I took a few minutes this morning to screw in the Scotty mounts and put on the bungee grid on the fore and aft deck of the new board. I used 550 cord for the stand off loops around the leash plugs and some pretty thick gauge bungee from REI for the cross members. For the Scotty mounts, I used #12 Stainless Sheet Metal screws with panheads at 1 1/4" long. 1" will work also (2 of the screws are 1" because the Home Depot near my house can't keep their fastner section squared away - I'll try to change those out when a HD head comes out of a butt orifice). Be forewarned that 1 1/2" screws are too long - when you get the screws to set in better, the foam deck pad will compress and the original clearance gets reduced. Lower the clutch on your drill when you try to set theses mounts onto the deck - slow and steady and you'll be fine. With the mounts, the bungee grids and a SurfCo flexible fin on, this board weighed in at 39.5 pounds (there might have been some water clinging around, but that's just bonus points after the evaporation).
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