Unless your lucky enough to own a fully decked out Pro Angler you will understand the frustration of having your tackle boxes shuffle around under the centre hatch.
The centre hatch gives storage from near the seat position to just in front of the mirage drive system and the trick is to utilise this storage space effectively without having to dive your hand in like a lucky dip at the carnival.
I had previously used a cut down plastic bucket from bunnings and this worked but it restricted my storage capacity to a round area slightly larger than the hatch opening.
There are several different DIY style methods on forums, including a clothes basket and I am told this also works quite well.
Browsing through the many forums about centre hatch ideas, I stumbled across a method of using plastic trellis to create a tray that I thought would work well and I must say that this is the best storage DIY I have seen thus far.
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| cut trellis to 1200mm |
Materials needed for this project include :
Cable Ties
Stanley Knife
two trays).
Step 2. Cut 160mm down all four sides of the trellis to create the
side folds.
Step 3. Fold the four sides up and secure with cable ties.
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| sides cut to 160mm |
Ensure the rope pulley for steering and the rudder are clear of the tray before finalising position.
This install claims back all of the valuable storage space under your seat area and having everything packed neatly on the tray means more time fishing and less time searching for missing tackle.
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| finished tray |
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| some of the tackle now stored in hatch |
installed neatly in hatch
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If you add a.layer of shadecloth on top of the trellis then you won't lose small items. I used this successfuly on my old Viking esprii
ReplyDeleteYou must have read my mind yakfisher!!!!! Thanks mate, I will definately getting onto that. I already lost a jighead in there!
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