The Pink Flamingo in Arizona

I’m not sure if remodel is the correct term or not.  The front cabin and windows, steering wheel and console, wiring to the engine, and engine and outdrive or still original and untouched.  In this process the head was moved, cabin pushed out and back, 90% of the AC wiring redone, gas and water tanks moved and replaced, hell even the holding tank was moved.  Although the holding tank was then moved back to the original location which was really a shitty job (sorry for the pun LOL).

To keep a long story short as short as I can after 10+ years of owning The Pink Flamingo and having lots of fun on it my friend Jimmy finally got sick of me talking about remodeling it and cut off the old railings (half of which were broken anyways) and got the process rolling.  A friend had done a similar remodel 15+ years ago which I was always envious of how much room he had in his after pushing the cabin out and to the back of the boat.

We built the walls up out of 2×4 for strength (yearly we put a band and about 20 people ended up on top of the boat so it had to be strong) and 1/4″ plywood with a fiberglass sheet glued to that.  Similar to how they build many RV’s.  The 3 walls were built ahead of time at a friends place  and on the day (May 31, 2008 I believe) that we were going to start ripping off the old cabin we had over 15 friends who showed up to help.  In 1 day the old cabin was cut-off, new cabin put in place, and the roof rafters and sheeting were installed.  Not bad for a days work.  At the time I figured it was going to be simple, little did I know 5 years later I’m still trying to finish it (and still wasting money on it).

These are the pictures of the start of it.  I wish I would have taken better pictures and documented the process while we were doing it.  But shortly after the cabin was installed the rain started for weeks it seams and our lakes were so flooded that the parking lot was 1.5 feet deep under the boat.  Which greatly slowed the progress on it the first year.