On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:28:59 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
rod and a joy to use from a canoe. The extra foot really makes a
difference when you're sitting or kneeling in a canoe and yes, it

C'mon you sissie, just stand up :-)

I'm working on doing just that with my 18' Grumman.

She'll have a 2hp Honda four stroke and a trolling motor
which can be mounted for either solo or two-person fishing,
a casting deck amidships, a removable seat behind the center
thwart for solo use and outrigger pontoons on both sides so
even a big, clumsy lummox like myself can stand on the casting
deck. And all this will be easily and quickly removable so as
to convert this lean, mean, musky-chasing machine back into my
grandpa's heirloom canoe with nary a hint, besides a few extra
holes in the gunwales, that she's been "modified".

I've already got the 2hp, the pontoons and the removable center
seat, all I need now is to set up the casting deck and get the
trolling motor and battery. Hell, I'm even thinking so long as
I have a battery in the boat I might get a fish finder too and
mount the transducer on the trolling motor.

If you make the deck out of something like Penskeboard (Whaleboard,
etc.) and 'glass it, with some runners on the bottom, also out of PB,
you'll have something easily removable, light-weight, _totally_
rot/moistureproof, and no extra holes needed.

If you don't know Penskeboard, etc., it's lightweight fiber board
(glass, not wood, fibers) used in boat building. It is _not_ the PVC
and similar material, ala Starboard. A 4' x 8' x 1/2" sheet is under
150USD and would make a sub-40lb.-ish platform. Technically, you don't
even have to 'glass it over, but I'd do so.



TC,
R