Mounting Downriggers

Jeff_e_d · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:28 am Post subject: Mounting Downriggers

I have not bought a C-Dory but am looking at the 22 Cruiser. I would like to mount 4 downriggers, 2 going straight out the back. However, the stern cleats are on the logical mounting spot. I'm sure members of this board have a solution and I would appreciate ideas.

oldgrowth · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:10 pm Post subject:

Jeff_e_d - that subject just came up a few days ago. here is the link to it. Four downriggers on a 22' ?

Sea Wolf · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

Jeff_e_d-

No problemo!

Just build a stainless bracket out of heavy sheet metal that rides above the cleats and has a small cut-out to the sides to allow insertion of the dock lines to the cleats.

Get some tagboard or cardboard to make templates out of as you do the design work, and then find a local sheet metal shop that can bend the heavy gauge SS.

P.S.: Someone has such a critter on the stern of their Tomcat, but I can't remember exactly who..........(BobCat)?

Joe.

Sea Wolf · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject:

Cabela's has a stantion mount to elevate downriggers that would work in this situation, and it's on sale for $49.95:

Link HERE.

Might not be as pretty as a custom make one, but much simpler, and probably cheaper too!

Joe.

Jeff_e_d · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject:

Would you put it next to the cleat?

Sea Wolf · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

Jeff_e_d

Can't give you a definite answer w/o the doiwnrigger you're going to use and actually working with them.

I'd get the base, set it on the available area, then with the downrigger I was going to use, move them around to figure out the most efficient location for operating the downrigger, keeping in mind to allow for operation of the cleat with the dock lines, and keeping the two from interferring with each other.

Too complicated for a point-blank answer w/o the exact spatial relationships involved.

Joe.

Jeff_e_d · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:58 pm Post subject:

Thanks Sea Wolf. I will be trying to mount my manual pens on the back of a CD 22 cruiser.

Sea Wolf · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject:

Jeff_e_d

You're welcome.

Those manual Pens are what I've got for trout fishing on Lake Shasta.

They're clean, simple, and a very good downrigger.

Starcraftom thinks they're the best manuals on the market!

Good Luck with your new boat...soon!

Joe.

dogon dory · Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:09 am Post subject:

Sorry, Folks - Post Deleted By Author

Wefings · Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:40 am Post subject:

Dan, Perhaps he is a midwesterner [ a great lakes guy] that is downsizing ?

Jeff_e_d · Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject:

Gee Dan, I thought this was a pleasant site.....

dogon dory · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:29 am Post subject:

Sorry, Folks - Post Deleted By Author

gljjr · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject:

Offshore makes a swivel mount that looks a lot like the stansion mount that in on the link to Cabelas. You can get them at both Outdoor Emporium and Three Rivers Marine in Woodinville. I would imagine that you could put one of them just forward of the cleat and then the second one just far enough forward from that so that you can work both riggers. I would also imagine that you will need to have a very long boom on the ones facing the rear!