Grills on the boat. Lets see them.

[firedog]

woolznaz
I like your setup for your grill. How do you have the brackets setup for attaching it to the side rails? Thanks.

[Seon]

I slapped together this mount with existing material I had on hand for the new to me pontoon's maiden voyage. Here's my son just chilling out.

[woolznaz]

woolznaz
I like your setup for your grill. How do you have the brackets setup for attaching it to the side rails? Thanks.

It's a pretty cheap system, firedog. This picture will help a little along with the explanation I'm about to give.

Think of it as a triangular right side frame, and a triangular left side frame. These two frames store separately when not in use. Each side has a few points, or "T" joints where I can slip PVC pieces in to slip the contraption together when in use, but break it down when stored. Just like any PVC male/female connections, but I just do not use glue on anything that connects the right side to the left.

Now, to your question about attaching to the rail. It just basically "grips" the rail or fence.

In this picture you can see I have a "T" in the left and right top (horizontal) supports. That "T" creates the legs going down (vertical). You can actually see that T goes directly into a sideways T and that sideways T provides another point for the left and right sides of this contraption slip together as described above.

Follow the vertical PVC down and you can see gravity holds it down as it sits on the aluminum deck just outside the fence. What you cannot see is that the horizontal support (the top support) goes a couple inches past that top T to extend the top support inside the boat. It continues just inside the aluminum rail on the top of my fence. Once it gets inside the pontoon's rail or fence, there is a 90 degree elbow bending it down. That 90 degree elbow and the T are just far enough apart to "grip" the aluminum rail at the top of my gate. That grip keeps the entire thing from falling into the water. I allowed room to wrap some foam pipe insulation around the inside vertical part (the elbow you cannot see that is just inside the boat) to get a better grip on the fence.

Just inside the rail, where that elbow bends it down on both the right and left (separate) triangular frames, is another point where I slip a connecting PVC piece in to connect left and right sides when in use.

It's light, cheap, breaks down and sets up in about 2 minutes. You can engineer something better very easily, but this was how I did it.

[firedog]

woolznaz
Thank you the the detailed explanation and 8 x 10 color glossy photos with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back explaining what each one was..... ( Line from Arlo Guthrie's " Alice's Restaurant" ) I will print out your instructions and picture, I think I can put one together. I have a grill just like yours that we take on picnics and such. Just getting things planned and put together for our new pontoon. Looking forward to spring thaw ! 10 degrees here this morning and a skiff of snow, more tomorrow. Not as bad as New England but with a new water toy we are getting excited!!

David

[woolznaz]

firedog, you will come up with a better design if you give it a little thought. What I threw together was just supposed to be version 1.0, then I would refine it later to make it better. However, it has worked well enough that we are on our 3rd year of using it, so I guess I'll stick with 1.0.

You can do anything you want at Alice's restaurant...... ceptin' Alice. You'll want to stay off the "Group W" bench. If you run low on supplies you can get some more "just a half a mile past the railroad tracks". OK, I'll quit now. I liked your song choice above.