Where do you attach your vice?

[hd002e]

Hey guys, I found a vice on my new to me sailboat and I am pretty excited as I’ve always wanted one (it’s the small things in life!). I don’t readily see where I would attach it. Where is a good place? Examples or photos would be welcome! Thank you!

[toddster8]

I’ve got so much vice that it’s pretty much spread all over the place.

I built a work bench into one side of the V-berth, to which my vise is bolted. Before that, I had it bolted to the underside of one of the settee hatches - just flipped it over to use.

[Tayana42]

I have a 1”x6” board long enough to span the cockpit seats. It has holes bored to fit the vice in a couple different of places and it does double duty as a fender board. I also tell my grandchildren it is a plank that they may have to walk if they don’t obey the captain quickly enough.

[JPA Cate]

Our vice is bolted to a piece of 1/2"plywood, and stowed in a locker. Originally, on our previous boat, it formed the plug for the V-berth, for the triangle shaped cushion that made the berths connect at the head of the bed, and hung upside down there. It was a good height for indoor work, but we used it outside a lot, too, for doing rigging work.

Ann

[ttex]

Bolted to a big piece of wood I had laying around.

[grantmc]

Same as the last 3 posters; a board. Would be great to have a little workshop on board, but economies of space prevent that.

[bensolomon]

Originally Posted by toddster8

Before that, I had it bolted to the underside of one of the settee hatches - just flipped it over to use.

That is genius! I have mine on a long board that I clamp to the pulpit.

[Bobby Lex]

Originally Posted by toddster8

I’ve got so much vice that it’s pretty much spread all over the place.

I had it bolted to the underside of one of the settee hatches - just flipped it over to use.

I have many vices, sailing is one of them actually.

But on my boat my vise is bolted the same way that toddster8 used to have his.

Bob

[wsmurdoch]

Like Tayana42 my vise can be bolted to several spots on a 2x6 fender board which can span the cockpit seats. I have also screwed or c-clamped it to a picnic table ashore and to the top of a wooden sea wall for heavier or messier work than I cared to do aboard.

[sail sfbay]

On my workbench at home. I did run across a Formosa sailboat with a separate workshop that had one on the workbench in it.

[MGRodems]

Mine is attached to a small piece of plywood. I clamp it to a companionway step for use.

[CarinaPDX]

And whatever you do, don't buy the vice that mounts onto the top of a winch. You really don't want to shower the winch with filings and sawdust...

Greg

[MicHughV]

Y'all carry a vice on board ????

tch..tch....I hold the item in my bare hands...

[sailcrazy]

After carrying a small, conventional vice for lots of years, I bought a Harbor Freight Drill Press vice. It's a much smaller profile, but does all the things I've needed a vice to do. And it stores flat. Like others have commented, I have a plywood board with holes predrilled to bolt the vice to, and I can clamp it to the companionway stairs, or set it in the cockpit, or set it on a seawall if need be.

[PhilC]

As many have above, it's bolted to a piece of 1" ply, right next to the vice is the base for the drill press so I can drill things held in the vice if need be.