Mounting Downriggers

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Jeff_e_d

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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.
 
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.
 
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

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

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.
 
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!
 
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