How to mount your bass boat electronics

There are about hundred places you can mount a fish finder/chart plotter on a bass boat. A industry trend is to mount several of these near the driver. While I have fallen victim to this trend also,  I have found that one unit can server as GPS unit and only show my map in realtime. Another unit is fish finder and now a third can only show side imaging.
While some of these unit are as large a 13" computer monitor, and it seems bigger is better. The problem is still how to mount them. Bass Boat are made of fiberglass and if you have ever drilled a hole in fiberglass after a while it tends to crack and the hole opens. The people from Ram Mounting Systems have solved this issue. They have several mounts that are for bass boats and chart plotters. The one I like to use is their RAM-111U  UNIVERSAL ELECTRONIC MOUNT, with its powder coated marine grade aluminum mount, consists of a double socket arm, one 2.5" diameter round base with 1.5" rubber ball and flat 6.25" x 2" rectangular plate. The rectangular plate contains different combinations of pre-drilled holes which will match up to many Lowrance or Humminbird devices.


While these mounts keep your electronics in one place while you are driving your bass boat. Always remove the electronics when your boat is being stored or at a hotel. I have heard so many stories about people have these stollen from their boat. While the mounts are only about $50 the hardware they hold can cost thousands.