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After four days of epoxy resin, I have a new skill.  And apparently well sealed floor panels.  I foresee using this technique to repair a box truck at some point.

I'm leaving the battery issue up to her (her boat).  But what I will do is make it easy to change where she puts the battery.  I'm wiring for the battery to be just forward of the live well, also convenient for a bow mounted trolling motor, but very easy to pull the wires through and relocate...

Here's the casting deck with hatches cut out.  The pedestal seat will be just forward of the openings, still over the flat portion of the bottom, able to reach forward to operate a front transom hand trolling motor (I may need to make her a tiller extension).  Seat won't interfere with the hatch...

Yeah man. Standing up on the deck will be less stable than standing on the "floor", especially towards the front. But on this boat one can stand on the edge of the middle bench and pull up an anchor or trap, so it should be OK. But yeah, always on my mind. I sure don't want to build...

I got the decking roughed in.  Next I need to figure out where to put the pedestal seat and some hatches.

And how!  I've been studying TBN.  I don't fish, so I had to do some research for this project.  I think it was a TBN video that had the ladder idea.

I accomplished the aluminum framing for the casting deck.  I confess that I bought a brand new extension ladder at Lowes for $80.  I cut up the aluminum with a cutting disk on my angle grinder - easy peasy - 1 disk got it done.  I cut the rungs off one section and used them later as uprights.  I...

A friend asked me to convert her jon boat into a mini bass boat.  Not a van or a box truck, but practice in fabrication and figuring out how to build stuff.  The biggest task is framing out the front half of the boat for a casting deck, and I saw a clever idea last night:  Cut up an aluminum...

I'll bet you know someone who knows someone who has an electricians license and someone who has a plumber's license.  One technician can probably refer you to another.  And I'll bet you've done your electrical and plumbing correctly.  I think you should pay a technician to check your work, make...

Is what you seek really still a thing? For context, I'm shopping for a box truck to build out, that I might go in search of a cool place and resettle there.  But it seems that every day I read or see on TV something severely horrifically uncool happening, and hey I thought that was a cool...

I'm hip to that. And my home is simple, solid, and my pension can cover its upkeep as far as the eye can see. It's paid for, and is very nice. It might be the hippest place on earth - I dunno, I really need to confirm that. I think I can turn the house over to a property manager for a few...

Very insightful. I could end up turning the house over to a property manager for a few years.

On my Chevy van I screwed 2" strips of 3/4" plywood to the steel studs - as a place to attach to, and to achieve a uniform contour.  Then I insulated with expanding foam.  For the walls I used tongue and groove cedar, horizontally using liquid nails, and brads to hold stuff in place while the...

Hi gang, and thanks for all the great information so far.  I'm a retired paratrooper, married, no children, no worries, home paid for, etc.  For several years I've been studying lifestyle alternatives.  I've studied several countries as candidates for expat living.  I've studied several...