Our Dogfish rod rack was made with the consumer in mind and not the retailer. One of the most annoying thing about rod racks are that they never hold what is advertised. They always put the rod spacing so close that you can't fit rod and reel right next to each other forcing you skip over spaces. We made ours to hold 16 rod and reels no problem. It constructed of 1/2" poly board so there is never any wory of the rack rotting when putting wet rods and reels back on it.