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voyager fish house


Sniper1

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I'm am looking for some one that has diagrams, pictures or can tell me how to enclose my voyager fish house. What I want to do is make storage areas below the seats so the bottom is compartments. I would like to have my auger sit behind the seat on top of the plywood, so I can use the space below for rods and other things.

I know some one posted something like this last year but I didn't pay attention to it and I went to find it last night and I couldn't.

I appreciate any and all the help you guys can give me,

thank you

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I just finished mine last Thursday. I only used 2 seats, with flip up compartments under each. In the back of the sled, I made 2 circular cutouts for a bucket and 20# propane cylinder. Between the 2 is flip up rod storage and heater storage. I am also going to be adding a flush table on vertical sliders between the 2 seats. Under the table will be 2 rod holders and 4 30 bulb 1157 LEDs. I am doing 2 red and 2 white, with 1 of each color pointing front and back. All the wiring will be contained to under the table with a vexilar battery running everything. Thinking about covering the whole deal with indoor/outdoor carpet that I picked up, but not sure yet if I want to deal with hooks getting stuck. It is still a bit of a work in progress as I needed to use it this last weekend. I will be finishing it up tonight.

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I should add that I used 5/8" plywood that sits on top of the sled. It needed some careful trimming so that it wouldn't hit the canvas, but I think mounting it to the top cut down on a lot of weight that would have been added by using a 2x2 frame. The only supports I used were 4 10" vertical 2x4s in the middle. Once I do the cutout for the table, I will likely have to add a short length of 2x2 on each side for it to sit on when it is not in use.

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They are stationary. Being able to slide the seats front to back was nice, however, the metal bars would take up about 4" of space (deep), and 15" wide so I decided to just ditch them. I guess my thought was that it is easy enough to slide the sled back an inch or two if I need to. What I would do differently, and I still may, is build the seat up about 2" higher that level with the top of the sled. I'm just shy of 6' and would like a little bit more height.

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Big daddy 18, the seats slide sideways along the rail and forward and backwards also, I got the house two years ago so it has the padded seats as well. What I was thinking, is on the backside, make a cut out for my minnow pale if I have enough room because I want to put my rod box underneath and extra 1lb propane tanks and the auger on top of that.

In the front by the seats I want two cut outs for bucket, minnow and vexlar and a spot to put extra battery's for my lights and backpack with my lunch.

I was thinking of using 3/8 in board for the top, using the slide latches to keep the top attached to the sled and cover everything with indoor/outdoor carpeting.

What do you guys think, am I adding too much weight to it???

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