New casting deck a go-er!!!

[Travis]

Thank to the help from rob (noname) the deck finally went in and all the electrics and sounder got finished, id recomend it for anyone who has a tinny without floors, it creates so much more room to fish [img size=980]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1000006.JPG

[fishinking]

nice deck mate, ill be putting in a full casting deck in my tinny soon and a live bait tank which will be great.

[Travis]

[img size=980]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1000009.JPG

[Travis]

[img size=980]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1000013.JPG

[fishinking]

do u rekon it would be possible to do a rear casting deck aswell in a tinny like that? as covering the fuel tank would be hard and thats what i wanna try and do aswell as the front casting deck

[Feral]

Very neat work, well done!

[Travis]

we were going to do the back seat as well but sorta ran out of glue and time lol, sounder swivels too for when the casting deck is being used

[shortie]

Not quite how i would do it.

I would of folded the carpet under the ply so no ply edges were exposed.

Battery and fuel tank very close together.

I know you have put both forward for weight distribution but if it was me i would be moving the battery away from the tank.

[Davo_Dinkum]

nice neat job .looks good

[Brian D]

Looks like a fishing craft with the front deck. Make sure you drop in a centre floor or at least carpet to dampen the clangs of sinkers and lures on the tinny.

[Cowfish13]

Looking good Trwarren, wish we'd done that with our old tinny

[MoparKevUk]

Is the front petrol tank plumbed in? And what size cable for the battery to motor to take up the voltage drop? Do the petrol pipes and cables run in the same conduit? :dry: :woohoo:

[mick fillet]

Nice job you have done there.But like shortie said keep your battery box away from the fuel tank. Its a confined space with fuel vapour in it. if the battery terminals were to come loose and make a dry conection and spark it could be a disaster. :ohmy:

[noname]

MoparKevUk wrote:

Is the front petrol tank plumbed in? And what size cable for the battery to motor to take up the voltage drop? Do the petrol pipes and cables run in the same conduit? :dry: :woohoo:

oi kevvy! tank is a goer, 7.5 amp cabling to the switch panel, no charging reg on the donk. the fuel line runs along side the wiring, wiring is insulated, all fused. and not my boat

[MoparKevUk]

:blush: :blush: Forgot to mention........Nice bit of work fellas!!! Can't wait to see it in the flesh

[noname]

plan was to have the battery up front, fuel in the middle, with some odds n ends, but didn't work out that way. battery had to go there or down the back, although confined, it is ventelated, travis is forever fartin! i would be more concerned bout that:laugh:

[dhess]

Like others already mentioned the battery next to the fuel tank is potentially a recipe of disaster.

Fairly recently a friend of mine was planing on going fishing the following morning. When his alarm clock went off at sparrow farts, out of habit he just snoozed it a few times. Not too long after he woke up to a raging inferno. There was some unexplained short near the battery (no dodgy wiring or anyything) and the front of the boat was incinerated to the point of burning holes through the aluminium hull. Luckily the fuel tank was located right down the stern otherwise 20L of fuel and the whole house would have gone up in the middle of the night. Boat was inside the garage.

[natang]

Mate that is a very nice deck! I hope to do that to mine when I get back from the UK!

[maxi]

nice deck but you got a potential bomb there mate....

[Travis]

ok its only a peice of ply over the top, vapours lay low and there is still the big gaps under the seats front and back, theres nothing to arc out as the woring is kept simple, one cable in pretty much, i will be more worried about smoking in the boat, the tank dosnt have to be venting all the time either, not a big engine i just have to crack the vent once an hour or so if im trolling, it uses bugger all fuel. ill let you know if she blows anyway :laugh:

[shortie]

trwarren83 wrote:

ok its only a peice of ply over the top, vapours lay low and there is still the big gaps under the seats front and back, theres nothing to arc out as the woring is kept simple, one cable in pretty much, i will be more worried about smoking in the boat, the tank dosnt have to be venting all the time either, not a big engine i just have to crack the vent once an hour or so if im trolling, it uses bugger all fuel. ill let you know if she blows anyway :laugh:

Dont worry about letting us know. We will see in on the news.

[kriso]

i have to agree with trav on this, the battery is a box not open and hydrocarbon vapours fall not rise also with the gap in the seat at the bottom it will actualy draw vapours out from under there, like a reverse cowl hood on a car.

[Travis]

thats it, anyone who has a boat has to be wary in still condition of vapours in the bottom of their boats

[Travis]

gap at front [img size=980]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1000044.JPG

[Travis]

gap at back, so i dont see a problem unsless someone is in there arcing out the battery [img size=980]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1000045.JPG

[kriso]

yep i reckon you would have to be pretty unlucky for that to go up mate. my old rig had the battery and tank side by side with no battery box lol! never even crossed me mind. theres plenty of ventilation there.

[ellicat]

wesfish wrote

nice!!!!, now you just need the lower floor done, which i have some simple but effective way of doing, you will need some alloy angle , rivets , and 10mm marine ply , oh and carpet lol bit hard to describe in text but maybe one day i can show you mine... when i asked the boat shop for a full middle floor they quoted 800 bucks and i done mine for under 100...i just have my rear deck to go which i might do in a couple of weeks....

Wesfish post that got lost last night.

[Travis]

not going to worry about the lower floor, theres already a floor there so why build another on top, casting deck needed to go in because its a smaller tinny and that crap took up too much room, now i can go up the front to throw the anchor without falling in the piss over tanks and buckets :laugh:

[noname]

:laugh: ahh trav, your a bloody poet!