If you go with a set of Scotty 1116/2116's you'll have integrated rod holders one less then to worry about. I'd also put them on pedestals, but make sure you don't put them too far back or else you'll be leaning over way too far. You'll want to mount them where you've got some good footing. I had to move our mounts forwards a bit because the previous owner decided to mount them on the very back of the gunwales(why he did this I'll never understand)
Sure is, but it's not like I'm sitting around and waiting for movies to DL. I run all my torrents off my NAS, not my laptop. RSS feeds automatically grab what I want (series that aren't televised in Canada for example).
You don't need a fancy proxy to get US Netflix, like I posted on page 1 a simple DNS change is all thats needed. You can find the DNS server IP's on Youtube... 5 mins and you're done.