I've searched for a while and haven't seen any pictures or topics on this. I see on Gator tail boats they have a piece of channel running longitudinal on top of the hunt deck I think. I don't see that on other builds, is it just below the hunt deck? I'm trying to figure out where to put my bracing in my hunt deck. I know this hunt deck is going to take a lot of abuse so I want to do it right the first time. Any pictures or advice would be appreciated.

I put a piece of 1" deep channel as wide as the motor mount. Seems to work fine.




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That's what I was wondering, so I'm going to brace up the transom with 6" channel close to how I would do a normal transom and other than that piece of channel in your pic is there any other bracing or just plate with some gunnel material on the top edge?

Thanks bud

Over-engineer the support in that area, its the pivot point for the boat and will have a lot of torque on it- especially with a modded motor.

Thanks, I might just use the 6" channel I have for the transom to run from the motor mount to the front of the hunt deck or I might just break out a channel 1" deep for a lower profile and to safe weight. I think I'm going to run some tubing across the front of the hunt deck also.

Thanks