I have been doing lots of mods and custom ad-ons on my TI.
One of the things that I think work grate are the handrails I mounted at the rear aka cross bar. (se the quote below)
The handrail helps a lot when getting up from the back seat by pulling the body weight forward.
Getting up from the front seat is also easier by leaning on the handrail.
Hope this idea might help.
You can find other strange ideas in the build blog....
Ok time to continue the project.
Next up are the rails and handlebars in the middle.
I am planning to mount the aluminiumrails under the "middle" aka crossbar. Removing the crossbar and drill thru the aluminium railplate and fasten the aka crossbar again ontop with longer bolts. This will raise the crossbar by 16mm. I am a bit worried about the lenght of the longer bolts and how they will be able to handle the forces from the akas.
I guess I will notice if the bolts brake!!
On the starboard side at the front end of the rail it is almost impossible to fasten it with bolts thru the plastic hull. Sadly the dagger board slot takes up all the room under the gunwale. I will try to utilise the two brass nuts that are molded into the hull that otherwise hold the rear end of the dagger board cowl. Also I will use a fair amount of Sikaflex to glue down the rails properly.
I cut up the main pieces and ruffly "mocked up" the layout to get a feel of how it will turn out.
I think this will work.
Looks pretty nice. The stainless handle bars will be good to grab when getting up from the seat. They will also serve for mounting some of the electronics. Ontop of the bars I will try to place a removable fishing/fighting chair. The rails will hold mounts to some of the fish finder transducers that can be folded down into the water on the sides.
Tomorrow I will work out how to get all this hardware securely mounted.
When this is finished I can finaly start to install some of the electronics. I sure have been missing my fishfinder.
So much to do... so little time...