Aluminum on Sea Nymph Pulled apart at keel.

I purchased an older Sea Nymph Flat Bottom 15.5 ft last summer.
Since then I’ve pulled the thing all over the
west coast. Even Washington to California. I noticed
the Aluminum tubing where it is welded and meets at the
front point of the boat (is it the keel) I was in the Army.
Anyway the weld broke and the boat has split there down to
the ring you use to pull the boat onto the trailer. I did
a Oaky repair jog (no offense intended) and drilled and
used metal screws with an heaver still strip so as to
prevent any further separation. It looks like to me that
this was an older separation and they used some type of
metal weld filler out of a can or something than painted
it the same color to hide the imperfection. I intend to
keep an eye out for any deeper separation into the actual
hull and don’t see any real danger or future problems now
that I’m aware of it and added the repair. What does the
forum think. Ever seen or had a similar concern? Thanks
for being here…I see this is a pretty active forum. Even
though I’ve owned a few boats 16 foot Marlin up to a 28 foot
V-Drive Owens…I still get myself into trouble with boats.

Since I’m the new guy…and 62 years old now, I’ll share
a real stupid one I pulled today. Took the keys out of my
boat while up fishing at Trinity River and Lake past weekend
It has a kill switch attached to it. I either didn’t notice
or could not see the difference when I hooked the kill switch back to the panel. Instead of hooking it to the
kill switch/pull out choke button on the dash, I hooked it
to the horn switch. Me and the dog ran down 2 batteries and
a charger trying to start the dang fishing boat today, before I realized my misstate. Getting dummy tat on my
forehead Friday.

Not to be harsh but sounds like you bought a lemon cleverly jury rigged with JB Weld. Be careful friend.

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Not to be harsh but sounds like you bought a lemon cleverly jury rigged with JB Weld. Be careful friend.

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You can tell that without seeing the rig?

Pics would help though. It sounds like the issue is from bow tip down to the winch eye?

Any way I would take it to a fabrication shop that does aluminum welding. Some aluminum does not weld too well due to alloys but I would suspect any decent fabricator could weld and add an angle strap to the area to reinforce it. It will cost $ but its better to have it done correct rather than screwed and bolted and be wondering if it will last.

As far as the kill switch, been there, done that. By buddy borrowed my boat for the morning and I was going to meet him. He landed it and ran but then tied to dock and took keys and kill. He forgot to re attach the kill. I spent about an hour tracing ignition failure through the motor till I came to the kill tether hanging…

Welcome the IDO.

Welcome to IDO!

I had one spark plug out before realizing the tether was out of the kill switch.

Now a days I boat at night and use the tether so much it’s comes automatic to check it.