Post a picture of the boat

 

Where’s old Watersnake when we need him??? How big is the tri hull , length and how wide is it as well as how deep are the sides, nice to know what your working with... lay off the cheese burgers and start eating salads is another idea....

 

buy a different boat

 

He said wasn’t an option due to college

 

Don't mind all the stuff in the boat, havnt been home to get it ready yet. But it's a 15ft

 

PVC tubes on the sides would be my choice. Or just keep using it the way it is

 

bowmandan do you have any good idea how to mount them?

 

This is going to sound ridiculous but my buddy over here in minnesota has a little 12 or 14 ft fishing boat and he made floats out of 55 gallon drums attached to a 2x4 frame with a sheet of plywood over it. He uses that.... If that draws you a picture.

 

You might be able to have a upholstery shop or someone with a HD sewing machine take some seat belt webbing and sew some loops in it that you could strap some PVC tubes to the side. You could use ratchet straps with some hooks on the ends to fasten them to the hull so it was easy on/easy off. Put your batteries midship. You don't say what size lights your using. You could use some housings mounted to the rails and ditch the deck or go to a smaller deck to save weight. Maybe one person fish the front and one off the back? What size lights are you using? Use the smallest genny you can get away with. You don't say what you're using for propulsion. I see a troller. You could use one like pontoons use that have a small holder for mounting it to the deck and lose the one you have with the big mount? Just some ideas.

 

Not sure if u can do.it with this boat or not, but is there any foam in the hull you can take out? Mine I took out was all wet and soaked from years of abuse. I took all the foam out and it made a difference . That stuff gets heavy

 

yeah ill just have to play around with it and see what i can do and where i can save some weight. thanks for the imput

 

Make some strapping out of thin aluminum and bolt it to the sides maybe... I would have to see better pics of the inside of the boat

 

I fished a 14x60 Ormond sport trihull for years with 8 150hps and a 3500 genny and 18hp outboard with no trouble killed a ton of fish out that boat it had a flush deck too but only two guys on boat at night shooting three guys was to much if got on fish

 

My first boat was a trihull this is what I did first I ripped up the floor and replace all the old wet insulation with new dry replaced the floor with aluminum, than I cut out anything I didn't need in the boat . when I was done I took out 300lbs of wet insulation and useless fiberglass parts.

 

interesting thread, I also have the same question