hey, I have a 14 foot aluminum fishing boat that flexes pretty bad on the floor. The boat has 4 seats and the original bracing is on bottoms of the first 3 seats from the back. They are 4 inches long "L" brackets at the centre bottoms of each seat and is riveted to to the seat and floor of the boat. The boat was made in the 70s and do to the age all the bracket are snapped. I put short 2x4s in place of where the brackets were it stopped it a bit but still flexes pretty bad. The reason I think it flexes so bad is because it has no cross braces on the floor. Any ideas on any fixes? I was thinking about removing the second seat from the rear and figuring out a way to mount a piece of plywood to the floor to secure it from flexing. Then using another piece of plywood on top of the 3 and 4 fourth seats at front to make a platform. I will send picture more toward the spring I am just trying to get ideas.
I found this picture online of the boats looks like he has posts mounted to the seats going down to the floor.
Thank you,
brad
I found this picture online of the boats looks like he has posts mounted to the seats going down to the floor.
Thank you,
brad