racks

swchandler · Joined: 08 Nov 1993 Posts: 10588

If you have the height, upright with the rail up against the wall and supported by doweling coming off the wall. Add some line or bungie cord to hold them in place. Most surfboard shops use this storage concept to maximize the number of boards in the space allowed, and each board is individually accessible without the need for stairs or ladders.

dcharlton · Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 414

Home Depot, get two large Storage Hooks (see below). Find the studs in the garage. You'll get better space as opposed to building a shelf and laying the board flat. Works great.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/275986283387564295/

rhorton1 · Joined: 19 Aug 2010 Posts: 88

If you have a few hours and some basic woodworking tools, you can fashion yourself a big, burly rack. Less than $50 of materials (1x6, 1x4, and 2x2 lumber), and it stores all my boards, sails, and masts. I've got easily 120lbs of gear loaded on that, and its solid as a rock. Screwed a piece of webbing from the rack to a wall stud as earthquake protection.

LUCARO · Joined: 07 Dec 1997 Posts: 661

Hey iso:

How did you know i was a rack guy?

Love rhortons rack. Seems much easier to biuld than my method using 4x4s, and drilling holes for dowel rods.

Anyways, here are my conclusions from the racks i have made (these would be obvious to most but i had to learn from experience).

The key variables include spacing of the boards and the angle of the "board holding arms".

Diagonal angle minimizes how far the boards will stick out but decreases the space between the holding arms. Meaning you will get less boards on your rack if you use diagonal arms. Also diagonal arms make it a little harder to get large boards on and off the rack.

For a vertical rack with boards standing on their tails, aligning the arms at an acute angle to the wall means the boards sick or less from the wall and you can leave the fins on the boards. I saw a rack the head about 35 degree angle that worked quite well.

8 inch spacing works petty good if you have your straps large.

I have 3 racks. The 2 outdoor ones are free standing and the indoor one is attached to the studs in my garage.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

U2U2U2 · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:34 pm Post subject:

after reading the title here, I was anticipating some other geography

those that are excited by board storage, dont get out much do ya ?