Aloha, its Robert with blue planet surf. Today's video is gonna be all about
building a surfboard rack and at the end of the video I'm also going to talk a
little bit about what's new here at Blue Planet, February of 2020, we're moving so
we're busy building out the shop and I thought this would be a good opportunity to show
how to build a rack just using a 4x4 or 4x6 and then a 2x2 and notching
it out so you can screw the crossbar into the big piece of wood here. this
makes a really strong rack. I've been using it for about 10 years at my house
I built a similar rack using 4 x4's and 2x2's for horizontal storage
its holding up really well and I just wanted to share how to do it fairly
simple and inexpensive if you want to store multiple boards. I've been using it
with SUP race boards surf skis and equipment and it's holding up really
well. first of all, the materials you need are the 4x4 or 4x6 and then 2x2's,
wood glue and screws. the tools you need are basically a circular saw, a
chisel, a square, a tape measure and a screw gun and drill so very basic. we're
going to notch out the wood I'm going to show you how to notch out the wood using
a circular saw and then we're going to glue it in screw it in pre-drill holes
screw it together and then set it up against the wall so we're using it for
for vertical storage, basically boards standing up against the wall.
so we have I have a gap here between each crossbar of about 15 inches in
between each one, that allows us to put three boards, about three boards between
each crossbar. stand up paddleboards have deck pads on them so they're not as
likely to get scratched if you put multiple boards against each
other. if you're storing surfboards or you know used boards with wax on them or
anything like that and you want to have one crossbar for each board you would
space them closer together depending on obviously how thick your boards are and
so on for horizontal storage on my board rack I have a little bit bigger gaps too
because I leave the fins on the boards I have to stagger the fins slightly but so
depending on how far apart you want the boards to be, you want to
measure the distance between each rack, once you figure that out, you mark
the locations of your cuts. For the two by twos, the actual dimensions are one
and a half inches wide so you make two lines that are one and a half inches
apart then you cut the sides get a nice clean cut along the lines you made and
then you cut out a few notches in between and then you can use the chisel
to kind of break out the wood and you can just by doing that you can get a
pretty clean notch you don't really need to do anything else in this case I'm
doing a lot of them so I just also set up a router to kind of clean up the
bottom of the cut but that's an optional step so and then once I have then all
the notches cut out I cut the crossbars to the right length in this case I'm
using about 24 inches is the length three and a half inches is the width of
the wood here so I got about 21 inches sticking out here or 20 and a half
something I got which is good for storing the board's it's kind of
standing up if you're having them horizontal you might want to make this a
little bit wider depending on the size the width of your boards so just I'm
gonna measure it according to your needs and then what I do is I pre-drill the
holes for all the crossbars a particular one here I'm gonna make crossbars that
go all the way across so we can store boards against it from both sides and
I'm gonna pre-drill the holes make sure they're like centered along the
centerline pre-drill holes and then glue them in and once we have that done I'm
gonna mount it in the shop on four by four legs standing up
and then we'll have then we'll paint it and it'll be ready to go I use gorilla
glue to glue it in so the gorilla glue kind of expands to fill any gaps you
might have and get a nice tight fitting connection but by notching it out like
this it's a very strong connection it's not going to get loose
I'd out at our old shop we had two by fours against the wall and we drilled
holes into them round circular holes and put round dowels into them 3/4 inch
dowels which worked fine but over time those dolls can get loose or break if
you put a lot of weight on them they're definitely not as strong as a 2x2
notched into a solid piece of wood so this is a much stronger way so for a new
shop I figured we might as well have builds strong solid racks okay so once
you finish putting everything together you can add some padding to the rack and
what I like to use is this PVC tape that holds up really well even outdoors PVC
tape that I get at Home Depot it's not that pretty it has like white print on
it but it works pretty well I've just put one piece over the end this is just
pipe insulation foam I think this one one inch inside diameter then I'm going
to just wrap this thing with that tape
okay so that's how you can build a solid board rack that you can use for all
different kinds of applications hope you enjoyed that I just wanted to update you
with some news even though we still have a lot of work left to do here and we got
to move our shops and everything I've previously committed to going to New
Zealand to the Auckland Paddlefest next weekend and I'm next week Thursday on
February 20th I'm gonna be an Auckland at the sub centre and at the sub shed
I'm gonna have links down below if you live in Auckland area please come by to
one of those events and I'll be happy to answer any questions talk about stand-up
paddle surfing racing foiling wing foiling all that stuff that I'd love to
do and like to talk about so if you have any questions or not any of that stuff
and be happy to to talk to you in Auckland and then I'll be at the race
next weekend haven't really been training that much so hopefully I can
keep up with all the New Zealand paddlers also at our venue shop we got
some incredible deals right now we got a moving sale so we're trying to blow it
inventory and we also have an incredible auction where we have over 30 boards I
believe at incredibly low prices, pennies on the dollar just think older inventory
that we want to move: race boards, SUP surfboard, Starboards, Kazuma boards foil
boards, all kinds of stuff, so check it out. I have the link to that in the
description down below as well. So I hope you enjoy the videos. As always, if you do,
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Aloha