SPLASH WELL MODIFICATION

416rigby · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject:

I'm not that concerned about taking water, just improving the wasted space of the well and making something useful with it.

Yellowstone · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject:

Bill & Brenda - Harvey's wedge on Sleepy C is pure function. I did one for my first Far West II twelve years ago. Virtually identical. Had a few of my fellow boaters caution me about "what if" you swamped the boat, etc. Mine sat there mainly by gravity. With that much water it would probably float away. Go for it. John

T.R. Bauer · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject:

hardee · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject: waterboarding

Yellowstone said:

Sea Wolf · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:55 pm Post subject:

I like the cooler rack/platform concept for the following reasons:

If you design a cooler rack/table so that it fits down against the top of the front of the engine well, it blocks any incoming "poop" water.

The cooler can be removed, and the table also used for cooking, fish cleaning, and/or whatever else you design it for.

The platform/cooler rack/table can be designed to set half way into the cockpit and halfway back into the engine well, so that the motor can still be tilted up.

This still allows getting the cooler up off the floor, which is a major floor space improver and convenience item. Your 2/3'rds of a cockpit (with the cooler on the floor) becomes a full cockpit again. You have to experience the change in foot room to fully understand this. Especially fishing and fighting fish.

When the cooler is placed on the floor, it can be used to sit on with or w/o a pad, and can be moved over to make a "step" to help get into and out of the boat.

With the cooler on the floor as a step, steping first on it and then secondly on the platform provides a stepway to the swim platform.

With the cooler on the platform and the top of the cooler padded with carpet, it becomes a handy space to set fishing items on. Designing an easily removable tray can organize this space. Many coolers have a small door on one end so that the tray can be left on the cooler top and the small door opened to get to drinks, etc.

You can put the cooler on the floor, use it as a step, stand on the platform, and cast lures or cast fly fishing equipment.

All these are very real advantages I've experience with the cooler platform set-up, and I recommend it highly!

Joe. Teeth

starcrafttom · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:56 am Post subject:

Well I have not had a chance to take pictures of my fish hold. So I thought I would give alike to the guy i got the idea from. Coop's boat is a set up a little different then mine. His fish box is removable where mine is not. I dont know if his would take being stepped on the way mine can. Susan and I have both been on it just fine. Thats 400lbs( mostly me). Any way its a great Idea and he deserves the credit for coming up with it. fish well

Bill and Brenda Russell · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:27 am Post subject:

Thanks again.

I have just returned 2/6/2009 from a short cruise on the ICW west of Morgan City LA and the Avery Island area. While anchored there was a small amount of water that splashed into the cockpit from high wind and a tow's wake.

This modification is still on my mind but has diminished after reading all the post that this in not a dangerous threat.

If you are in south Arkansas along highway 82 west you should call me.

Bill and Brenda Russell 870-533-2663