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Jon and V Boat Conversions & Modifications
The 1032 "lil Jon"
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<blockquote data-quote="morecoffee" data-source="post: 246563" data-attributes="member: 7747"><p>Made some progress yesterday, permanently mounted my transom mount trolling motor to the bow, rotated the head, and got the plywood supports for my seats treated. Today they will get carpeted and installed to the tops of the benches. Before mounting my Minn kota to the bow, I had several Ideas on a mount for the front and after talking with a buddy of mine at work, he suggested mounting it to the boat...wow what a concept I wouldn't have to spend hours making a mount. The main reason for moving it to the front was to distribute some weight forward, with me 225lb, 25lb trolling motor, 40lb outboard and 50lb group 27 battery out back it was just too much, I'm not sure the 3.5 Mercury will plane the small boat but with all this weight in the back, it surely would never have a chance, so the battery and troller will go to the front.</p><p></p><p>I used two pieces of aluminium angle under the motor for additional support, positioned it as close to the side as possible and used x3 5/16 bolts to hold it in place.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]33898[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]33899[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]33900[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]33905[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]33902[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]33903[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="morecoffee, post: 246563, member: 7747"] Made some progress yesterday, permanently mounted my transom mount trolling motor to the bow, rotated the head, and got the plywood supports for my seats treated. Today they will get carpeted and installed to the tops of the benches. Before mounting my Minn kota to the bow, I had several Ideas on a mount for the front and after talking with a buddy of mine at work, he suggested mounting it to the boat...wow what a concept I wouldn't have to spend hours making a mount. The main reason for moving it to the front was to distribute some weight forward, with me 225lb, 25lb trolling motor, 40lb outboard and 50lb group 27 battery out back it was just too much, I'm not sure the 3.5 Mercury will plane the small boat but with all this weight in the back, it surely would never have a chance, so the battery and troller will go to the front. I used two pieces of aluminium angle under the motor for additional support, positioned it as close to the side as possible and used x3 5/16 bolts to hold it in place. [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_5818.JPG"]33898._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_5819.JPG"]33899._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_5822.JPG"]33900._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_5820_net.JPG"]33905._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_5823.JPG"]33902._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_5824_net.JPG"]33903._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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