HOW TO Build a Jon Boat to Bass Boat Conversion! STEP by STEP Instructions!

[@TinyBoatNation]

Dude, where have you been?

[@AdamRyanA]

Everywhere lol

[@mikegentile13]

Love all you learned! I just did my aluminum boat with plywood and want to re do it with aluminum just like you!

[@TheoSison]

Awesome build! How often do you fish?

[@ShaneJMcNair]

I remember when you purchased this boat and did the 1st build. I would not consider it a death trap. It was a functional but a heavy boat. That served you well for the time you used it. You did a fantastic build both times. One was an economy build, and the next was a Deluxe build. Thank you for sharing 🍺🎣

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you for the nice words Shane! 🤙

[@ShaneJMcNair]

@@AdamRyanA 🤜💥🤛

[@mattaneshansley5349]

I totally agree!

[@chrisshreve1736]

Hey Adam, Cool build man!!! I did almost the exact same as you. I wish you lived in NC, I would have you come by and help me with changing mine to aluminum. My boat is a tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd. I was Going to start with the 500 dollar kit on TB and I guess go from there. I heard on TB that aluminum is actually not lighter. I admit it is awesome looking. I would like to know have you noticed a difference? Thanks for the video and inspiration!!! Stay Blessed...

[@mattwilson6463]

Frogs have large pupils! Haha awesome boat. Getting ready to start building my own 1448 Jon boat

[@55azguy]

All your hard work payed off . You have the coolest john boat. Congratulations.

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you Art! 🤙

[@jerrysmith6438]

Hi Adam, a guy after my own heart. Loved the time and labor you put into this video. Really a lot of detail and info for any DIY'er. Coming from an old DYI'er with a fishing Kayak, and years ago used to own an Aluminum Express Bass Boat. What would your Jon Boat just like that, just the Boat Boat Material, everything but Outboard & Trolling Motors and No Batteries Cost me to duplicate your build??? Gestimation??? Thanks Adam... I probably don't have the patients to be as thirough as you!

[@TheSunniside73]

Heck yes 🙌🏼…. You did an Amazing job ! Now it’s time to go have some fun 🤩

[@AdamRyanA]

Heck yes it is!! Once this cold weather crap passes lol

[@downdirty8543]

Nice job buddy! Very clean looking build. I’ve been building out and converting aluminum boats for 20+ years and I’m here to tell you, you did a good job.

[@papilloncycles3463]

Timestamp 18:16 LOL Man, what a huge job. Planning and going with the flow.. This is excellent condensed with a narrative.

[@AdamRyanA]

I’m glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching! 🤙

[@finleywall4381]

You are great at your job

[@tamiang111]

Kerja yg sungguh halus.. Syabas

[@trevorvecchio1068]

You should put a bit bigger cooler wheels on the trailer

[@flyrod1000]

Best build.....best video I've seen.

[@imbranjamil4994]

The best goodjob👍👍👍

[@tristanwood2512]

Awesome job mate. Looks sick.

[@feelingfishytv7332]

How much are these boats when you buy them at the store?

[@jerrysmith7661]

Add a night shot with all of the lights on. That would be cool. Good job I watched the entire build. I will start a new build this spring. But I’m a 62 year old guy. It’ll have to be senior sick.

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you for watching Jerry! 🤙 don’t start a boat in spring, that’s prime fishing time lol

[@pokerman9108]

@adam Ryan. did the cheap foam decking stuff last?

[@AdamRyanA]

Yes it did, still holding strong today

[@stevendacey9428]

Fantastic job! I'm sure you're more than happy with that build!

[@FranksDIY]

Awesome job . I enjoyed watching the build

[@bidkid2020]

It looks fantastic really did a nice job

[@tork62077]

Very impressive!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@mike811ward]

Great job dude

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you Mike! 🤙

[@DCFloridasport]

Watched the whole series and followed along, learned a ton of methods and materials, definitely great editing on the process, anyone who cant follow this and have success isnt watching, congrats man!!!

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you Dc!! 🤙

[@DoubleTFishing]

Great wrap up video, enjoyed watching the build……..still forgot to send a sticker😂

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you For watching man! If you see me out there come check out the boat! 🤙

[@DoubleTFishing]

Oh ya, got some mods I want to do like foam, definitely want to check it out

[@P-Fishing]

👏👏 You did a great job Adam. The boat looks awesome and your daily updates to the boat were very interesting. I think a lot of the viewer learned many of building a fishing boat. Would you build another boat in the future?

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you P! And I hope I could help people out, and I don’t plan on it but I also didn’t plan on rebuilding this one so you never know, if I do this it would probably be a house boat restoration

[@daveJ24]

Your videos are great. I have a jon boat that I would like to build similar to yours, mine has a live well in the center of the boat thats also a bench, don't know if I should cut it out or not, any ideas?

[@BrokeBackBob4559]

Great video and boat looks fantastic. You was keeping track of all weight added so what was the final weight of your installation?

[@AdamRyanA]

Weight video is coming soon

[@artlife6210]

Im so glad you made this video Adam, what a job man, its like a piece of jewelry or detailed sculpture, watching it this way just shows how much love and work you put into this, you should be so proud of it and yourself, and its gonna look sweet in the shed as it will on the water lol!

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you for the nice comment art!! 🤙

[@papilloncycles3463]

BTW talking about going with the flow, in 1987 after tryig to learn to Ollie for like three days one Million times, We went to the beach, and this older Dude said, " pretend you are jumping a wave sideways" One or two minutes later, I had my shoes on and was up and over a curb like magic. Going with the flow...

[@AdamRyanA]

Lol I remember my learning how to Ollie days and just jumping and kicking the board out in front of me lol

[@Aggieland79]

Outstanding build!

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you Aggieland! 🤙

[@mattaneshansley5349]

I was watching your time lapse thinking, this would be amazing if he did a commentary... Done! Possible one of the best bass boat build videos out there. Thanks for sharing the process. My only question is why three batteries? It seems like that big zoom lithium should run your trolling motor and the little Dakota could run your electronics. Maybe I'm missing something?!?

[@AdamRyanA]

I made this video just for you 😜 the garmin black box pulls a lot of power so I wanted it to have its own battery, it also constantly pulls power even not in use so I didn’t want it draining power for other electronics invade I forget to disconnect the battery, also I wanted the trolling motor to have its own battery so I can run it all day without worrying about it, since it’s a lifeline if the big motor doesn’t start, so that’s why I got 3, I’m sitting at 91 pounds in battery weight, which is better then the 120 on the last build, and I’m gonna switch the lead acid trolling motor battery to lithium as well so that will drop total battery weight to 56 pounds once I do that

[@mattaneshansley5349]

@@AdamRyanA Right on. I can't wait to see you put those electronics to use and enjoy all your hard work. Get that camper bed finished and hit the road on a cross country fishing adventure!

[@c.shoefish]

That turned out to be excellent man! VERY well done! Nate and the rest of the guys at TBN are awesome and helped me out a bunch on mine as well.

[@acb4592]

Hey there Adam Im new to your channel and its awesome. Im considering doing something similar with the jon boat to bass boat. Im curious all in how much $ this time around. I know you said you order a lot from tiny boats etc and had certain metal piece done at another place. Im just getting into all this and ive never had a boat b4 so i can really appreciate all youve learnt and done in both builds. I dont think ur first build was a death trap at all. We live and we learn, thats what makes life so great. I totally wouldve done the same thing had i not watched so many videos. Atleast you were able to salvage it. So ya im wonder cost of this build with the plain jon boat. And id like to know if the foam truly helped her sit higher etc. If speed is better too etc because of the foam? Keep up the awesome content and ty for sharing this with all of us.

[@shirleyblock297]

Love your videos Adam

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you!! ❤️

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you!! ❤️

[@joeb260]

I wonder how the white will hold up with dirt? I really enjoyed this video. Well done!

[@AdamRyanA]

It will hold up better then black lol

[@coolissimo69]

Great editing bro.

[@AdamRyanA]

Thanks man! 🤙

[@jackritter4805]

What’s the whole cost for this

[@papilloncycles3463]

I'm kind of interested to know what the total weight of your conversion is vs. the old conversion that you did. My boat has wood decks with carpet and is definitely heavy.

[@AdamRyanA]

I’m weighting it all up right now as we speak lol

[@MG-nz6wh]

What is he using for the rivets? That is huge for sore hands man.

[@kakuusui5578]

Great job.

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you Kaku! 🤙

[@skeeet5758]

Wow. One question does that foam get slick when it's wet...

[@AdamRyanA]

It does not

[@texasreaper3580]

Bro that was an awesome little setup enjoyed watching the whole entire build video now you can probably do the raffle of the real and maybe do some of those lures giveaways but whenever you come down to the coast you let me know and I'll put you on some Reds and speckled trout

[@AdamRyanA]

Ohh I totally forgot about the reel, will have to do it in the first time on the lake video

[@ginahampton2129]

Awesome boat build!! It looks amazing!!

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you! ❤️

[@nbb5026]

Do you have some kind of work experience that helped you build this? Impressive

[@AdamRyanA]

Just building skate ramps as a kid, anyone could do this if they really tried

[@nbb5026]

@@AdamRyanA I'm relatively handy. The framework isn't my concern, but the electrical work looks daunting. Thanks for the quick reply.

[@AdamRyanA]

@@nbb5026 yeah that’s how I felt on my first boat build but there’s a lot of free videos on how to do the electrical on KZbin, it’s not as bad as it looks

[@mjweibel1080]

Would you be willing to share a list of materials you used on the boat?

[@AdamRyanA]

Yeah I can put together a list of the Tbnation kit I used

[@jamesreed9672]

Where did you buy the hatch lids?

[@AdamRyanA]

Tbnation.net

[@Monke1468]

How much would you run me for one of these boats. Only electronics trolling motor and lights

[@Army_Outdoors_88N]

I am just waiting for the launching ceremony with the Champagne 🍾 bottle breaking across the bow

[@AdamRyanA]

Lol I need to remember that! I keep forgetting about it lol

[@Army_Outdoors_88N]

@@AdamRyanA Ill keep reminding you 😆😆😆

[@jiminauburn5073]

Great video. I wonder how long the entire build took?

[@AdamRyanA]

It took about 6 months to complete, but that’s with about 4 weeks of not working on it in between

[@jiminauburn5073]

@@AdamRyanA A long haul, but looks well worth it. Beautiful build that you should be proud of. And it looks like the kind of project that would great fun to take on.

[@themouas]

You are an engineer.

[@MrJustinWheeler]

Frogs have large pupils.

[@gregwitt2796]

Why was the first boat build considered a death trap?

[@nancypham682]

I was gonna build a tiny boat but after watching this video it seems this might be out of my league.

[@AdamRyanA]

I felt the same way, we all feel that way, just gotta start and see where it goes

[@gethiggywitit7338]

Death trap????? Bro I have a 20 yamaha on the same boat. Runs about 23mph. Just dont turn to sharp LOL. I made my first build out of wood. I had freaking termites after about a year. hahahahaha. So now I am rebuilding it in aluminum. Just not the deck. All framing is aluminum. Sheet aluminum is just so damn expensive right now. Great video man.

[@AdamRyanA]

Stay safe on that thing man! Lol and yeah sheet aluminum will empty your wallet, thanks for watching man! 🤙

[@gethiggywitit7338]

@@AdamRyanA for sure. Going with wood deck. Going to resin it and paint it. Should last a lot longer. Then sea deck. The carpet holds water after rain. Take too long to drive

[@christubbe9352]

Boat looks great. Did you know... Frogs have large pupils

[@AdamRyanA]

Really?? They do?? Lol

[@chadheishman]

What about livewell?

[@AdamRyanA]

I didn’t want to put a live well on such a small boat, also didn’t really have room for it

[@jamesstewart2560]

Just seems like after all of this money and trouble you might as well buy a cheap bass boat 😂

[@damnpshe2497]

But here you can build to your exact specifications and have fun building

[@alanpeterkuyathanos6631]

awwwwwwww-sum

[@ginahampton2129]

I hope you never catch one of those huge snapping turtles while fishing out of your kayake or your Jon boat!!

[@steffensieps]

Yeah man, you did an awesome job! I also watch the complete build of the first boat and this time it looks much better!!! But you're right, i think you should take carpet for the next time! 😉 Greatings from germany an go on... 👊

[@AdamRyanA]

Oh yeah, this boat is gonna look amazing with carpet!

[@CBoulware09]

Can you do a price breakdown on everything(boat, trailer, motor, alluminum kit, accessories) so the jealous ones can go to our wives and let them know not to freak out when we spend money on a boat. PS Frogs have large pupils

[@AdamRyanA]

Yes lol I will do my best to get a final price, and make a video, if you’re wife kills you, it isn’t my fault lol

[@CBoulware09]

@@AdamRyanA i appreciate that. If my wife kills me then I couldn't blame you anyways 🤷

[@AlRa-Cej]

Excelente bote! Yo quiero uno…

[@AdamRyanA]

Thank you! 🤙