Ballast upgrade question

[krt]

I removed the hard tanks and installed 1100lbs bags on my ’08 210. I was wonder what guys are doing to reinforce the partitions?

[iamcdn]

I just did this today and used a 4 ft piece of slotted angled steel from Home Depot. There happened to be pre drilled holes in the dividers fore and aft of the removable divider that I used to bolt through. Looks good and should work good.

[krt]

I just did this today and used a 4 ft piece of slotted angled steel from Home Depot. There happened to be pre drilled holes in the dividers fore and aft of the removable divider that I used to bolt through. Looks good and should work good.

thanks for the reply. I will have to take a look tonight. The only holes I recall in the slots for the divider are where the pins go through at the top to hold the divider in place. How low did you run the piece of angle across?

[iamcdn]

Here is a pic of my bracket beautifully modeled with my feet. It's a 48" long galvanized slotted angled steel from Home depot. It looks like the dividers aft of the removable dividers had holes drilled for the supports of the ballast pumps that were incorrect and Nautique decided to still use the divider and re-drill the holes for the supports. There were holes that were equivalent on both port and starboard sides so I just reused these holes. You could also attach this to the bolts used to attach the ballast pump support beam without issue I would think.

I was also lucky to find an unused hole near the floor of the divider fore of the removable divider which allowed me to install this bracket diagonally across the divider without attaching it to the removable divider and thus allowing easy install and removal of the divider.

I hope that makes sense.

[iamcdn]

Here's another thread:
http://www.planetnautique.com/vb3/sh...ht=divider+bow

[krt]

OK, thanks for all the info. I will take a look this weekend see what existing holes I might have on my boat.