Solution to Revolution black hole

[Blue in Green]

My main peeve with the revolution is that the most easily accessable storage area is also the most useless. The hatch between your legs opens straight into the hull, but there's nothing to stop items from shifting to unreachable places in the hull. Does anyone have a better solution to utilizing this space? This is where I would prefer to keep all of my tackle.

[Blue in Green]

My only idea so fare is to get several storage containers that can fit through the hatch and have a piece of velcro which attaches each one to the bottom of the hull. Some type of 12X20 inch tray would be great and would keep items from sliding into the unreachable zone, but there's no way to get something like that inside the hull.

[marshdaddy]

Mine came with a tackle tray. Yours didn't????

[Blue in Green]

Yeah, but you could fit so much more down there

[marshdaddy]

Wal Mart sells a waterproof box in the camping section. I think it about $6. Holds my camera, phone, keys, wallet and because of the size and shape, it can't move very far. I keep a couple of them inside the hole. Easy to grab when needed.

[Nobody]

Tie a piece of rope to it!

[Blue in Green]

I'm starting to like the idea of velcroing a bunch of tupperware containers to the bottom of the hull.

[docsib]

My only idea so fare is to get several storage containers that can fit through the hatch and have a piece of velcro which attaches each one to the bottom of the hull.

Been thinking about this, too, and even bought some extra velcro last week. I hadn't thought of the rope idea, but now . . .

[Nobody]

Just make sure you use color coded rope:

Red for first aid kit
Blue for ???
green for ???
orange
yellow
...................... Well you get the idea.

[Blue in Green]

I like the containers because you could leave the tops off while fishing and have easy access to everything.

[Racechaser]

I have some stuff that that will go down there to make a box to keep stuff from shifting. PM me your schedule and where you live and I'll let you look at it.

[yak-aholic]

I came up with an idea for the Prowler Trident rod pod that might work. Get some pad eyes and epoxy them to the bottom of the yak and run a piece of bungee through them. Kinda like in the tank well of most yaks. Then you could put whatever down there and bungee it down. Let me know if it works.

[bmac]

I've heard of running rope around a scupper in front and back of a hatch and using it as an internal trolley to hook boxes to.

[Crow]

How about gluing a pool noodle across the boat fore and aft of the hatch so things can't slide out of reach? I got the idea when I installed my transducer. I put down a piece of noodle in front of it to keep things from sliding back and dislodging the 'ducer then thought why not do that all the way across the bottom of the hull? I haven't gotten around to doing that yet on my outback but it seems like a good idea. Also I wait till I am on the water before putting things down the hatch. My acceleration and braking in the yak aren't quite enough to move things out of reach of the hatch while fishing.

[bigredbobber]

how about weld a plastic box to fit your hatch? The PBG has the same problem with the giant hatch in the middle. I'm thinking of rigging some kind of plastic box with material similar to plastic cutting boards. I'll try to make it so it sits just under the hatch with velcro on the bottom or another attachment method. No noise, no lost stuff in the black hole, and focused on fishing.

Just thinking out loud. Rope idea is novel, though.

[Blue in Green]

The problem is that you cant get a box of any substantial size through the hatch. Several good ideas here though

[Where Y'ak?]

I second the pool noodle idea.