Tinnie Build

[keen_as]

Hi all, I've been slowly making mods to the little sea sprite that I purchased a couple of months ago.
It's now a much more fishing friendly rig.
New bow mount plate, fully welded front and rear deck frames, weld filled old transducer holes and added a transducer mounting plate, and added a battery tray.
Also added a bow mount electric.
I took it out for test run yesterday, sooooo much better to fish from now. Just have to play around with weight distribution but seems pretty good so far.

 

 

[The Mad Hughesy]

certainly looks like a brilliant rig mate. must get a lot of satisfaction knowing you completed all the mods yourself.

how many beers did it take to put together 

[rayke1938]

Nice well thought out rig.

 Be interested how the haswing goes heve heard positive reports on them with very few problems. Heard they are bringing out a i pilot system soon which will make the other brands sit up and take notice.

 Cheers

Ray

[kmcrosby78]

Great work there Bill. End product looks great and sure will be a dream to fish from. I've been meaning to make a front casting deck like that in my tinny (cut and prepped most of the things needed for about 4 years ago in a rush but didn't finish it before a Monduran trip ......).  You have the main flap that lifts up - how have you secured the small sections on either side of it - screwed, Velcro, ...? 

[keen_as]

On 11 February 2016 at 8:45 PM, kmcrosby78 said:

Great work there Bill. End product looks great and sure will be a dream to fish from. I've been meaning to make a front casting deck like that in my tinny (cut and prepped most of the things needed for about 4 years ago in a rush but didn't finish it before a Monduran trip ......).  You have the main flap that lifts up - how have you secured the small sections on either side of it - screwed, Velcro, ...? 

I just screwed down the side sections to keep them in place.
I ended up using some 17mm form ply and sealed all the cut surfaces with marine varnish.

[keen_as]

On 11 February 2016 at 1:14 PM, rayke1938 said:

Nice well thought out rig.

 Be interested how the haswing goes heve heard positive reports on them with very few problems. Heard they are bringing out a i pilot system soon which will make the other brands sit up and take notice.

 Cheers

Ray

Cheers Ray, 
I looked at getting the Kota like most people would, but for the price of this one I thought I may as well give it a try.
No complaints so far, it's quiet, pull's the hull along at around 5k sow according to gps with 2 people and gear, hopefully they'll make a retro fit system for the GPS model that would be nice.