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| Sorry all,
Looking to make/fashion a cover for my transom well (No idea if that is what it is even called) that would potentially extend my casting deck and create less of an eye sore with wires/hoses etc...
If anyone knows what the &$%# I am talking about and can chime in with what they have done or pictures, that would be great!
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| Splash well, on my dads boat we made a rear deck that went over the splash well, but must figure you may be rather high out of the water and that can make figure 8's harder.
Depending on age/value and plans for the boat we should have cut most of that particular splashwell out and just made the deck shorter and full size, but that is hindsight 20/20 and the knowledge that water was never really in the splashwell to begin with so, think your plan through about 5 times over and do it |
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Location: Cedarburg, WI | I know what you're talking about. I made one for an old Mirrocraft I re-furbished. I used the front of the pan as the spot to level from, then fashioned (4) wooden wedges to support a doubled up plywood and carpeted "deck". The wedges were made using 1" pine on edge that fill in that space (between the top of the front part of the transom well & the transom area around the motor. Mine is a tiller, but would make no difference. It works out great for the guy in the back. I'll see if I can find some closer up pictures tonight if nobody comes up with something by then. |
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| Softwater - 4/3/2018 4:32 PM
I know what you're talking about. I made one for an old Mirrocraft I re-furbished. I used the front of the pan as the spot to level from, then fashioned (4) wooden wedges to support a doubled up plywood and carpeted "deck". The wedges were made using 1" pine on edge that fill in that space (between the top of the front part of the transom well & the transom area around the motor. Mine is a tiller, but would make no difference. It works out great for the guy in the back. I'll see if I can find some closer up pictures tonight if nobody comes up with something by then.
This sounds more like what I was looking for. Cutting out the rear deck and splashwell would be great like stated above. I am just not up for that big of a project at this time. |
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Location: Cedarburg, WI | I looked for photos quick, and nothing (so far) detailing the deck itself. I can ask my BIL to take some pics this weekend as the boat is in storage at his place, and he's going up.
The whole thing easily comes out as one piece so I can access things below the pan (boat plug, starting motor battery, etc.), and there is room for wires, controls, gas lines behind the wedges. There is also a chair base mounted to the top of this deck with a column below the deck that goes right to the boat floor (to transfer the weight of whoever's on the chair and take the extra pressure off the existing pan). I made mine overhang the front of the splash pan a couple of inches to provide a little bigger deck and provide room for the pedestal support column. Very stable walking all around the motor with the couple of wedges transferring weight to the pan. It works great for me. I'll attach pics when I get them. |
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| If I knew where my dads boat was parked I could take pictures of the simpler way that we did |
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Location: Cedarburg, WI | Hope I attach these pics correctly.
This should be the empty pan...
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 Empty Pan.pdf (105KB - 465 downloads)
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Location: Cedarburg, WI | And the deck flipped up so you can see the wedges & structure underneath...
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Deck Flipped Up.pdf (113KB - 482 downloads)
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Location: Cedarburg, WI | And lastly, the deck installed...
(On the first pic, you should be able to see the support blocks on the sides to keep the front of the deck secure if you walked on the front edge).
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Deck Installed.pdf (119KB - 521 downloads)
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| Looks functional! |
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| Not that I have a need for something like this, but...it looks amazing! Nicely done! |
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Location: Tinley Park, IL | Nice job. |
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Location: Madison, WI | Buddy built two that filled in both back edges. Dont have pics as he sold the boat but he used trek decking for material and built it big enough so that it wedged into the gap and didnt have to screw it into anything. |
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| Yeah that looks pretty sweet! |
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