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Location: Cave In Rock Illinois | Need suggestions on a mount for my kicker. Stratos Fish N Ski, should i get a fixed mount or drop down Garelick or panther style mount?
Edited by slammer1! 2/3/2012 7:23 PM
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Never heard of anyone actually putting a kicker on a bass boat. I would be extremely leery of doing that if I were you, a bass boat is not made for a kicker. |
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| it can look funny, but people find ways to do it all the time.
the rub really comes in getting enough transom space to accept the mount or lift. the bouncing or vibration while on the trailer or running on plane is probably the toughest thing on the mount, so it needs to be secured somewhere that can handle it.
measure your available mounting surface carefully and look at your options.
http://www.garelick.com/obmbtable.html
http://www.marinetechproducts.com/pages/Brackets,SpacersPlates/
another route that some people choose is to buy or make a custom set-back plate for the kicker that is mounted to the main motor's mounting bolts. this gets around the transom issue nicely.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | DO be cautious about mounting a kicker on a bass boat, for several reasons. Many bass boats do not have a transom all the way across, in fact very few do. Therefore, the laminate may only be hull thickness of perhaps a quarter of an inch max or much less, which is not intended to carry the stress and weight of a kicker motor and mount. At the very least, make sure you back the bolts on the inside of the hull with a one piece aluminum or FRP block plexused to the hull that spans the bolt pattern by more than 4" on both sides, and is at least 3" high.
Another concern is weight distribution and what the kicker may do to performance when the hull is running off the pad or on, especially in an emergency stop situation. |
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