My Dad gave this old River Ox to my Son, Ricky. Ricky and I have been working on it now a couple hours at a time over the past week. He said To turn it into a crappie fishing machine and that set me in high gear. hopefully be done with most of the mods by next week. First one was gutting the old commercial net bow shroud off so we can place a small plywood deck to mount trolling motor on center bow. He is going to be using a transom mount motor with the head turned around. The great thing about this is if he decides to get a true bow mount, we will reuse the plywood or just cut another piece and bolt down into existing holes. Front bench looks a little thin on the fiberglass so I am going to run a 1X8 across it screw it in, and then mount a swivel seat mount base in the center upside down and then stick the seat in the upside down base. That will be like a 4" pedestal on top of the bench. May do the same on rear bench. Motor is a 1996 25 Johnson with maybe 30 or 35 hours on it. This boat was used maybe 5 or 6 times since that motor was put on this boat. Will be a great first boat for Ricky and the boat is thick and heavy and can take a beating.CF