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Oct 4, 2022 15:48:52   #
Billycrap2 Loc: Mason county,W(BY GOD) Virginia, πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ¦…
 
Moscooter wrote:
The fishing boat I bought several months ago, needed some "mods" to be like I wanted it to be.

First of all, in my opinion was a very poor engineering of the rear boat seat location. I did want to maintain a shorter boat length overall so as to be able to keep the boat in one of my garage stalls and not have to pay for storage fees monthly.

So this model plants the rear boat seat pedestal right smack up against the big motor. This causes multiple problems, you can't trailer down the road without removing the seat and pedestal to allow the big motor to tilt up for trailering. Not only that, you can't even "slightly" trim it out.......like if you're trolling near the shore line and happen to come to a halt cause the big motor has bumped up against a submerged stump or log.
Usually when that happens, you just hit the trim switch and tilt it up some and then you can use the trolling motor and keep going.
Well, you couldn't trim the big motor more than about 4-5", and bang it is right up against the seat. In addition, my wife when seated rearward to fish would have her feet right into the big motor hoses and drain well.
I might add that this boat came with NO forward mounted trim switch so that while I was up front in my own boat seat, I could reach down and hit the trim switch.
So I designed a seat pedestal modification and purchased a caster wheel. Took my boat and design to local welder guy and for $80, he fixed it up as I wanted.
Here is a picture of my new set up and also the trailer steps I bought to save my old azz when climbing into the boat during a launch and/or re-trailering to leave

So I also purchased a trim switch for the front end and now that is installed as well.
The fishing boat I bought several months ago, nee... (show quote)


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