Rebuilding a Pontoon for Spearfishing
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:57 am
Greetings to one & all in "toon" land.
From everything I've read over the last month or so on this site - it looks like I've landed in the right place to seek out the answers to my never ending list of questions that have triggered more that a few sleepless night in "lala land".
So I think it's time to get this party started...............
About 10 years ago I started scuba diving and got hooked on spearfishing. I've never owned my own boat & always had to wait for a slot to open up on someone else's. I always made sure I arrived early to help load, stayed late to help clean up & threw cash into the pot for gas money - so I pretty much was able to catch a ride most times. Sometimes not. I needed to change this.
I am now in possession of a 1996 Fisher 220 with a 75 Mercury that I would like convert for diving & spearfishing. It's pretty trashed (parked on a pond for 3 years unused) but seems to be pretty solid (it floats). We have it stripped down to the decking already & will remove that this weekend to start from scratch.
These questions are really just random so please bear with me:
I've noticed on all the "rebuild pontoon sites" that no one has seems to be making dive boat's out of these old relics. Is this a bad idea?
Do I have to add a third pontoon in the center to make it more stable?
The ideal set up is to have the driver with 3 shooters & you rotate "round robin" style. Point is I only need seating for four.
I am not going to replace the "couch's" like when it was new - but just with seats or ?
I was going to place 2 "four tank" racks over the pontoons up front (one on each side) to balance the boat front to back.
I could go on & on with the ideas that I have but this is already a long enough rant so let me stop here for a moment.
I have a "cad program" on this computer to draw out the plans that I want to do & will post pictures this weekend.
My plan for this project is to start now & hopefully be completed by the first of May.
Comments, advice or ideas are more than welcome.
"tanks",
Steve
From everything I've read over the last month or so on this site - it looks like I've landed in the right place to seek out the answers to my never ending list of questions that have triggered more that a few sleepless night in "lala land".
So I think it's time to get this party started...............
About 10 years ago I started scuba diving and got hooked on spearfishing. I've never owned my own boat & always had to wait for a slot to open up on someone else's. I always made sure I arrived early to help load, stayed late to help clean up & threw cash into the pot for gas money - so I pretty much was able to catch a ride most times. Sometimes not. I needed to change this.
I am now in possession of a 1996 Fisher 220 with a 75 Mercury that I would like convert for diving & spearfishing. It's pretty trashed (parked on a pond for 3 years unused) but seems to be pretty solid (it floats). We have it stripped down to the decking already & will remove that this weekend to start from scratch.
These questions are really just random so please bear with me:
I've noticed on all the "rebuild pontoon sites" that no one has seems to be making dive boat's out of these old relics. Is this a bad idea?
Do I have to add a third pontoon in the center to make it more stable?
The ideal set up is to have the driver with 3 shooters & you rotate "round robin" style. Point is I only need seating for four.
I am not going to replace the "couch's" like when it was new - but just with seats or ?
I was going to place 2 "four tank" racks over the pontoons up front (one on each side) to balance the boat front to back.
I could go on & on with the ideas that I have but this is already a long enough rant so let me stop here for a moment.
I have a "cad program" on this computer to draw out the plans that I want to do & will post pictures this weekend.
My plan for this project is to start now & hopefully be completed by the first of May.
Comments, advice or ideas are more than welcome.
"tanks",
Steve