Hey dave--

Did you reinforce the plywood around the screws with fiberglass or plywood?

I usually use wooden footbraces or bulkhead style footbraces and would like to know.

--eric

> Hey tod. if I were u I would just put the foot braces straight thru the
> side of the boat with some flush fiting hardware. Maybe you are goig for
> an all wood look but. if u are painting the hull, "which I would
> recomend cuz it looks better" you could even fibreglass over the
> heads on the outside when you do the rest of the hull then paint over
> them. The reson I say to put them straight into the hull is that they
> would be muich lighter and stronger. in my yare I put yakimas straight
> thru and they work great. I also have me backband mounted with epoxy and
> it regularly falls out... don't know why but... oh well. well... if you
> disagree with me on any of this, u are probably normal ;) hope this helps
> DAVE