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| In my quest to make my 1760 the ultimate small boat salmon boat....one of the last pieces of the puzzle is to find a way to secure my cooler/fish death box/stationary rod holder from falling over or bouncing onto the nearest person. Imagine a 45" X 18" white monstrosity covered with rod holders and filled with sodas, waters, dead or dying fish, and 40lbs of ice.....it's a lot to keep in one place.
My question is IF I figure out a way to bungee cord or ratchet strap the coffin to the front cleat, is the 100lbs of weight + drag from the net and rods with dipseys and flashers pulling the wind...is that going to be enough to pull the front cleat from it's mooring? |
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| Slamr-I would look under the the bow deck and make sure there are fender washers on the underside of the cleat. I was installing my bow-mount sonar and discovered that my cleat did not have any...It now does..You said you had Tuffy drill some drain holes,,Exactly were did tuffy drill your drain holes?? |
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| In the corners of the storage compartments.
Thanks for the heads up on the cleat issues. |
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| Slamr,what year is your 1760? Mine is a '99 and I don't understand why you don't mount rod holders to the gunnel cap and use the under floor cooler and livewell.Works for me. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | fibtat - 7/7/2008 2:55 PM
Slamr,what year is your 1760? Mine is a '99 and I don't understand why you don't mount rod holders to the gunnel cap and use the under floor cooler and livewell.Works for me.
He has a GC model. There is not cap on this boat.
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| fibtat - 7/7/2008 2:55 PM
Slamr,what year is your 1760? Mine is a '99 and I don't understand why you don't mount rod holders to the gunnel cap and use the under floor cooler and livewell.Works for me.
Actually, I have rod holders that are rail mounted for when rods are IN the water. 6 downeasts and 3 holderson downriggers. But we carry 10+ rod when salmon fishing, ranging from 7'6" to 10'. That's a lot of rods bouncing around when driving from the harbor to the fishing grounds for the day. Therefore you need the "rocket launcher" type rod-holders to keep these rods from tangling together and basically becoming a monster mess. So, instead of mounting these rod holders onto the places on the boat that they would fit, and thusly having 10+ very ugly looking rod holders into places that will then be taking up space 95% of the time, I put these on a monster cooler which comes in and out of the boat for when I'm fishing for salmon or other species. |
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