Fish Box Divider?

[MayoChad]

Howdy, Fellas,

My 2520 has a full transom that has a fish box that runs almost the entire beam of the boat. I wondered if anyone had any clever ideas for putting a divider in it? That way maybe 1/4 could be for drinks, ice, and food, and the other 3/4 could be for fish. It'd be pretty cool to avoid having to trip over an ice chest on the deck.

Thanks,

Chad

 

[BradV]

what comes to my mind first is to build tracks on the bottom and two sides out of starboard and then just get a piece to slide in.

 

[TheOtherLine]

This has come up several times before. I think the problem has been that, in spite of some creative ideas, no one has been able to insulate the box well enough to keep the ice cold for an extended period of time.

I really like the idea and if a good solution came up, I'd add it to my project list. I'm running out of things to do and have to go to Grouper Jim's house to get new time consuming boat project ideas and a ponder beer. :lol:

Anyway, I had purchased some aluminum channel railings that I was going to install in the box, vertically. Then, using starboard, slide the "divider" into the channel and into another railing set horizontally. The problem I had was that the box is not a square. It starts off wide at the top and narrows toward the bottom on ONE side (if I recall). I tried cutting a template out of cardboard but could never get it to fit quite right.

Then, if you divide it in 3rd's, the 2 "ends" have drainage. Do you make the middle the "dry" side? How do you keep it dry unless your divider is permanent and you seal it? If you do it in 3rd's, no third is big enough to store fish.

Anyway. I gave up. Just use a cooler and keep the transom box as a kill box and dry storage in the containers.

I never understood why Parker, a true fishing boat, didn't put fish boxes in the deck. Is it a design issue? No room?

 

[BradV]

Parker doesnt have fish boxes in the deck because of a maintenance issue. They would have to add macerators or something along those lines to pump out the boxes. This way they drain by gravity. The bottom of my box is insulated with foam it would be the lid that needs something more to keep it cool. I was actually thinking of making the back hatch a cooler and buying one of those fish bags that they make that are soft sided and stowable. That way you could keep the fish cool IF you caught any and just take them off the boat to where you were going to clean them without dirtying up several items. Just a thought.

 

[Porkchunker]

What? You guys don't like the fishy taste to your sandwiches and fish slime on your beer cans? What a bunch of wimps.

Dave

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[TheOtherLine]

No really....I'd really like to know why a boat, touted as a hard core fishing boat, doesn't have a least one, insulated fish box in the deck. :?

 

[John_Madison CT]

i'm thinking about putting in a piece of starboard of something. I do use it as a fishbox, but would like to keep the sodas out of the fish slime.

Come to think of it, I may put in another drain. Leave the main one in place for the fish and one to the side for the drinks, sodas etc..

 

[ryanc2]

What? You guys don't like the fishy taste to your sandwiches and fish slime on your beer cans? What a bunch of wimps.

Dave

aka

:lol:

We use the chum knife to spread the mayo on our sandwiches! Mullet sandwiches all around!

 

[Bryan 2530]

I don't know about you guys, but the transom box on my 2530 is way to small to put fish in.

I use mine to store lines, fenders, cast net and cleaning equipment.