Hiatus Over!

Well, let's see what happened since June of 2015?

We bought a new house & car, had two wonderful kids, and changed jobs. So really not too much, right?! This spring, with a little encouragement from my wife and dad - it was time to get the boat done.

The boat has been stored in 3 different locations (and still interested in a better one) since we last made any tangible progress. A lesson I learned early is that a project like this can be insurmountable without help. That help came in the form of parents and friends over several weekends in 2015. I am very appreciate of this but realized it may be time to work with a pro this time around to get it done.

Enter, Lee Schroeder, of 5 Sixty 3 Sound Solutions. Lee is an old friend of mine from our days of working at Best Buy over 12 years ago.  He installs just about anything with a wire and has a gift of doing custom fabrication work for vehicles, boats, and more. You will see in the future posts, he does outstanding work!

We got started over the week of June 18-22. My ambition was to take the week off work and focus on getting this boat done. As you learn with any project, it was significantly more involved and has taken much more time than just one week of hard work. I guess you could say that we have lived two motto's during this summer:


"If its worth doing, its worth doing right" 

"Overkill is the only thing considered as a job well done"


That has been our theme and have made outstanding progress.Five weeks later, we are closing in on the home stretch.

I didn't take the time to update a blog after each work session so rather than posting random photos and descriptions, I decided that I will create a post for each area of the boat we transformed. Hopefully, I will have enough pictures of  "before, during, and after" to showcase the great work.

Pictures and much more info will be coming soon!

- Tim