kayak rigging suggestions

Great mods man, i was thinking my self to devise a way to hold spearguns to my yak. Problem solved. I have yet to find the stuff for doing it though..

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pm me your address and I'll send you what you need in a few days

Thank you brother, you are a Prince, but i am not in the Usa I am pretty sure i can get the materials locally ...Thank you anyway ..

hey monster slayer, the yellow velcro strap that he is using, is a cord wrap from west marine. you can also use a velcro strap from the freestyle watches or you can even make your own.

go to a hardware store and get a pack of velcro and have a male end and a female end in the other side.

You just need to change your perspective on the way u see things. a trip to the hardware store can be a lot of fun, for me a plastic shoe box with interlocking lids turned into the perfect storage for my 510 lure/takcle boxes (the small plastic seethru ones) and it fits perfectly behind my seat in my prowler 13.

everytime u look @ something look at it with the riiging vision, not the consumer vision and you'll be ok

were you get the rivet for the kayak? any special tool to mount them? A friend gave a kayak because it was leaking, I found the small crak on the bottom and would like to prepare it for fishing and spearing.

Pucho

The kayak store in Ft. Lauderdale sells SS rivets to use with rigging. They have a black top and match nicely with black plastic components. I also found SS rivets in West Marine These were steel color and damn expensive, $1.50 per rivet (large size).

If you want to use pop rivets on a boat, and need to minimize water leaking through, look into "sealing end rivets" at McMaster. They are vailable in aluminum or stainless, and cost more like $7-$14 for a box of 25-50 for most sizes. I found them to work MUCH better than open ended pop rivets for repairing thin aluminum boats, but I can't say that I have ever tried them on plastic.

First pic is the sealing rivet. The second and third are other styles that work very well on softer materials like plastic. I used them once to attach a thin plastic measuring tape to the top of a plastic ice chest.

Great post Jeff, thanks.

How could I rig a diving flag to my yak?

An ocean kayak has a hole for a rudder at the back end. That's where I put a dive flag.

Hummm...no such hole on Cobra´s, i was thinking more of a sand buggy kind of flag or whip ...

Pucho.. about the rivets, I got some ss and another aluminum ones at home depot and they where not that expensive. You can also do like lunker and get them on ebay.

Pucho, another thing you can do to fix your kayak the RIGHT WAY, not the puertorican way is to get your hands on a plastic welder gun. You can order this at harbor freight tools for $50 or probably at any specialty tool store in Puerto Rico. Just make sure that you are getting the 110 volt unless you have an air compressor then u can get the one for the air compressor. You can find some helpfull videos on you tube for this. Also, you can call the kayak manufacturer and tell them that you need to repair one of their kayaks and most likely they'll send you a few of the same color plastic rods that you'll need.

Monster, an easy and useful way to mount a dive flag on your yak, I use one of my scotty style rod holders put a 7'7" fishing rod (without the reel) and slip on a dive flag to the top of the rod. This way it stands taller and about an eye level view of your average boater. This way they are most likely to see your flag easier than if it was at a lower level.

Great hint!! thank you

So since the weathers so foul i figured id get a few things done after school that otherwise id ignore. BTW neither of these changes were ideas of my own the flag pole is the same hau uses and the velcro straps are i believe the same as lunkerbusters. The flagpole is from kmart and is actually a bicycle flag pole i guess for children or old people or safety gurus. The idea behind it for me was that its so flexible it can permanently afixed to the yak and then bent over and tied down for while your on the move.. Becasue my yak is so short, though, i couldnt do it that way. No matter where i would of installed it once bent over it would of gotten in the way of where i my arms and paddle would be flailing about while paddling. Luckily a tube of epoxy i have fits perfectly into one of my rear scupper holes. So i cut it in half, drilled a hole in the bottem and then epoxyed the base of the flag into the tube. so while tying it down would of been much more conveniant, i can slip it into the same velcro straps that hold the gun. easy enough. obviously the straps are in place with stainless steal casue i dont want to deal with rust in a week. also the straps can be a lot tighter than in the picture,, and while it seems like the gun is held there in an awkward place its really the best for me considering my yak is so short that anywhere further forward would be in the way.
If anyone thinks my little rig has its faults trust me i know, but youd calll me a genius if you saw it compared to how i did things before.

this site might help

http://www.topkayaker.net/Arti…ishDive/KayakDiving5.html

i agree judah.., i need something to shade caught fish or even better a cooler, but the size cooler i would need to fit fish wont fit in that area.. once fins mask anchor anchor line weight belt and everything else is stowed this thing looks like its ready to siink,, so room is somehwat sparse for things like that.. and i use the side cleat for anchoring when the current is minimal or the front little eyelet when currents stronger