Having difficulty mounting things to your boat?

[SuperD]

Check out this product. Mount downriggers, bbq's, coolers, lights...., just about anything. Easy on, easy off. I've ordered one to mount my bazillion candle search light to the bow of my boat for night or per dawn navigation. I know somebody who has mounted Scotty downriggers on the bent insert model.

http://www.v-lock.com/

 

[froggie]

Now that is Awesome, I bookmarked it to show Tortuga. We do have limited spots to mount stuff!!! I love it!!!
Froggie

 

[mwrowan]

Thanks SuperD, for bringing the V-Lock to Kokanee.com.

I would like to offer a special 15% discounf on any order for Kokanee.com members through the end of May.

Just enter Kokanee.com at checkout for the discount.

Thanks again and I welcome questions and feedback on this new product good, bad or indifferent.

Mike
V-Lock

Edited for bad URL

 

[twisted lines]

Looks like an answer for some of my problems! how tall are they so I can go start counting? tooexcited

 

[MMDON]

Mike is a great guy with a great product. Makes mounting and removing equipment from your boat very easy!

MM/Don

 

[dubob]

I welcome questions and feedback on this new product good, bad or indifferent.

Okay Mike, here’s a question. Can you provide a video of an actual downrigger in use on your product? Downriggers are heavy and would produce a lot of pressure on the lock, especially with a 10 or 12 pound weight suspended at depth. Ad a stacker and it would increase the stress somewhat.

I’m not trying to be negative towards your product, but I do have some reservations about it’s application for downriggers. I am very impressed with it's wide functional use.

 

[SuperD]

Bob, guys are running kicker motors off of them. They can handle the weight. Your only reservation should be the substrate you are bolting it too.

 

[BROWNBAGGER]

Is there a mating part that goes with this v-block? I'm not following the design. I take that you mount the block to your boat through the counter sunk holes, right? what slides into the slot, and I guess locks in with the pull pin?

 

[mwrowan]

Is there a mating part that goes with this v-block? I'm not following the design. I take that you mount the block to your boat through the counter sunk holes, right? what slides into the slot, and I guess locks in with the pull pin?

BB, there are 2 components to the V-Lock system, the base and the insert.
You attach the base to your boat (or to anything really) and you attach your application to the insert.

Insert come either straight or bent.

Mike
V-Lock

 

[mwrowan]

Okay Mike, here’s a question. Can you provide a video of an actual downrigger in use on your product? Downriggers are heavy and would produce a lot of pressure on the lock, especially with a 10 or 12 pound weight suspended at depth. Ad a stacker and it would increase the stress somewhat.

I’m not trying to be negative towards your product, but I do have some reservations about it’s application for downriggers. I am very impressed with it's wide functional use.

dubob, I do not have a way to make a video but will ask some of the people using them if they can.
Like SuperD said I think the limitation is how solid a surface you have to attach the base.

Mike
V-Lock

 

[SuperD]

A picture of the bent insert as might be used for a downrigger or something you want to mount on a narrow gunnel.

 

[BROWNBAGGER]

pretty slick.........wish I would of thought of that. I make every thing for my boat. I have even made a down rigger

 

[dubob]

I think the limitation is how solid a surface you have to attach the base.

Thanks Mike. I already have mounts for my Tracker Varga Deep-V16 gear, but may change to a pontoon boat in the future. I was thinking these might work well mounted to the side walls if some aluminum plates were welded to the uprights to attached your mounts too. This would allow more position choices over using the cross bars normally used across the back of a pontoon.

 

[gonefishing]

Thats Outstanding; Now Where Can I Buy The Adjustable Light In The Video. 1 Mil Candle Please, Anyone

 

[Full_Monte]

It looks like a good product. It can be only as good as the substrate it is mounted on....if you mount it on a wimpy piece of aluminum railing/siding, it will flex with a down rigger mounted to it. Flexing creates cracks in the metal.
Back up the siding with another plate to distribute the load.

 

[sawdustsavage]

Thanks SuperD, for bringing the V-Lock to Kokanee.com.

I would like to offer a special 15% discounf on any order for Kokanee.com members through the end of May.

Just enter Kokanee.com at checkout for the discount.

Thanks again and I welcome questions and feedback on this new product good, bad or indifferent.

Mike
V-Lock

101goodpost101
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After checking these out I came to the conclusion that they are the best thing invented for fishing since the oar. Endless possibilities. I just ordered my first two and I'm sure I will order more.
John

 

[sawdustsavage]

The bad URL was a couple of Ws by mistake.

 

[sawdustsavage]

sorry 1 too many

 

[SuperD]

Sawdust, did you see the pontoon version that attaches to the railing?

 

[twisted lines]

101goodpost101
After checking these out I came to the conclusion that they are the best thing invented for fishing since the oar. Endless possibilities. I just ordered my first two and I'm sure I will order more.
John[/QUOTE]

Very nice concept and I have my first three complete with the other side comming soon; So far rod, gps, TR-1 control and iced bait holders thumbsup