speaking of transoms
We wanted something a bit different from the usual. i really like the portofino style transoms seen on euro boats often and a bit of curve and flare is appriciated for sure.
As mentioned earlier we also liked this centre walk through idea instead of a port or stardboard door. this gives us two even compartments either side. Well one had to be the livewell for sure and the other we wanted use for tackle storage
The motif with this boat is that everything had to have a "home" we didnt want open pockets anywhere , places where things just get chucked. we wanted everything to be neat m, tidy. and lockable.
The live well
Its 70lt with a folding baffle/devider in the middle should it be needed. We opted not to paint the interior owing to it just being hard to get it to keep that colour and a prick to ever repaint. so instead we just planed for a raw acid washed nylac allumiun with blue LED lights. the lid does slope down a bit , this overall shape does reduce the amount of water we can have but "BEAUTY IS PAIN"
We did cleverly get the overflow and drain plumbed down and into the Scupper tubes. so we wouldnt have water flowing over the back of the boat onto the swim platform or over the side of the boat onto the paint work.
There is a stylish viewing window on the inside of the transom
The tackle storage locker
We work very closely with Plaztek in qld. they have done several boards for us in the past "after we decided that making them ourselves was just not economical" And we have enlisted them to come up with a tackle storage locker that suits our dimensions
we had about 500x 500x 700 to play with and liked the cupboard door idea . when open having a rack of slide out draws on one side and Plano tackle storage slides on the other. locked behind a single lock door.
This was more cost effective than our fabricator producing it in alloy and supports another australian manufacture.
under the transom on the left is a receptical for the salt water wash down hose. and on the right is a tilted storage locker to fit a folded up freezer bag "name a brand, they are all the same" the centre of the transom holds 110lt fresh water tank