Portable boat-carried rack for water skis and tow ropes

A rack for water skis adapted to be mounted on a boat so that it extends athwart the boat, the rack comprising two transversely spaced, paralleled planar end members having substantially the same size and shape, elongated members connecting the end members to form a unitary structure of fixed length, each end member having a horizontal bottom surface, substantially vertically extending front and rear lower surfaces and inclined front and rear upper surfaces which converge upwardly to an apex substantially at the center of the end member, a plurality of open ended vertical slots formed in each end member and extending downwardly from both of the front and rear inclined upper surfaces thereof, the slots being substantially the same vertical dimension, each slot in one of said end members being transversely aligned with a corresponding slot in the other end member whereby a ski placed on its side edge in any pair of aligned slots will be in relatively, vertically stepped position and relation with respect to skis placed in any other pair of aligned slots in the same front or rear inclined upper surface of the rack, all of the slots being of such a size and configuration that each pair of aligned slots will receive and retain at least one ski positioned on its side edge, each end member having at least two openings extending therethrough adjacent a lower part thereof in a direction normal to the plane of the end member, and an elongated rod-like supporting member positioned in each opening for sliding movement through the opening whereby the end portions of the supporting members, not positioned within the rack between the end members, provide means external to each end member for supporting the rack on corresponding boat parts of various transverse spacings.