Fitting rod holders

[Fishery Pokery]

Some fantastic ideas on here, love sailmakers rod holders and Kaman's aux bracket.

If the inner tube was too tricky you could use shrink tube to cover the aluminium as they use for fishing rod handles.

[Andy B]

I just screwed mine to the transom.

[Phil]

I took delivery of my new F-RIB 360 on Friday. Gave it its maiden voyage on Saturday and built Sailrepair's rod rest design on Sunday, before heading out fishing. The rod rest worked really well and we caught 4 species, including my supper which went on the BBQ last night . I'll try and put up a more detailed post and a few pics soon.

I ended up putting bolts on the Scotty rod rests vs self tapering screws. I thought the force required to re position the Scottys or take them off their mounting brackets would be a bit much for the latter. As Sailrepair advised, getting the bolts on was pretty fiddly. My old man came up with the technique of sticking the self tapering nuts on to a flat knife with blue tack to hold them in position when getting the bolts to take the thread. After that, we swapped over to a combination of needle nose pliers and a small spanner to tighten the nuts up. A bit of duct tape went on the cut ends of the tube as I didn't have an inner tube.

The only issue was that the groove at the top of my outboard transom clamp wasn't big enough to take the 2cm depth of aluminium square tube. So, when I tightened the clamp, it pushed the tube half way off the top of the transom (see first pic below). Most of the pressure seemed to be taken horizontally by the clamp fixings, with not much of the weight of the outboard on the top of the transom, although enough to hold the rod rest in place.

The above didn't seem to hamper the outboard's performance, but it would be interesting to know if this sort of setup looks operationally OK and if there's a workaround to get the tube sitting flush. I'm thinking just putting a couple of cm thick piece of wood on the outside of the transom would set the outboard back a bit and stop it from pushing the aluminium tube forward, but I would prefer not to have an extra component to fiddle with when lumping round the outboard if that's avoidable.

[Martin]

Aghhhhh.. the dreaded third party photo storage
As you can see below, images don't display properly on mobile viewing. To solve this, images are better loaded directly to the forum.

Screenshot of mobile view

And here's the image loaded directly to the forum

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[Phil]

Sorry, hadn't noticed the upload button. Much easier than using the 3rd party hosting! I've edited my original post so the images are directly on the forum.

[Martin]

Excellent Phil, cheers

[Andy B]

I'm a little concerned about this....

[Phil]

I'm a little concerned about this....

Are the clamps too high on the mounting bracket Andy?


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[Andy B]

It's not that they are high.
What concerns me is that they arn't flat on the gripped surface of the transom plate.
They are clamped partly on the lip around the transom plate which means there's a far greater risk of the engine coming off especially in tight turns when the forces will try and lift one side of the transom clamp upwards

[Phil]

Ah, OK. Good to know. Thanks Andy.

Whilst the aluminium tube did raise the outboard to what should have been its optimal height, I'm now wondering whether it would be better for me to cut a section out of the tube so that the outboard sits on a single 2mm flat piece of aluminium.


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