Good the masts, sails, boards and booms sorted.
Still need to so something for fins, foils, extensions, wetsuits towels etc.
PS: I tried three times to get those images to orient correctly and no luck
This isn't my van but I was considering doing something like this. So leaving it here for reference. His open sided version definitely uses less width and allows you to get the boards a bit closer together. Sorry about the orientation
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Good the masts, sails, boards and booms sorted.
Still need to so something for fins, foils, extensions, wetsuits towels etc.
PS: I tried three times to get those images to orient correctly and no luck
Looks good, with enough space for a single bed on the right hand side
Plastic stacking containers would be my suggestion, you can get the slide out ones in a frame ,like filing containers
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Good the masts, sails, boards and booms sorted.
Still need to so something for fins, foils, extensions, wetsuits towels etc.
PS: I tried three times to get those images to orient correctly and no luck
Looks good, with enough space for a single bed on the right hand side
Yeah. I opted for being able to walk around and stand in the van over a permanent bed but I plane to build some kind of fold down platform on the right side. Let's see how it turns out
Also what do you all do with harnesses. Just hang em?
Select to expand quotethedoor said..John340 said..thedoor said..
Good the masts, sails, boards and booms sorted.
Still need to so something for fins, foils, extensions, wetsuits towels etc.
PS: I tried three times to get those images to orient correctly and no luck
Looks good, with enough space for a single bed on the right hand side
Yeah. I opted for being able to walk around and stand in the van over a permanent bed but I plane to build some kind of fold down platform on the right side. Let's see how it turns out
Also what do you all do with harnesses. Just hang em?
I put mine in a plastic wet box with my helmet, wetsuit and booties. It's then easy to remove all the wet gear when I get home to hang up to dry.
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Good the masts, sails, boards and booms sorted.
Still need to so something for fins, foils, extensions, wetsuits towels etc.
PS: I tried three times to get those images to orient correctly and no luck
Looks good, with enough space for a single bed on the right hand side
Yeah. I opted for being able to walk around and stand in the van over a permanent bed but I plane to build some kind of fold down platform on the right side. Let's see how it turns out
Also what do you all do with harnesses. Just hang em?
I put mine in a plastic wet box with my helmet, wetsuit and booties. It's then easy to remove all the wet gear when I get home to hang up to dry.
+1. I have room for 4 boards stored on their edge on the the RHS top of the carpeted platform bed. Canvas and clear plastic down the LHS side to catch any drips . My harness, wetsuit etc go onto this into double bagged garbo bags inside a large plastic tub.
Wet sails rest along the plastic with a towel under the ends. My 1st van in 1981 was a rust bucket so I take good care of this one.
Wet boards are stored edge on in zipped bags until I get home and take them out to dry.
For my wet gear like harnesses and wet shirts - Bought a waterproof duffle bag from Kmart $20. Just put an old towel in the bottom 1st to absorb water. bag isn't bulky like boxes etc. Works well.
Consider putting a cargo liner mat at the bottom. You can cut holes for the poles so you can take it out to rinse and dry when necessary. We had not done that in our van, and ended up dying a rusty death. A similar thing happened to the van of a friend who also is on / at the water a lot. And don't forget to rinse the underside of the van when you wash it on a regular basis. We had a bunch of stuck bolts that ended up causing weeks of delay of having the van in the shop. Admittedly, they were very incompetent, but they had seemed to know what they were doing until then...
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Consider putting a cargo liner mat at the bottom. You can cut holes for the poles so you can take it out to rinse and dry when necessary. We had not done that in our van, and ended up dying a rusty death. A similar thing happened to the van of a friend who also is on / at the water a lot. And don't forget to rinse the underside of the van when you wash it on a regular basis. We had a bunch of stuck bolts that ended up causing weeks of delay of having the van in the shop. Admittedly, they were very incompetent, but they had seemed to know what they were doing until then...
How long did it take it to go down from rust?
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Consider putting a cargo liner mat at the bottom. You can cut holes for the poles so you can take it out to rinse and dry when necessary. We had not done that in our van, and ended up dying a rusty death. A similar thing happened to the van of a friend who also is on / at the water a lot. And don't forget to rinse the underside of the van when you wash it on a regular basis. We had a bunch of stuck bolts that ended up causing weeks of delay of having the van in the shop. Admittedly, they were very incompetent, but they had seemed to know what they were doing until then...
I was concerned about sweating under the mat. In my iload I stripped out the existing plastic liner and applied generous coats of a waterproofing paint (heaps of options at Bunnings. I used a Crommelin product). Plastic liner back on, then I have a rubber cargo mat on top of that. Wet stuff comes out of the van after sailing.
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How long did it take it to go down from rust?
The van was 12 years old. Not much rust visible on the outside, and mechanically probably fine to go another 12 years. Screws were rusted in on the underside of the van, and one section next on the inside next to the wheel was rusted through. Van was outside, a few miles from the beach, but on ocean beaches (paved parking lots except on rare trips to SPI or Waquoit Bay) about 150 days per year. There are a lot of older vans at the beach, but they don't show up nearly as often.
