Marine mounting is a different challenge than vehicle or home mounting. Salt water corrodes bare metal, constant vibration loosens cheap hardware, and suction cups simply don’t work in a marine environment. The guides below cover phones, tablets, fish finders, GPS units, antennas, transducers, and Scotty system accessories.
If you’re installing a VHF antenna on your boat, the mount is just as important as the antenna itself. A weak or undersized mount reduces performance, introduces vibration, and can fail under real-world conditions like wind load, saltwater spray, and rough water. Get the mount wrong and you’re either replacing
Your phone on a boat is doing a lot more than it does in your car. It is your music, your weather radar, your communication backup, your depth finder app, and sometimes your primary navigation. A mount that falls off at the dock is a problem. One that lets go
A kayak track mount system is the single most useful upgrade you can make to a fishing kayak. Without one, every accessory you add requires its own set of drilled holes. Change your mind about where a rod holder should live, and you are either drilling again or living with
Installing SiriusXM radio on a boat is not the same as installing it in a car. The environment is harsher, the mounting surfaces are different, and the equipment has to deal with vibration, moisture, sun exposure, and movement that you simply do not get on the road. The good news
A boat drink holder sounds simple until you actually need one. Boats move, bounce, vibrate, and get wet. A cup holder that works fine in a car, patio chair, or golf cart can be useless on the water if it does not mount securely or hold the drink deep enough.The
The Garmin Striker 7 series — including the newer Striker Vivid 7sv and 7cv — hits a sweet spot for boaters. Big enough screen to be useful, affordable enough to run on smaller boats, and flexible enough to mount in a variety of locations. But the mounting setup you choose