Maybe you could use a ladder like this? Not sure if you have room for it, but it'd sure make it easier to get back in the boat. I've thought about one when I'm out with the kids, so they could get back in the boat easily

 

If you go over and by yourself most likely your gonna be in trouble, most the time for us if we are standing on the deck "hunting" we are in water shallow enough you can stand up on bottom and if someone is in the boat can pull you up.

Never fell over but have jumped over to walk and push thru shallow spots shooting rays, so shallow with our weight in boat would hit bottom, almost spent 6 hrs high and dry till next high tide but never had issue getting back in once got deeper to run big motor

 

Use the lower unit of the outboard for the ladder.

 

I had a girl on my boat that did that one day, She cut he foot dang near off with the prop ,Yes she was a blonde.

 

Just put one of those small swim platforms with a ladder on it on the opposite side from your other motor. They make them where the ladder slides in under the platform so is out of the way.

 

I put a SS swim ladder on when I got the boat for skiing/tubing, but have used it countless times other than that. It folds up pretty close to the transom.

 

Thanks for the replies guys.

My boat is a 1650 Alweld. Maybe pods would be the way to go? I'd thought about a ladder that slides out from under the deck but I'd have to lose one of my lights and that still wouldn't address the problem with the deck removed. Chances are that I'm just over thinking this but something in the back of my mind keeps going, what if? I'd also thought of a generator rack that just clears the main outboard but would incorporate some ladder rungs on the down legs. That might be another possibility. Or, I could look into putting a fold up ladder like a pontoon uses on the opposite side of the main motor. That would be pretty busy looking on the transom, a kicker on the port side, a main motor and then the ladder. I thought maybe some of you might have some ideas you could toss out there.

 

Pods all the way, maybe not the best option, but you will have a way to get in the boat and better performance out of the boat.

 

Phillips_211, I'm thinking that just may be the most feasible answer even if it necessitates moving the kicker to the pod.

 

my pipes make a perfect mounting platform extend back behind everything about 30 inches !!

 

My boat sets pretty level in the water with a couple of guys on the deck now. If I add the pods I think it would push the transom up and cause the nose to dive down. Not the scenario I want. However, do any of you guys use your pods for ballast also? By that I mean do you allow water into them to counteract the nose dive when required?

 

no. just figure what kind of lift your pods will give you then move that weight from the front to the back. most pods will offset 150-200lbs. im here to tell you though if your planning on removing a kicker to build pods with hopes to put the kicker back on one of them you are in for a lot of work with very little reward. better off looking at folding ladders or having something built on the transom across from the kicker. like Flounder said.

this is a $150 option but if it does what you want and fits in the location you want it to then it doesn't matter what it cost.
http://www.marinedepotdirect.com/fr...ee0BRD1l7vV6JHe0zISJADxYItmSa2VwC8ejO4L2udsbA-b-WIVdO_H2N3bEHSVevr5_RoCcYXw_wcB

a sheet of .125 is gonna cost you way more than that and its gonna take a while to build pods if you have the capabilities. if you don't then the cost to have someone else do it will be ridiculous.

 

I think what I'm going to do is mount it to my raised deck so when I'm fishing or bow fishing alone I can just slip it into a couple of receivers and have it hang down from the side where I can get at it if need be and be removable for storage and docking. No sense in having it out and in the way if I have some one else along.

Thanks dudes!

 

Roll a rope ladder up