no drill FF mount on Malibu Stealth-12 foot brace rail

While I no longer have my old Malibu Stealth 12, I thought folks might benefit from this DIY, which could be applied to many paddle yaks with adjustable foot braces.

(Sorry, I don't have all the sizes of the parts handy, but this gives the idea of what I did).

Here's a first pic which (in addition to showing my kludgy short-term fix) shows an allen wrench in one of the back screws holding on the left foot brace:


Here's what I replaced the screw/bolt with. It's a RAM mount small ball with female threads that matched the original screw. I screwed the new screw into the female threaded RAM ball, and then cut off the screw head with a hacksaw and cleaned up the cut with a file.  I used brass for both corrosion resistance and something softer to cut than SS, but one could use SS.




Here's the final install of the FF mount. (You can kind of see the top my DIY PVC pipe scupper mount, too, for a completely no-drill/no-hole install).


I was initially using a small LiPo battery in a sealed tuperware-like cup in the cup-holder. That battery died pretty quick, so I'd recommend sticking with good, old-fashioned SLA stored inside the hull. On most yaks, if you want a no-drill install you can just close the front hatch on the wire without much leakage.

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Pix are showing now, great DIY idea, Thanks!

Very cool! Thanks for posting.

Love this idea!  Thanks for the tip!