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Re: Storing kayaks overhead?
By:Gary
Date: 10/28/1999, 1:44 pm
In Response To: Re: Storing kayaks overhead? (Mike Plumer)

> Gary, this seems simple enough, but a little risky. What if you (or your
> kid) uncleats one end and lowers it without the other? Doesn't this invite
> the boat to slide nose-first out of the sling and crash onto the floor? Do
> you have a way of ensuring that the sling ropes work together? Also, it
> seems that if you put the boat in the sling when the loop is extended to
> its maximum size and then pull the rope through a pulley on one side only,
> the boat must then keep sliding toward the fixed side of the sling as you
> take it up (or in reality, the rope keeps sliding under the boat toward
> the pulley side as you raise it). Is this a problem (abrasion, or even
> rolling the boat over in the process of raising it)? Mike

I guess I wasn't clear. I put the "s" hook on the end of the rope and hook it to the carry handle. As far as dropping one end- sue could happen but what couldn't happen? Gary

Messages In This Thread

Storing kayaks overhead?
Mike Plumer -- 10/28/1999, 2:03 am
Re: Storing kayaks overhead?
john -- 11/3/1999, 4:40 pm
Re: Storing kayaks overhead?
Nolan -- 10/28/1999, 2:28 pm
Re: Storing kayaks overhead?
addison m. -- 10/28/1999, 12:28 pm
Re: Storing kayaks overhead?
Hank -- 10/28/1999, 11:51 am
Re: Storing kayaks overhead?
Mike Plumer -- 10/28/1999, 11:49 am
Re: synchronous pulley rig
Ross Miller -- 10/28/1999, 7:49 pm
Re: synchronous pulley rig
Don Beale -- 10/28/1999, 8:09 pm
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Chris Arceneaux -- 10/28/1999, 10:01 pm
Re: Storing kayaks overhead?
Gary -- 10/28/1999, 1:44 pm
Re: Storing kayaks overhead?
Mike Plumer -- 10/28/1999, 11:48 am
Re: Storing kayaks overhead?
Gary -- 10/28/1999, 11:02 am
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Ian Johnston -- 10/28/1999, 2:17 am