Ao the boat is at my buddies shop, he is going to get it running and break the new engine in for me, he is the local Nautique dealers service man. I have faith that he will do a great job. He did inform me that the distributor I had was an automotive distributor, yay....luckily cadunkle was selling his original Mallory with the ignitor II kit already installed. So I sent that up to the guy and hopefully will have the boat back by this weekend!!

In the meantime, I built the new seat base's for the observer seat and the back seats. I had nothing to go by so I used TnTitan's measurements and worked off those. Thanks Rob! I am looking to hide ballast in the rear seat base so I increased the height of the seat base to match the same height as the observer seat (10.5"). I will of course have to cut the lower half of the seat backs down which works out perfect because the bottom of the the wood on the seat backs is beginning to rot. I built the seat bases out of 1/2" OSB board and put 3 coats of resin on before I glassed them. I layed two layers of glass on them after the resin coats were dry. then I painted them a maroon color. The plan is to actually wrap them in foam backed vinyl but this will work for now.