[Ambrose]

Here are a couple of pics my Swing and my old Ozzie.
The swing is fitted with 2 rear flush mount rod holders plus 1 on the left side. The sounder is an Eagle Cuda 128 that is powered by a 12v cordless drill battery. The crate had to be cut down a little so it fits into the Swings rear tankwell.
The Ozzie had a similar setup except the sounder was mounted onto a removable board. It also had a Berkley rod holder near my left foot.

 

[RedPhoenix]

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Red.

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[Ambrose]

No problem Red, the rod holder on the Ozzie is removable.

 

[hoit]

Hi Ambrose, I like your taste in kayaks :wink:

Regards
Grant

 

[onemorecast]

Cordless Drill Battery? Never thought of that, very clever.

Do you simply wire it up as neg to Neg and Positive to Positive? How long does the charge last?

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

Red.

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[Ambrose]

Cordless Drill Battery? Never thought of that, very clever.

Do you simply wire it up as neg to Neg and Positive to Positive? How long does the charge last?

Eric
Yeah it's as simple as that to wire it up.
The battery charge is surprisingly good, when I was testing it ran for 6hrs in demo mode and then I turned it off.

Ripper. What was the brand? I might think about something very similar for the espri, I reckon.

Red
The rod holder is made by Berkley and I think it's called a 'Quick Set'
The only problem is where it is mounted on the side of the Ozzie (is that called the gunwhale?) is not a flat surface so I had to make the rod holder mount curved aslo. I guess the Espri is the same.I used a grinder to get the curve and then made a gasket out of a cork material to make sure it was waterproof.