we put in the basic door for the ski locker our 2004 Bayliner Bowrider that we are restoring. In later videos, we will make it look pretty and paint the floor. We …
Boat Ski Locker Install In Rebuilt Floor EP #27 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Inventory Of Missing Parts For Mercruiser that the mechanic lost. This is turning out to be more challenging and expensive than we thought it would. It is like they take a part, then type marine on the front of it, then double the cost. Also, there are many flavors of this 3.0L engine to choose …
Inventory Missing Parts Mercruiser 3.0L EP #26 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Repairing our Box Eye Hook on our boat was a priority, would hate our boat to slide off the trailer going down the road. Doing this on your boat may leave you feeling like a pretzel trying to squeeze your hands between the bow and seat. Once done with this boat project our bow eye …
Repairing Bow Eye Hook On Boat EP #25 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
We install our boat rub rail with rivets and cleaning it up. The rub rail on our boat was very weathered and hanging in some places where it had pulled loose. After getting the rust screws out that were used to fix the Boat bummer trim in places, the installation went very well. Here we …
Install Boat Rub Rail With Pop Rivets EP #24 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Trailer Swing Tongue from Fulton was easy to install and did what we needed. We can now fit the boat trailer in the garage to keep it out of the weather and if you live in an HOA it is a great option. This installation will only take less than an hour if you are …
Trailer Swing Bolt-On Hinge Kit Install EP #23 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
We have been having fun being busy making our 2004 Bayliner Bowrider seaworthy. We have a floor with ski locker cut in, the trailer fits in the garage, and tunes from our kicken marine stereo. Now we are going to sit back and relax as we take in what we have done to our boat, …
Boat Floor In And Radio On, Beer time! EP #22 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Pulled the boat engine wiring harness out of our Bayliner Bowrider 175 and it looks like a rats nest. Wires have been burn, some things have been honkey customized. Spent 3 hours cleaning this up and the results are amazing, I will go into more detail on where the wires run to in the next …
Fixing Boat Engine Wiring Harness EP #17 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
We install the new boat floor and cut in the ski locker today, nice not to walk on planks across stringers. We had to get all the rot out of the floor of this boat, did not take the floor out all the way to the edge of the hull. We used marine 14-inch marine …
Plywood Boat Floor Install EP #21 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Cutting the tongue on your trailer to allow an 18-foot boat to fit in the garage with swing-away trailer kit. There is no reason for a boat to be the only thing in your garage, the simple step will allow room for your car. Stay tune in a later video where we install the swing …
Cut Boat Trailer Hitch Off EP #20 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
