Old Bill
Well-known member
Hi Guys,
I wanted to install a fish finder on my old 1957 14’ V-bottom aluminum boat, but I didn’t want to drill any holes in the hull because the hull is in excellence shape.
So what I did was make a mounting bracket out of ¾" plywood and mount it on the boat using one of the two oarlocks.
I then mounted the fish finder display head onto the mounting bracket.
After quite a bit of pondering about how to mount the fish finder’s transducer, I decided to use two of the bolts on the transom’s rear plywood to hold a bracket made of ¾" plywood.
Not wanting to cut a hole in the transom for the fish finder’s transducer’s cord, I installed the transducer on the plywood bracket and ran the cord over the top of the transom. Not too pretty, but it works!
In the above photo you can see the ¾" spacer that I epoxied onto the lower backside of the transducer’s mounting bracket.
Simple installation without any new holes!
Bill
I wanted to install a fish finder on my old 1957 14’ V-bottom aluminum boat, but I didn’t want to drill any holes in the hull because the hull is in excellence shape.
So what I did was make a mounting bracket out of ¾" plywood and mount it on the boat using one of the two oarlocks.
I then mounted the fish finder display head onto the mounting bracket.
After quite a bit of pondering about how to mount the fish finder’s transducer, I decided to use two of the bolts on the transom’s rear plywood to hold a bracket made of ¾" plywood.
Not wanting to cut a hole in the transom for the fish finder’s transducer’s cord, I installed the transducer on the plywood bracket and ran the cord over the top of the transom. Not too pretty, but it works!
In the above photo you can see the ¾" spacer that I epoxied onto the lower backside of the transducer’s mounting bracket.
Simple installation without any new holes!
Bill