hey guys welcome back to window fishing darren here and today i'm going to show you
how to increase your storage space on your sun dolphin five-fold yeah i'm serious all right
kind of fun story i actually found this on a tributary of the ohio river i was out kayak
fishing saw this thing submerged underneath a tree it was full of mud it's been there for
a while so hooked it up to my fishing kayak pedaled it back to my trailer and they took
it home i actually called the police they came over took the vin number and essentially said
if no one picks this thing up uh it's yours and that was a year ago so i figured now it is
time to start modifying this normal kayak this little sun dolphin aruba 10 into a fishing kayak
all right since we're going to be cutting into this thing here in a little bit i'm
actually going to strap it to the table so it doesn't move around a whole lot
okay where we're going to get that extra storage space well you see here you open a patch they
just give you a little bit of room here not that much and there is a ton of room underneath this
plastic so we're going to cut into this and i'm going to show you a few of the nuances and you're
going to be able to fold up the sides and make it look really nice and get a whole lot more storage
area all right now remember if you love kayak fishing my videos drop every thursday at 11 45
am hit that sub bell notification i will keep them coming all right now the first step of doing this
is you're going to really mark an area we're going to cut now you're going to leave a little
bit of lip here because that's what we're going to use the heat gun to fold the bat
all right there it is now you don't need to make this level because the reality is you're going
to be folding this up and you're not gonna see it so um i thought i did a pretty good job just
making the mark just eyeing it a couple inches um so now what you're gonna do is you need to grab
one of two tools all right the first tool you can use is if you have a cutting wheel on your grinder
that'll make quick work of this i'll do that a little bit
as you can see it cuts through really fast but if you don't have one of these and it's kind
of difficult to get the angles you can also use a much simpler option which is the carpenter's
knife i'd recommend you put a new blade in here i just got this one now ready to make cut
since this does take a little bit longer i'm just going to use my grinder
all right had a few almost through just this little part over here just cut
because the angle is weird
now you just freed yourself up a lot more space this is great here's the thing this is gonna
this is not going to affect your buoyancy at all um sometimes you open this up there'll be
some styrofoam in here this one does not have any but this is not a problem so what we're going to
do is we're going to make a cut right here here here and then here and then we're going to get a
heat gun on these and fold them up and let them cure and so these will be backed up underneath
so you're gonna make the line but leave a little bit of just a little bit at the top
all right see i've kind of made a few more cuts um all the angles here because the idea is
once you heat this up with a heat gun you can kind of fold it back
it's already starting to do it a little bit kind of fold these back here all the way around
but applying heat will help it get cool and then we'll let cool after that and they should
all kind of stay up there so let's go ahead and get the heat gun working definitely recommend
using some gloves because splash is going to get hot you need to mold it with your hand
all right
get a nice pinch on that
if you have some wood clamps these will be nice as well because once
they get nice and hot instead of you holding them
you can just kind of tighten these up and let them cool like that as you work your way around so
all right now after you got these heated up you'll notice as i put my hand around here
smooth all the way around not going to cut yourself no need to do any sanding
looks pretty sharp all these are flaps are bent underneath
they're cooling i still feel some of them are warm boom man 5x storage on your sun dolphin if you
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