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Raft Frame Floor & Motor Mount - NFO Avenger - kandersonSLC - 02-16-2014 Frame is great, but wanted a floor to store gear and to minimized dropped equipment into water. Found this stuff that is intended for kennel floors but is popular with whitewater rafters, and I can see why. Light, strong, easy to shape, and water passes through. Also added quick-connect seat bracket, and these strong L-brackets and added poly-wood for motor mount on frame. Without a floor, felt a little exposed on the water. [inline "Frame Floor 1.JPG"] This is better and will let me store gear next to seat. [inline "Frame Floor 2.JPG"] Grid is easy to cut for custom fit. [inline "Frame Floor 3.JPG"] It all comes together. [inline "Frame Floor 4.JPG"] Poly-wood and heavy-duty L-brackets make for solid motor-mount. [inline "Frame Floor 5.JPG"] [signature] Re: [kandersonSLC] Raft Frame Floor & Motor Mount - NFO Avenger - flygoddess - 02-17-2014 Having had our frame models a tad longer [] This is a helpful suggestion. However, there is the issue with the sliding deck on ours the single man version. I had my standing deck slide under the seat on one outing and I accidentally dropped a loaded reel that I was getting ready to put on a rod. The reel hit the metal deck and bounced right in the water!!!![mad] So with a visit to Kirkhams I bought some mesh cloth and did the same thing as you have pictured. It works like a dream with or without the standing deck. Just mount it on top with deck Very clean set up there my friend, just sharing the bouncing idea.[] [signature] Re: [flygoddess] Raft Frame Floor & Motor Mount - NFO Avenger - kandersonSLC - 02-17-2014 D'oh! Leave it to me to overly complicate things [:/] The mesh idea is sure a lot easier and cheaper and will obviously catch smaller items. I'll be paying a visit to Kirkams. Thanks for the ideas. [signature]