Boat swivels and seats?

Need some ideas and pictures if available for what kind and how to mount swivels on 12 ft tracker Jon boat. Do you use metal screws to secure since you can’t get under the seat to use bolts and nuts? Thanks

I used big rivets, got a big cheap rivet gun from Harbor Freight.

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Look at rivnuts online. Easy to install, cheap and very strong.

I bolted mine down to a sheet of plywood with t nuts..then screwed the plywood down...

Thanks for all the good ideas.

I don’t understand what you mean by swivels?


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Attachment 350986Thanks for all the advice. I ended up using riv nuts. Seemed to work good.

Moving this thread to the boat rigging forum...should get more answers and suggestions there.

You might want to look at the spider leg style to see if they would work to straddle your bench seats. They give you some flexibility to move them around to where you need them, or take them out as needed. The side-by-side seat base has been great for me and my kids. Wise and Tempress are two companies I know for sure that make them, I'm sure there are others too. You can put the swivel base on them like you posted above, but I put the pin style base in them for greater flexibility so I can swap seats from the single style to my double.

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Atwood bench seat bracket SP 15600 this what I have on my 1236 topper

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I used one of these on my last boat. Easy to install and allows you to take the seat off easily, should you need to.

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