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[echo1er]

@Yakin when melting it try and make a mushroom effect. So the top part is round after that sand it down with fine sand paper and then polish it.

[echo1er]

another area for fish grips.
A new pocket for snacks.
Just trying something new.

[echo1er]

here are some videos of the new mods.

Fish grip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl9SdS0Z4k8

extra pocket
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWazfpWpGB0

[Yakin]

Originally Posted by echo1er

A new pocket for snacks.

Is there any big reason why you used all rivets on that extra pocket except for the top two? or did you just run out?

[echo1er]

no reason at all. The top to screws came with the mesh pocket. The rivets is cause I finally got a rivet gun and I rivet the shit out of my kayak.

[Yakin]

Originally Posted by echo1er

no reason at all. The top to screws came with the mesh pocket. The rivets is cause I finally got a rivet gun and I rivet the shit out of my kayak.

Sound like me when I finally got a rivet gun and rivetted the hell out of my bait tank!

[AM3R1CN]

Originally Posted by dgax65

Brian
Don't forget your greatest engineering feat - the combination rod holder/evaporative cooling system/roll bar.



That thing was super bitchin'

color is king!
the anti-shark yak

[icelogger]

Here are a few mods i did to an X Factor. Bait tank with a t-500 pump. Adjustable FF on a yakattack track with ram mounted for head unit. I can slide and lock into place any where along the track. Transducer through hull set up with duct seal putty couplant. Foot trough lined with comfortable rubber matting material.

[Cbad Mike]

Originally Posted by icelogger

Here are a few mods i did to an X Factor. Bait tank with a t-500 pump. Adjustable FF on a yakattack track with ram mounted for head unit. I can slide and lock into place any where along the track. Transducer through hull set up with duct seal putty couplant. Foot trough lined with comfortable rubber matting material.

Looking Great!

[echo1er]

for all your GoPro guys.

[PapaDave]

Lacking the upper body strength to just yank a fish out of the water, I have been thinking of some small, inexpensive way to use a rod butt holder while tugging on the larger variety. Here is what I found, 1 1/4 inch tee, just thread your belt through the tee section. I ahve tried it and it seems to work, and it is comfortable and out of the way most of the time.

[Yakin]

Originally Posted by echo1er

for all your GoPro guys.

I would like to see how you attached this

[bus kid]

Originally Posted by Yakin

I would like to see how you attached this

with knotless string!

[Divad]

Originally Posted by bus kid

with knotless string!

These Knotless jokes are the best! Alway gives me a good laugh!

[Yakin]

Originally Posted by bus kid

with knotless string!

haha but I still used that knotless string to rob you of your reel-less rod

[Divad]

Originally Posted by Yakin

haha but I still used that knotless string to rob you of your reel-less rod

Come on, I walked a many Bamboo Forest looking for the right pole and even had to fight off a couple of Panda Bears.

[Yakin]

Originally Posted by Divad

Come on, I walked a many Bamboo Forest looking for the right pole and even had to fight off a couple of Panda Bears.

Oh yeah and the panda bear hides also

[tehburninator]

i just read this entire thread..... and my eyes are about to fall out and my girlfriend might keel me in the next 3 weeks.... great job everyone!!!

[DanaPT]

I had a wild hair and picked up a used outback on the forum. Now I have two kayaks (i will eventually sell one of them).

for about 1 week I had them side by side in the garage. Hard to do anything in the garage since they were in the way. Making things worse I really couldn't access them easily.

I needed a storage solution.

I Poked around on line and liked the idea of hanging the yaks on the wall on their sides. My pops was in town (a very clever man). We discussed and then off to Home Depot. I bought 2 X 10 ft sections of 3/4 inch steel pipe, 8 bolts @ 1/4 x 2 1/2 s & borrowed a pipe bender.

I Cut the pipe into 4 x 5ft sections and did this.
- hammer flat one side of the pipe about from the end to 6 inches down.
- Drilled two 1/4 inch holes in the newly flattened ends
- Bent away. Used a metal wired hanger as my template
- Bolted the bent pipe/racks on the wall.
- Hung kayaks.

What I still need to do is trim-down (shorten) the racks. I trimmed about 8 inches from the bottom hangers. That makes mounting and un-mounting way easier.


All said a very in expensive fix to storage.

[mtnbykr2]

damn it, now I don't have an excuse for getting that other kayak...looks great, thanks for sharin'....