TOPIC: lee craft viking.

Should I just take pieces off this boat or is it worth saving?

Here are two pictures.

Frontal pose.

I'd say it's worth saving. I've never seen one especially w the hard top, plus it's a very unique looking boat.

Almost looks like an Olds Vista Cruiser from the front, which works on the Olds but not here. Will that topper fit on a 1968 Cornbinder pickup?

I am not sure if the windshield is even right looking at the few pictures on the internet some of there boats have rounded windshield s and others flat glass but all of the rounded ones I have seen are one piece. The bottom of the glass or where it attaches is home made. I bought this one for pieces for the runabout I bought but the hull and floor seem extra solid. So not sure whether to scrape it or finish it. I would be kind of fun to have both the runabout was stored in a farm shop for years seems solid just the gel coat needs cleaning up. I have been polishing and waxing half done I rewired the trailer and need to repack the bearings. It needs seat cushions and it will about be done. The motor needs to run yet as well. I need a woodruff key for the flywheel to crank. It had good compression when I pulled it with the rope but when I hooked up a battery I broke the key it was a straight piece of keystock not a woodruff key. So the Viking would be a long project it had a running motor but the sterndrive outer leg is missing. Trailer looks good but would need tires. And the finnish is bad wore threw to the metal flake. So I guess a big sanding job and then paint. What is re gell coating? What kind of paint would one use? How much would a person use or need? If I decide to do this I would want good paint I would only want to do it once. So what is a high quality brand?

It looks to me that a po took a camper shell from a small pu truck, found a windshield that fit pretty well to that, then fashioned a way to mount it to the boat. If it were me, I'd take all that off and then decide whether to save the boat -- which would start with sourcing a new windshield, I think. Hull looks good.

Paul

Yes the junk on top has to go.

I think I may have found a good donor boat the floor is rotted out has a windshield that will fit very similar to the stock one and it also has a Volvo Penta AQ 131C stern drive. Same horsepower as the factory mercury it is complete and seems to run well. Truth to work a deal on it. Best part is it is close by. Anything it should look close at?

Got most of the interesting cabin removed.

Donor boat windshield and stern drive to move over.

Nice. Donor boat hull doesn't look too bad either.

Bob

Floor is rotted out. I would give anybody the hull if they wanted it. It is a fibre form 20 footer. The penta is the wrong one it came with a six not the four cylinder that I am taking out.