Changing things up
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:40 pm
The more I fish from my toon the more I don't like my seating arrangment. All four fishing seats don't have enough room to spin around freely without hitting the railing and tearing the vinyl..my fix for this in the front is do what I wanted to do in the beginning of my rebuild but got talked outta it. I'm going to extend my rails foward to the very front of the deck, and I'm also going to remove the arm rest at the end of my front couches. This will give me about 4' from the end of the couches to the front gate, I should be able to mount some new bigger and nicer fishing seats where they can spin freely plus add some battery/storage boxes in the front corners. For the rear it's going to be a bit more complicated, first I'm going to need a center tube about 26' long that gives me 2' extra. I'm going to fab some deck extensions on the outside logs and gain about a 1-1/2'..plus with the longer tube I'll be able to move the entire rear fence back and gain about a foot... I know this is alot of work but I'm set on doing it...it's not going to be the first time I modded the rails, so why not! Here is a couple pics of my layout, you can see a stern seat here
You can see how tight it is
You can see my front seats here, there's not much leg room
Here's what I'm trying to copy, I'm going to step down my rails like this to be more fishing friendly
Here is the rear tube extensions, they add about a foot I think, but I can mak mine any size I'll need
You can see how tight it is
You can see my front seats here, there's not much leg room
Here's what I'm trying to copy, I'm going to step down my rails like this to be more fishing friendly
Here is the rear tube extensions, they add about a foot I think, but I can mak mine any size I'll need
