TIBF Release Boat Upgrade

The TIBF release boat was starting to look pretty ragged again, so the TIBF Board decided to upgrade / repair the release boat for the Federation's 2012 conservation project. Scyler Hill set it up so that we could work on the release boat indoors at the new Freightliner shop in Twin Falls.

Donations

A big thanks to the people and companies that donated time and/or material to the upgrade and repair of the TIBF release boat.

EPS (Woody), Coolwater Construction (Brandon Craner), Conservation Seeding & Restoration (Kevin Osborne & Steve Paulsen) and Larry Luper donated the wood for the new deck.
Gentry Floors (Steve Gentry) donated the carpet glue.
Magic Valley Bass Masters donated the carpet.
Scyler & Jeanne Hill donated the electrical panel, wire, and boat cover.
Freightliner of Idaho donated the labor to paint the console and panels as well as letting us use their new shop so we could work on the boat indoors.

Volunteers

Thanks to the TIBF members that gave up their time to help with the boat upgrade:

Scyler Hill, Hunter Hill, Kurt Campbell, Brandon Craner, Dale Jarrell, Kevin Osborne, Steve Paulsen, Jim Woods(Woody), Brett Rue, Larry Luper, Bruce Flesher and Steve Day

	Rails removed, getting ready to unbolt the water tanks.
	New gas tank sitting on old tanks, preparing to remove water tanks.
	Ummm... Nice carpet and floooring.
	Water tanks unbolted and ready to remove.
	Old carpet removed, preparing to remove old flooring.
	Old carpet foreground, new carpet in roll in background.
	The fiberglas covering the old flooring made it difficult to remove the mounting screws.
	Water tanks removed for the upgrades.
	Making plans for floor removal.... Where's the forklift?
	Nice flooring.
	Removing trashed floor.
	Floor gone, removing screws and cleaning rails.
	Floor gone, removing screws and cleaning rails.
	Floor gone, removing screws and cleaning rails.
	Floor gone, removing screws and cleaning rails.
	New wiring cable laid out ready to install.
	Adding aluminum strapping to strengthen floor.
	Adding aluminum strapping to add strength to floor.
	New decking material, ready to install.
	Side view of new decking material.
	Installing first of two layers of flooring.
	Another sheet of plywood going on.
	Second layer of plywood going on.
	Second layer of flooring on.
	Lining up the supports for screw holes.
	Looking good.
	Drilling and counter-sinking screw holes.
	Installing screws.
	Hunter showing us how it's done.
	Shiny new console... very nice!
	Positioning new console on deck.
	Drilling console mounting holes in deck.
	Positioning rails on new deck.
	The guy running the glue trowel has an audience.
	Applying carpet glue to the rear deck.
	Rolling out the new carpet.
	Scyler showing off his log rolling skills in flattening the carpet.
	Applying glue to front deck.
	Flattening the rest of the carpet.
	Cutting out the new carpet over pre-cut holes in deck.
	Positioning water tanks in holes in new deck.
	Water tanks installed, lining up rails.
	Locations for new decals being determined.
	Adding the rest of the rear rails to new deck.
	Rails re-installed on rear of boat.
	Rails being re-installed on front of boat.
	Almost done; needs new fuel tank installed, wiring finished and decals installed.
	New decals on side.
	New decals on back.
	Under the new cover and ready to go!