Salon Table Storage Under Engine Hatch
The engine compartment on my 2001 2900 SCR (single 6.2L) has a lot of room to store stuff and seems to be a kind of "catch all' for storing fishing poles, water skis (to ski behind our JetSki, not the 2900!), life jackets, etc. But even with all that space I thought a unique space to store our rear salon table and pedestal would be under the port-side engine hatch (Maxum's 2001 2900 has two engine hatches, lifted manually). I used galvanized "U-shaped' steel brackets (purchased from Home Depot), lined with strips of 2mm neoprene held on with double-stick tape. I used 2" long carriage bolts and discovered the 1-1/2" thick engine hatch is actually hollow! Carriage bolts were used to minimize the protrusion from the deck under the snap-in carpet, plus I like the way they look... more "factory" looking with no screw heads showing.
Before and after photos are attached showing the table, pedestal (I used lightweight 3" diameter dryer vent tubing to hold that---held with hose clamps screwed into the first layer only (no carriage bolts due to the light weight).
This may look kind of "trailer-park/shoddy", but it's lightweight, efficient and I figure who cares how it looks as the engine hatch is seldom open.
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Jeff Means
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