Recent content by cracker39

Bracing against the underside of the seats would work - but it would have to be a flexible connection to permit compression (i.e. - movement) between the seats and the boat bottom.

Yep - it would be a tad easier if the seats went all the way down.

Simple old fishing boats seem to hold the most memories - not the $100,000 fishing machines!

A search didn't reveal anything on this topic so I thought that I would just dive in. In my youth - going way back into the '50s - our wooden bay boats, on the Gulf coast of Florida, had slatted wooden floors. Now, a "bay boat" referred to a 14' to 18' flat bottom skiff, powered quite...