06-10-2010, 08:39 PM
[quote albinotrout]You wouldn't have any pics left of your old leigh would you? Last year I rigged up my old leigh and got it out on the water with a minn kota 34. Custom made motor mount/rod rack. Gotta love PVC![:p][/quote]
Hey albinotrout I dont have a picture handy but could probably scan an old one of it when I get back from vacation. The kickboat I had was called a Green River and was 8' made by Leigh and had the green and black pontoons with the rino hide skins on it I think thats what its called. They were really heavy duty made like the white water rafts are now.
I made my motor mount and battery mount out of some 3/4" SQUARE metal tube the thin wall but it was still heavier than pvc for sure. I always had a 27 series deep cycle battery on it so I went with steel and it worked great.
I loved the kickboat but had one of the rubber air bladders start leaking and talked to Venture Outdoors that sells a pontoon like the leigh and said they could retrofit my pontoons to fit their new air bladders but would be $450 to $500 so I decided to sell it and stick to my 14' aluminum boat. I aired it up and showed the guy that bought it what was wrong and where to get it fixed but he said he had a place to get a replacement air bladder for it. I bought it for $800 new when kickboats where kind of just coming out and then sold it for $150 with the motor mount, oars and locks and stiripping apron since it had a bad air bladder that needed replaced.
I loved it and really didnt have a complaints other than the problem with the air bladders in the pontoons.
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Hey albinotrout I dont have a picture handy but could probably scan an old one of it when I get back from vacation. The kickboat I had was called a Green River and was 8' made by Leigh and had the green and black pontoons with the rino hide skins on it I think thats what its called. They were really heavy duty made like the white water rafts are now.
I made my motor mount and battery mount out of some 3/4" SQUARE metal tube the thin wall but it was still heavier than pvc for sure. I always had a 27 series deep cycle battery on it so I went with steel and it worked great.
I loved the kickboat but had one of the rubber air bladders start leaking and talked to Venture Outdoors that sells a pontoon like the leigh and said they could retrofit my pontoons to fit their new air bladders but would be $450 to $500 so I decided to sell it and stick to my 14' aluminum boat. I aired it up and showed the guy that bought it what was wrong and where to get it fixed but he said he had a place to get a replacement air bladder for it. I bought it for $800 new when kickboats where kind of just coming out and then sold it for $150 with the motor mount, oars and locks and stiripping apron since it had a bad air bladder that needed replaced.
I loved it and really didnt have a complaints other than the problem with the air bladders in the pontoons.
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