Rainy Day Yak Pimpin

 With all this rain we've been getting, and no calls to work (substitute teacher) I've been spending a lot of time pimping the yak for fishing and getting it ready for my first ocean trip at GS III. Since I don't have a nice dedicated angler yak like most of you, (Ocean Kayak Malibu II XL) I have had to get creative with rigging it.
 
 After checking out many threads on how others have rigged their yaks, I decided to build a ghetto bar (I guess that's what they are called) out of PVC pipe and some stuff I found at the dollar store. Anyway, I finished it up this morning and I think it should work great. First of all, it can be mounted to the yak at two different positions (just forward of my feet) to accommodate solo or tandom use. I discovered that 1/2 inch PVC pipe fits nicely through Scotty's side/deck mounts side holes. The main bar fits through the scottys mounts on both sides of the yak, and is reinforced with a wood dowel rod inside the pipe. To keep the bar from sliding side to side (even though the fit is snug thru the Scotty's mounts) I used a T-joint on the outside of each mount (not glued) and held them to the main bar with a pin and clip set-up. To keep the bar from rolling forward or back I glued elbows to both ends of the T-joints and angled them inward to lay flat on the top of the yak. To take the bar off the yak, all I need to do is pull 2 pins, pull off the 2 outside T-joints, and slide the bar out of the Scottys mounts.

 I used T-joints (threaded top) on the main bar for mounting the fish finder,VHF radio, compass, and camera mount.While at the dollar store I found a couple items that saved me some green. To mount the FF I found this plastic flag mast and holder, didn't use the mast but the holder worked great for the FF. It has a 3x4 inch flat section molded to a 1/2 inch pipe section that is 4 inches long. I attached the pipe section to a male threaded PVC end and attached the FF base to the 3x4 flat section. I also used the same flag holder set-up to make a mount for my VHF radio using velcro on the flat section and on the radio bag. The dollar store also had a mini camera tripod and the legs fit nicely into a piece of 3/4 inch PVC pipe, I glued a 1/2 inch threaded male end to this pipe and bingo , a camera mount. I found a 3 dollar navig. compass in the auto dept. at Wally World and mounted it to a T-joint as well.

 I plan on adding a navig. lite and 2 beverage holders to the end T-joint set-ups using the same methods. When all is complete my ghetto bar will accommodate a FF, VHF radio, camera, compass, navig. lite, and 2 beverage holders in any configuration I want. By the way the compass is not too close to anything metallic and works great. Waiting for the rain to stop to goop in my transducer.

 If I wasn't a computer illiterate I would post some pictures, but I don't know how
Can anyone help me with that?

See ya at Gimme Shelter III, Tad


 

I'm crappy on the computer as well. I would love to see some pics, cause I also have and fish out of a 2xl.

Here is the crete empty. And one extra PVC project I did; its the most usefull all.

Here are some photos,

 

 Ghetto Bar has screw in PVC mounts for FF, Compass, Camera, VHF Radio, Navigation light (not in photos) and 2 Beverage holders.

Hummm... Dual beer cozies??? 

Tad & Snapper -
Me likey what you've done with PVC.
and yes, dual cozies - nice touch!

Hummm... Dual beer cozies??? 

The wife wanted one too!

Love the compass and the camera mount!  Cant wait to see video from it! 

Nice job BANJOTAD. Got to have the brewsky nice and cold at all times.

Jedmo