my rainy day boat project

hey peeps! just thought I would share my latest do it yourself project that I have been working on the past couple of days. I have been building rodholders and will be building a new rodholder rack and side rails. here is a pic of what I have been using for several years now.Attachment 88281 the rack works ok for catfishin and for trolling cranks but the wood, which was used before I used it, is starting to show signs of age. and the plastic holders are not the strongest in the world. so I started bending up some metal to see what I could make and here is what I have come up with.Attachment 88282 they have some features of a driftmaster,and some features of monsters, and some of my own thoughts. its a 3 positionholder, 0 degrees for rigging crappies and drifting for cats, about a 35degree position for trolling bandits, longlining jigs and for anchor fishing cats, and a vertical position for running on the water.the lower ring on the shaft is for the vertical position. the upper parts are made from 3/8 steel and the stem is made from a 1/2 inch grade 8 bolt.
and since I like to use as many poles as I own, I made a few extra! LMAO!Attachment 88283 14 of em are for me and 10 of em are for my fishing buddies boat. obviously it's a work in progress, today I am going to grind down all the welds and paint them up by dipping them in Van Sickletractor paint, black. then in a few days when the paint is dry I will dip them in plasti-dip for the rubber like coating.
for the rod rack and rails I purchased 42ft od 1 1/2 x1inch box aluminum. I plan on building grab rails for the sides of the boat and cutting a half inch wide slot along the top of it, and inserting bolt plates inside the aluminum so my rodholders will slide the length of the side rails and I canput them where ever I might want them. for the back I plan on building a removeable rack,same materials, but it will be up and off the floor, and hopefully much stronger than my wooden back-woods rod rack that I currently use.

I guess in a few days I will post more pics of the progress and ina week or so I should have the end result for ya all to see.

and yes I have too much time on my hands right now!:biggrin:biggrin:biggrin

Looks good!

They look great cant wait to see the finished project

I wish I was that handy I can hardly build a sandwich

Should work out good when finished.

Keep going, i need about six. Looking good.

Yep you have way too much time on your hands! But what you have done so far looks great!

I like em.

thanks everyone for the remarks... I appreciate it! I didn't get to o work on em yesterday evening like planned, had a b day party last night and I wasn't in much shape to go run power tools, if ya get my drift. Lol! hopefully today after I get my honey-do's done I can go get a coat of paint on em. seems like every time I start a project like this it takes 3 times as long as I thought it would, but all I can do is keep on keeping on! so I will have those finished pics for ya'all sooner or later, again, thanks for the replies.
btw, LSL angler, I have some nice, aged, sun dried plastic rodholders ya can have, just set your drag real light and it will be fine!

The 3 way design seems very clever and outside the box. Sounds like they will work great.

got 10 of them little headaches done.... maybe 25$$ each aint such a bad price! Attachment 88588Attachment 88589:biggrin

btw, I meant 25$ is cheap to go buy one compared to the work involved...LOL! these are not for sale. I didn't want anyone to think I was trying to make money off you guys, I aint here for that!

Very professional looking. I'm impressed.

$25 may be cheap compared to a the work but they will work as well or better than most any I have seen on the market. Having several positions is nice and being able to stick them straight up is nice addition also. Good and heavy and will last forever. Great work.

Very well thought out. Dang nice.

Good work! Looks great.

What did you coat them with? Those look great. Good job.

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Originally Posted by bwillaub

What did you coat them with? Those look great. Good job.

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the bottom coat is van sickle tractor paint from orchlens. cheap and sticks to most anything that is remotely clean. on the top half I used plasti-dip. that is the rubbery coating they use to coat the handles of pliers and such.
thank you all again for your positive remarks.

Nice job, You should be ready to go if the river stays down.

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Originally Posted by LSL Angler

Nice job, You should be ready to go if the river stays down.

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ya, mark, thats a big IF! river is up again after all that rain we had. tried fishing the river tonight and there were entire trees floating, too dangerous to anchor up in most spots. when the fishing picks up, I will be calling ya!

I finally have the rod holders finished!!!:biggrin:biggrin now its time for my rod holder holders, Lol! did some fabricating over the weekend and here is what I have come up with so far....
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more pics to come later this week. a few loose ends to tie up the I get to try my hand at a camo paint job... this should be interesting!
but I have to get her done this week because I am fishing for the next 4 weekends straight! :fish

Those are really nice holders. Well thought out project. Those will las a lifetime. Would never have though to incorporat the stand up as part of the holderThumbs UpThumbs Up

Attachment 89740got er done! thank the lord. was more work than I thought it would be, but what project aint! now its time to try her out, heading to loz saturday, WOOOO WEEE!
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a few more pics. :biggrin
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the rod holders and rails turned out great :highfive very nice and that lil' one is a hand full I bet

Lookin gooooood bro! Some heavy tackle for those Twain crappie, but it'll work!

Looking forward to next week already!

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Very nice. Well done.

You did an EXCELLENT job!! Looks great!!

Those do look great!!!!!!! Very Well done! The only way they could look better is if they were on my boat:biggrin

thanks, everyone! gonna try her out down at LOZ tomorrow and sunday. hope the weather man's wrong about the forecast, every time I go there the weather sucks! maybe I should have spent my time and money on a bimini top instead! Lol!

Lookin good

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