abbyfireguy
Well-Known Member
I am trying to brainstorm a kicker steering connection for my boat.
I have a welded aluminum inboard Jetboat. The jet drive is an American Turbine SD309 with the usual swim grid above and two bars protecting the pump.
I have a Yammie 9.9 high thrust and have been thinking about fabbing up a connecting bar between the two for the ugly days at Bamfield when a seat in the cabin would be nice to steer from there.
Thought about an electric control,too expensive for the 5 trips a year..
Have had some good ideas about using a flexible push pull cable of some sorts with the necessary brackets fabbed out of stainless. I have enough tools to do all the cutting welding and fabbing, just need to find a good type of flex cable that would do the trick.
The connection at the motor end would have a quick connect section so you could remove when not needed.
Any ideas or pics would be appreciated.. Gotta be a simple way to do this with materials available I hope.
And no I don't need another "ocean" boat.. Gotta make the Jetboat do double duty...
It's worked well out to 7 Mile for years so far..
I have a welded aluminum inboard Jetboat. The jet drive is an American Turbine SD309 with the usual swim grid above and two bars protecting the pump.
I have a Yammie 9.9 high thrust and have been thinking about fabbing up a connecting bar between the two for the ugly days at Bamfield when a seat in the cabin would be nice to steer from there.
Thought about an electric control,too expensive for the 5 trips a year..
Have had some good ideas about using a flexible push pull cable of some sorts with the necessary brackets fabbed out of stainless. I have enough tools to do all the cutting welding and fabbing, just need to find a good type of flex cable that would do the trick.
The connection at the motor end would have a quick connect section so you could remove when not needed.
Any ideas or pics would be appreciated.. Gotta be a simple way to do this with materials available I hope.
And no I don't need another "ocean" boat.. Gotta make the Jetboat do double duty...
It's worked well out to 7 Mile for years so far..