Rick Gold

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Dave's kayak storage video yesterday gave me some inspiration. My house is on a river and always has kayaks littering the yard. I needed a rack to hold more than a few kayaks, and one that could be moved around as needed. I came up with a design that can hold 8 (or even 10) kayaks and paddleboards, and built it in a single morning.

I used whole 10' conduit sections as legs, with 3' bent for feet. The legs on each side are connected by 5' crossbars using t-connectors. For the racks themselves, I used 5' sections with a 15 degree bend about 3" off center on each side. These are connected to the legs about a foot apart vertically using cross over clamps. The leg-foot braces are 2.5' with 45 deg. connectors. Very simple, with minimal cutting and no waste since everything is 10'/5'/2.5'

I needed something as an occasional desk/workstation that would fit tight against the wall in a bedroom and stay out of the way most of the time. At only about a foot wide with a heavy monitor on top it had to be really stable.

The design my wife and I ultimately came up with worked perfectly. We used a regular 36" x 12" shelf board purchased from the home center with a keyboard drawer found online attached underneath.

This was the first Maker Pipe project for us but it took only a few hours and was surprisingly easy to accomplish. We're already planning several other projects.