It finally happened. I pulled home a 1996 Ranger R70!
Its mostly in pretty good shape, but I suspect it has been fished pretty hard since its loaded with a nice amount of accessories.
It has a 2001 125 Mercury ELPTO that appears to come off of a Tracker boat based on the cowl decals.
As far as accessories it has:
80 lb 45" shaft Ultrex w/ iPilot
Humminbird 898c upfront
Humminbird 997c at the console
MinnKota MK330D 3 bank charger
2 Optimum Blue Top Trolling motor batteries
Hydrowave
Deck Extension
I am making this thread because I am going to do some relatively simple upgrades and couldn't find many details online about the specific upgrades I am wanting to make.
1) FIRST I am going to add a keel guard. It is very clear that this boat has seen some hard beaches. There are a few spots on the keel where the matting is showing that range from 0.5 to about 1.5 inches in length (almost kept me from buying the boat). Fortunately, a guy in our bass club does gel and glass work and all of the areas can be repaired and covered with a keel guard.
2) I am going to add a recessed trolling motor tray. Based on whats out there on the web, there is not a lot of room under the deck to add a tray as the front livewell goes really far up. I plan to add some measurements and nice pics to the web for others to use as reference to avoid losing any structural integrity and to avoid getting into the front livewell (I may convert this livewell to some kind of storage).
3) The boat has a bench seat with a single 6" tear in it. Additionally, its not a big boat and could use some more storage space. So, I plan to replace the bench with some buckets and add a center console/step. I can only currently find one instance online where someone has replaced the seat with buckets and the measurements weren't very detailed. I plan to leave some space behind the passenger seat to fit a net behind and make a place either under the seat or in the center console where a bump board can slide into.
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