*We have taken it out twice so far and love it **enjoyable.fishing** recommend it only takes 5 mins to inflate. Seats are comfortable, kayak handles well. We love it so far!!*
I can't take any more of this awesomeness! You've taken this to a whole new level. Your workmanship is above and beyond professional! Thank you so much for the attention to detail.
+zoffinger we're going to have to hire an actor to receive it upon delivery. I'm pretty I will have a hard time keeping composure! I can imagine future comments: Will someone please silence the fat guy running around in circles screaming! lol
I must say that I have watched several video's on tricking out my kayak but yours is #1. At age 73,you youngman have truly captivated this channel! I am a do it yourself guy who really respects artist when I see them. You have captivated my attention on your skills. Great gob to a GREATER person! Good dementer. GOD Bless you and your attitude!
Marty just wanted to say I got my fishing kayak because of you a week ago. I have been out on the water twice. Thing is it is just so much fun to paddle around and see things I haven't fished much yet. Had no idea how peaceful it could be. Just wanted to say thanks and please keep it going.
glad to see you made it through the storms down your way. once again your diy ingenuity is over the top. patrick is one lucky guy. cant wait to see the finished kayak. taught lines my friend. hope all is well with you.
I guess Im asking the wrong place but does any of you know a method to get back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly lost the login password. I appreciate any tricks you can give me.
@Skyler Elian Thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im in the hacking process atm. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
Thank you for all the DIY videos you make! I love how well you pay attention to detail as well as how well you use a description for making all your own custom fits. Very helpful and I plan to take your advice on making my own custom parts! Keep up the great work!
I once made them for my canoe out of 2 liter soda bottles filled with polyurethane expanding insulating foam and my exoskeleton was aluminium round and square tubing, worked out nicely.
Been watching your videos and learned a lot of little tricks. The way you burned the styro is perfect. Good job! I'm local was out on Ft. Desoto this morning. About to take on a trolling motor project on my Vibe SeaGhost 13. See ya on the water!
Right you need to be sitting in the kayak on the water to get the right depth. After adjusted to the right depth and Without your weight in the kayak the pontoons maybe just above the water line. When you sit in it the pontoons will go down. If they are to deep then the pontoons will be holding all the weight of the kayak most of the time. Also suggestion about hatches in general. If the screws pull through the plastic on the hatch I suggest using pan head bolts with 1/2 NEOPRENE BONDED SEAL WASHERS to cover the entire screw hole for more surface area for the bolt head to grab.
Marty are you sure you weren't MacGyver in a previous life? Your ingenuity never ceases to amaze my friend. Keep it up and don't worry about the long vids. I'm sure I can speak for everyone when I say we love them.
You have some great ‘hack’ ideas for your Yak. I really would like to give Kayak fishing a try , can’t see it happening any day soon though. Not to worry, I’ll just enjoy watching you. Thanks
Great idea! I can also use this idea with the Scotty mounts to attach my trolling motor to the back of my Catch 120. Thanks Marty! I just did a video on my DIY bait bucket using your idea. I picked a perfect time to purchase a Pelican Catch 120.
Love watching the work you do I’m really thinking about getting one for my self I love fishing here in Oklahoma and have been really looking at a lot of kayaks and kayak videos can’t wait to get into my own
awesome trick with the heated wire, I will be doing that for sure my next project, beats my stabilizers I made out of crab pot floats...I think I will remake mine....Great Job
I love all this that you do. I'll probably never get myself a Kayak as its just too big for me to carry round but love this! I was thinking: why not go PVC all the way? You can cut and glue PVC to make it watertight very easily. There are different diameters and you can even get it in sheet format to give the front end a slant so as to make it more hydrodynamic. Give it a try and let us know. Thanks for sharing man!
does it matter how square the Scotty mounts a attached to the kayak since there is so much that can be adjusted before glueing the PVC together? love your channel, ideas & video. keep them coming.
I have a project for you !!! First off , I like your work . Ok , you need to get into remote control cars ! Install motors on the two wheels that carry the cayack . You are going to have to make a third mount , wheel for the front . Good luck !!
hey Marty, I'd say it's time for another Q and A! I've been wondering how you navigate the canals, tides, and waterway on your rafts. I'm looking at moving to Florida and don't wanna get lost! As always thank you for your videos. -Jake
Marty, As I understand it, silicone can cause damage to the material used to make the hull of the kayak. I do know silicone sealer or lubricant can cause damage some plastic (HDP) to develop micro cracks around the margins were the silicone makes contacts with the plastic. Instead it was recommended to use a product called “Lexel” for sealing things that require sealing to HDP plastic. Unsure if you are interested in the Lexel however I thought I would forward the information to you and let you decide. I have a link to a YT channel where someone was using Lexel on a kayak equipment install. If you are interested in the link I would be happy to forward it to you. Regards, Jay…
I would have never thought of using great stuff as an adhesive. I was wondering what you were going to use. Will the Scotty mount be strong enough though?
Marty go to Lowes or Ace Hdw. and check out Well Nuts you do not have to put your hands inside of the yak to attach accessories, also water proof without glue, no mess, I hang my yak from the ceiling with anchor cleats, two screws in each cleat. Like all your ideas.
outrigger attachment points on kayak experience some pretty large force due to leveraging. The stainless steel washers helps to distribute the stress, may still be a good choice.
Great work Marty I love the catch 120 kayak been wanting one since you showed it to us the only thing I don't like is there is no place to mount a transducer where it is safe I don't like the amounts that hang over the side
I loved the way you made your pontoons and especially the stems for the scotty mounts however I have a slight problem: After gluing everything up I found that the bolt that was holding the stem to the short piece of pvc had not tightened enough to prevent the pontoons from rotating out of position. Did you glue the short piece of pvc to the stem and if so what type of glue did you use?
That melting tool was ingenious. You skillfully finessed the radius channels into the two styrofoam halves. Got me thinking that the melting tool itself if it had been a matching diameter, you "might" have been able to melt in single pass. in hindsight, would that have been easier or harder to control?
I love your videos and i have a little cheepo kyack and it has a hole in it... my only resort is a paddleboard and it is very hard to fish on without and attachments! this kyack is probbeby 1.5k dollars and your giving it away!? anyways live the videos and am hoping for a ling fishing video to come out soon. have a nice day marty and good luck on the "living in a boat" dream! 👍🏼
love this channel!! I have a catch 120 and I am pretty new to the kayak game I have been wanting to put some pontoons on my catch but felt like it might be a little over kill. because the kayak is pretty stable already. so is this a little over kill or do you think it's needed for this kayak?
should have used 4 inch light wall pvc and added a large swim noodle and round caps they have alot of boyancy and really rigid i used them on a line boat for dam fishing 300 yards away
Hi Marty, I love your idea of attaching the pontoons with a Scotty mount. I want to do the same on my kayak, but I can't find the stem you used in the locking mount. I went to the Scotty website and couldn't find anything that matched the description of "Scotty Stem." Can you help me with this? Maybe it is called something else on the website?
Zoff...quick question for you or anyone on this board to throw out...I have Wilderness Systems Tarpon 100 Kayaks which have the tracks built in on the front and back. This deters mounting a Scotty mount like yours. Do you guys think a Scotty gear head track mount would hold up to pontoons, or would it rip out of the track due to the pressure of them? Anyone tried this? Thanks.
If I'm correct, the gear heads screw down to the tracks via a single bolt, similar to the way I attached the pvc to the mounts in this video. I think they would bear the weight of the pressure caused by the submerged pontoons, but I wonder if they would pivot under the lateral forces experienced while tracking, which would cause the pontoons to veer right and left instead of up and down like mine? I envision them jackknifing into the kayak, which would possibly cause tracking issues. Perhaps you could simply screw them to the tracks really tight to make that a non-issue? I think it's a cool idea though, Ryan.
Hey, Marty! Great video, but, when are you going to make the next "Quick Boat Update"? That's my favorite series on RU-vid and i'm always excited when I see that pop up on my subscriptions list. I'm just wondering when you'll make the next one, keep up the great work!
Marty, why not just use crab floats instead of all that work with Styrofoam? It's a lot faster. I bought mine online from Austin Kayak for cheap. Still though you do great work. And they come in different colors.
Good video and idea, just some constructive criticism, would be more simple to use PVC pipe with the same diameter as ur styrofoam and just fill the PVC with Sprayfoam and put some end caps on?would work just as well if not better? I say this to cut out all the tedious preps you had to go through to get to the finished product. Please understand I'm not one of those people that Harp on all things that negative, I comment respectfully.
