I've had the winter cover off Fish Slayer 2 days in a row now, making the improvements that I want to have done before the serious fishing time begins. The weather has been really nice for the past 2 days and so I have been out in the driveway weilding tools and getting ready.
New seats are going in with new posts and bases and the trolling motor gets a quick detach plate and I'm going to raise the level of the front storage areas to the height of the pads on top of the current covers. I've got 1 downrigger already that needs mounted and I want to tidy up the cockpit by removing the ratty black vinyl on the consoles and replacing it with something new. I'm also planning to replace a bunch of the worn out trim fabric on several of the boards around the edges.
Today I pulled out the transition boards on both sides of the cockpit that form a shelf under the gunnels and cleaned them and sanded them and hit them with a spray can of new color. They look 100% better than they did before.
I also realized while I was out in the driveway, working away on my boat, that I was really happy; happier maybe than I've been in a while. I was really enjoying myself, out in my driveway. It felt like maybe I had been waiting all winter just to get outside to play with my boat. It was a really good feeling.
Anyway, there's lots to do and I'm looking forward to having Fish SLayer tidied up and lake ready for a full season of fishing, starting very soon.
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