Thread: Updating and Upgrading My Skeeter F-80 Strada

Well I chuckled inside when Bon Temps told me he had to tilt the sidescan transducer on his Ranger boat because it listed to stbd when he was in it. Well I have the same problem with the Skeeter but I have no room to correct it without other issues. After looking hard at the problem I came up with a Jackplate bracket for the transducer.



Using some 2x2x3/16in Aluminum angle I clamped the transducer bracket where I thought it should go.



I laid out where I wanted the screws to attach the mounting bracket. Drilled & Tapped the holes to 10-24 then cut to length on the miter saw.



Sizing up where to put the mounting hole for the Jackplate bracket I drill a miss. The bracket came in contact just enough to be necessary to drill another mounting hole. If this works as expected I will have to make another bracket because the extra hole will drive me nuts.



After the test assembly and finding I needed to drill another hole in the bracket I determined where, drilled the hole, and mounted everything up.



Time for another test run.