Wolfe64
Super Member
My daughter texts me this morning at 7:15 to go out to the lake, turn right on Lakeshore Road and down the road a ways there is a peddle boat upside down in the ditch.
Reluctantly, because it IS 7:15 AM and I have to go to work, I drive the 7 kms and sure enough there is a peddle boat in the ditch.
It is in a spot where there is no houses, only fields on one side and a bush on the other, so I take it this was abandoned there.
I flipped it over and it is a Pelican Energy boat.
The seat backs are missing and it has a makeshift wooden rudder,some of the rubber banding on the side has come off and it is very dirty.
I called Keely back and said that it needs work and I have no way of getting it home.
She tells me to treat it like one of my turntables that don't work when I bring it home and that her boyfriend is home and will be there in 5 minutes with his truck to take it to my house.
So by 7:45 the boat is sitting in my garage and I proceed to work.
After supper I get the boat up on some tables to work on because I am too old to work on things on the garage floor, get out my heat gun and stretch the rubber back into place.
We flip the boat over and there is some REALLY strong ducttape on some of the bottom ribs.
After peeling all that off there is a few spots where the ribs have been worn a bit from dragging the boat and 1 spot that has a 6" crack in a rib.
I am thinking of going to get some fibreglass to repair that and build up the other spots.
If anyone has another idea on how to fix that I'm all ears !!!!
Mrs. Wolfe and I have been thinking of buying one of these for while and were just waiting to see if we could get a bargain on one.
Go figure. The things you find at the side of the road..........
Mark
Reluctantly, because it IS 7:15 AM and I have to go to work, I drive the 7 kms and sure enough there is a peddle boat in the ditch.
It is in a spot where there is no houses, only fields on one side and a bush on the other, so I take it this was abandoned there.
I flipped it over and it is a Pelican Energy boat.
The seat backs are missing and it has a makeshift wooden rudder,some of the rubber banding on the side has come off and it is very dirty.
I called Keely back and said that it needs work and I have no way of getting it home.
She tells me to treat it like one of my turntables that don't work when I bring it home and that her boyfriend is home and will be there in 5 minutes with his truck to take it to my house.
So by 7:45 the boat is sitting in my garage and I proceed to work.
After supper I get the boat up on some tables to work on because I am too old to work on things on the garage floor, get out my heat gun and stretch the rubber back into place.
We flip the boat over and there is some REALLY strong ducttape on some of the bottom ribs.
After peeling all that off there is a few spots where the ribs have been worn a bit from dragging the boat and 1 spot that has a 6" crack in a rib.
I am thinking of going to get some fibreglass to repair that and build up the other spots.
If anyone has another idea on how to fix that I'm all ears !!!!
Mrs. Wolfe and I have been thinking of buying one of these for while and were just waiting to see if we could get a bargain on one.
Go figure. The things you find at the side of the road..........
Mark