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Paul wrote:It's home made. I had a local hyrdaulics shop bend the tube for me (Ø1.25" 304 Stainless) to the dimensions that I requested, then had a waterjet shop cut a center plate for the radar mount and the flanges for the foot mounts. I did all the notching, fitting and welding myself.
Nice work!
Do you have any tilt on it? Do you feed your wires through the tubing into the top?
I had considered at one time making a plate welded to two cross bars that would somehow clamp to the top grab rails, but then I had to find another method to pass the wires through the top.
Paul wrote:It's home made. I had a local hyrdaulics shop bend the tube for me (Ø1.25" 304 Stainless) to the dimensions that I requested, then had a waterjet shop cut a center plate for the radar mount and the flanges for the foot mounts. I did all the notching, fitting and welding myself.
Nice work!
Do you have any tilt on it? Do you feed your wires through the tubing into the top?
All of the cables and wires go thru the hard top directly into the starboard forward tube and come out where required at the top of the arch thru rubber grommets. There's TV antenna coax cable, radar network cable, power wires for the horn, power wires for the mast head light and the cable for the GPS antenna. In short, that tube is pretty crowded.
There is a separate mounting bracket for the radar that I had fabbed up with some angle adjustment. It is tipped down slightly to the front so that it's level when the boat is on plane.
Paul
"Cruise Control" 1978 F-26HT
"No Control" 2012 9' Grand RIB
