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 then 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 i'm actually kind of excited that
i have it because i usually go on a trip every year down to the aep recreation lands there's
like 900 ponds that you go pond hopping and some of them are very difficult to get to and the issue
i run into is that my native slayer propel 10 is actually pretty heavy and i can't get it out to
those hard-to-reach ponds where the fish are large and aggressive it's going to be really
nice to have this lightweight fishing kayak that i can kind of drag through the woods and not really
care about a whole lot 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 are we 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 back
up and so you don't have this rough cut you see a lot of the videos out there
um they'll do a straight cut here and they'll try to sand it but the reality is that it's still
a rough rough cut you want to be reaching back there and cutting your hand when you pull it out
or scratching it so what we're going to do is we're going to leave probably about two
inches we're going to make a line all the way around and we're going to do that real fast
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 going to see it so um i thought i did a pretty
good job just making the mark just eyeing it a couple inches 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 to
cut because the angle is weird
see here check this guy out
now you just freed yourself up for 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 um but this is not a problem so what we're
gonna do is we're gonna make a cut right here here here and then here and then we're gonna get
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 uh once you heat this up with a heat gun you can kind of fold it back
and 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
got a nice pinch on that
so
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 once you got these heated up you notice 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 what once was this much storage
is now this hey keep in mind this is just one mod i am doing of many to the aruba tent so
i'll throw the playlist up in the cards and you can check out the rest if you like this
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