How did you mount your rod holder to your motor cowling? I like the idea and want to put a rod holder on my main to get better separation for the offerings.

My sled has a yamaha jet that I wouldn't mind drilling into for mounting the holder.

Do you use a backer plate or just washers under the cowling?

Thanks much,

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Just big a$$ washers

Thanks doc!

I'll get some big washers from the hardware store tomorrow.

Best,

Wow. There is some interesting stuff happening on (and around) that transom.

Just one more thing to note. Both motors I have done this to already had cowlings with some sort of extra reinforcement. Proceed with caution if your old Yamaha cowling is strictly one ply

The first time I did this was on my old Merc 200 hp 4-stroke that had a cowling with a thick 2-3 inch midline ridge beefed up for structural rigidity. I drilled thru that ridge to mount the rodholder.

The second time was on my current 225 E-Tec which has a double-walled cowling to reinforce the top. I also re-contoured the bottom of the FOLBE pedestal mount to match the slight curvature of the cowling to eliminate any focal pressure points.

Good timing, I was going to drill it out now, but thought I'd look again here.

The Yamaha is just the one ply top. I was a bit worried about the attachment. The rear of the motor has a cast aluminum "handle" on top that would probably provide better support, but I don't know if it's too far back to access easily. I'll look into that or some aluminum backer plate under the one ply.

Later,