Flush mouting Steps
 

I am looking for flush steps to make it easier to get up on the bow of the boat. Anyone have any ideas?

Jon

you mean like from the cockpit, right?

Yes I am trying to make it easier to get from the cockpit up onto the bow. The Formula has a deep cockpit and when you are trying to get up on the bow it is a pain. I am looking for something that I can cut into the forward bulkhead and allows me to step into it and up.

Try some RV places. I have seen steps that are like a bucket with a flat side in it . You just cut a hole in the wall and slide it in .

Boot that sounds like what I was thinking. Some cigs that I have seen have something like that but I think they are built into the mold?

Jon

Just built it out of some paneling and gel it in. Maybe go to a boat salvage yard and chop some cockpit steps out of it. Many of the newer boats have them.

Jon look in the Technical Q & A section for a post called "Wanted foot rest fabrication ideas " Posted by Dave M. I posted some pics of what I did for my 302 for the driver and passenger side maybe that will help. Rick G.

sorry about that , I didn't get what you were talking about

Rick how long was I asking for those pictures???? :D:D

Adrenaln no problem man. Actually after you said that you got me to thinkin about maybe putting a removable ladder there. But then that is just one more thing to have to stow for me....

Jon

Jon,
Check out these step pads by Eddie Marine.

http://www.eddiemarine.com/cart/cata...Name=Step+Pads

The Extra Large ones are ones we had custom fab'd for the replacement of the plastic steps in almost all Sonics. Too big for what you are looking for; but EMI makes them well.

Maybe you can make your own indent into the forward bulkhead, and use these to finish them off for a trick look.

OR,

Maybe two or three small grab handles installed with bolts and backer plates, like a ladder, with grip-tape applied to the top, just enough to hook the ball of your foot onto.

http://www.eddiemarine.com/cart/cata...e=Grab+Handles

Can't recall what kind of cabin door you have on a 302.

Would some foldup steps fit on the cabin door?
I'll try to draw what I am talking about (no autocad on this computer..).

Crap, Corel Draw is not my forte.
What I got in mind is steps made to match the door, hinged across the top to fold DOWN against the face of the door, or even INTO the face of the door if you wanted to remake the door (it is wood on a 302, right?). Then when you want to use them, you lift one of them (any of them since they are linked) and when you pull one out all of them come out (cause the sides have a linkage on them) and when fully out, the linkage pops into a slot so they don't fold down. Then you use them. When you are finished, you lift and press the linkage bar out of the "lock" slot and they fold down flush again...
If you like the idea I will draw it. If not, I'm not gonna waste time in Corel Draw (I could always sketch it on paper and take a digipic of it)

Sorry Jon my wife stepped on my Nikon digital last year and distroyed it and the pics there in. I only just got my new Sony 5.0 meg pix digital replacement. If you like what I did I will try this weekend to get some pics from different angles. Rick G.