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<blockquote data-quote="Ipaddle" data-source="post: 439941" data-attributes="member: 17851"><p>I have a friend with an old Jon boat. It had a wooden floor screwed to the ribs. Some of the ribs cracked where the screws were that held the flooring in place. Not sure why. The Tracker ribs are not very tall, as compared to say an Alumacraft, so you must be careful not to drill thru the hull. There are depth stops, think of a collar with a set screw that can be put on the drill bit to control depth. I think that rather than drilling the ribs, put a piece of aluminum angle on each end of the plywood with the vertical side of the angle facing up. Then screw this into the seats vertical surface at the bottom. This is doable, since the tracker seats go all the way to the hull bottom, are riveted to the floor and form another rib of sorts. This way, no new holes in ribs or hull.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ipaddle, post: 439941, member: 17851"] I have a friend with an old Jon boat. It had a wooden floor screwed to the ribs. Some of the ribs cracked where the screws were that held the flooring in place. Not sure why. The Tracker ribs are not very tall, as compared to say an Alumacraft, so you must be careful not to drill thru the hull. There are depth stops, think of a collar with a set screw that can be put on the drill bit to control depth. I think that rather than drilling the ribs, put a piece of aluminum angle on each end of the plywood with the vertical side of the angle facing up. Then screw this into the seats vertical surface at the bottom. This is doable, since the tracker seats go all the way to the hull bottom, are riveted to the floor and form another rib of sorts. This way, no new holes in ribs or hull. [/QUOTE]
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