Our first attempt at a luggage rack worked well for several months. Having the rack greatly cleaned up the decks, and the velcro tubing holders worked well in attaching the rack to the console rail.

The dimensions were just about right for width and depth, and we knew going in that we had made the rack too high to fit through the garage door if it were strapped in place. Since the rack was pretty light, we simply left the rack unattached until after we got out of the garage.

The one thing we hadn't anticipated was how much our view was obstructed by stuff in the top rack..duh!, but since we normally run the boat standing up, this wasn't a problem.

The rack managed to survive some fairly rough weather. But in the end, we wound cracking one of the joints. Of course, this meant that the rack was pretty much a loss, since there was no way to permanently repair a cracked PVC joint. We did try gluing the parts back together, but the result did not even make it through a single trip.

With the PVC rack disabled, we decided to build the replacement out of aluminum or stainless steel.