Dave here trying the outdoors got a great video you know I pretty much today I want to show you guys how to make a canopy for your boat and this is pretty straightforward and simple it's really inexpensive you know comparison to the the ones you normally pay for from the store probably be like $200 it can be up from there depending on the type of style of your boat but with this you may use it with PVC and about $10 worth of boat nuts-and-bolts maybe 15 and you're good to go so I'm going to go ahead and show you that now alright basically to start off they have the boat and this is how the boat is made so to show you how you know you want it to be attached to the boat is it will basically be set off of a swivel point and this swivel point I pretty much took two angle brackets and you know I've set them in such an angle as to the way that I could bolt them down to the boat so it bolts down through the boat and it has one bolt that goes through the actual PVC pipe itself it's one-inch PVC pipe see there it is one inch PVC pipe and has a quarter inch quarter inch bolt going through it and that's probably inch and a half two inches two inches wide so I say about inch and a half two inches wide by longboat just quarter inch and it has a watch or washer on each side and then on the inside of the boat it bolts down straighten out the angle bracket and flatten that out so it will actually just be straight to to the boat and the bolts inside the D the gunner so pretty cool that way that's the anchor system now once you come up you know part ways through it there is a angle bracket that goes there now I took a two inch angle bracket and I've straightened that out drill the hole size to a quarter-inch got my same bolts as I said before quarter-inch bolt goes through the the the second supporting bracket that for the arm for the canopy itself same thing one inch one inch of PVC pipe and it goes on each side now is it's just basically the same distance on each on each on each bracket drill the hole through attach them now I'm moving on up as you can see I get to the 90 degree angles for the supporting brackets and what I did is I just used a 90 degree elbow and the main thing I did was I glued it okay at first I didn't glue it and when I was driving across the water it came loose so then I glued it and it's still kind of you know vibrating it's still kind of guilt under the heat of the Sun and the vibration so then I went ahead and screwed it in and it's worked since then no problems there the best thing you can use just a little screw it only goes in this about an inch long and it drills into the PVC pipe through both of them doesn't come apart same thing there then 1/2 going across once you get to the middle there is a three-way a three-way here so there's a tea in there and this three weeks over was just a supporting bar for the middle and once again one-inch and that that support beam goes through both of them it's I mean that TT bar is in the both of them and then I just want to hit moving along to the other side once again the screws going in there to hold them on and I have another bracket and as you can see the folds that folds down now one main thing I do is always go ahead and strap my shop my tarp down on once I'm in motion you're moving the bolt or anything like that just make sure that the flap doesn't go anywhere on the other side that's the same way the quarter-inch bracket but what what you want to do to save you time is to measure measure from where your motorhead remoter is measure from there and then you can make you can make the make the make the tarp itself and then lay it down on the bottom of the boat now when you lay the end the longest pipe along this pipe right here if you lay that down at the end of your boat I'll save you time and then it will fold down flat to the book on what I didn't do was I didn't measure that I was making it as I was going along I had drawings but I was making it as I was going along so my longer pipe actually sits back on my motor I'm okay with that's fine but if you measure it you can lay it down to the end of the boat and that way it start hitting on your motor then then you go ahead and screw in your your anchor point and wherever that lies it may be a little further up depending on where your boat is made it may be a little further up than that but you know that's that's fine but the great thing about it is it's really portable you know and the great thing about it is really portable you know you can it'll block from the Sun all types of things like that so I think it's really great I use it a lot especially on hot days or whatever like that so just try it out make you one and actually maybe give you this last part so all right so now I'm going to show you how to put this up it's pretty easy way it folds up and just going to show you your tips when your measurements it's something that's really simple but if you have a long enough measuring tape it'll be easy let's go all right now basically what I do is you know I take all my strings I have my all my strings measured out and everything so and I just kind of take it and pull it up and it folds right out as you can see folds right out folds up and my measurement I have strings to strings that have anchor points down to the back of the boat and that's the great thing there's another eyelet as you can see right there it ties to an eye that screws in so that way I know that my anchor points are tied down so that's the great thing and all you have to do is have your measurements on angle and what happens is when you're standing in the boat you can measure from the edge of the bow the edge of the gunnel and measure straight up on an angle until the farthest point where you want it to go to the back of you want to cover the back of the boat and then you measure from wherever you want to put it on the angle I usually put it up about a foot and a half to two foot off of the gong for the front bar and then measure straight up on an angle until it means the farthest point of the boat and as you can see this pretty much covers the front seats and you know so anybody sitting in front seat will still be covered from the Sun so it's a great thing and the fabric is breathable that's one main thing you really want to do is have a breathable fabric so you know it you won't catch a lot of air but that support bar just pops up in the middle of that that tee and there so that way it just has a middle submit bar support but I'm going to show you how this folds down and now and I just fold down just like that BAM and I'm ready to go all I have to do is fill my straps on here as I said I strap up my fabric that one straps in there I'm good to go so that's all you need to know that's all you need to do for your measurements and those are the tips that you need you can go ahead and build your own tell me how works out for you have any questions just hit me up join the outdoors you know Dave 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