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Re: Loop de'Loop or Hold onto Your Yak!!
By:Rehd
Date: 7/22/2001, 10:27 pm
In Response To: Re: Loop de'Loop or Hold onto Your Yak!! (Julie Kanarr)

: I'd vote for this idea -- and then you can create your handhold by running a
: loop of tubular webbing or nylon line through the screw eye.....1 inch
: tubular webbing is comfortable to hold.... or make a wooden toggle. I made
: some wooden toggles by taking a Very Large (1 inch? it was the biggest I
: could find at the hardware store) diameter wooden dowel, cutting it to
: hand-width & rounding off the edges and drilling a hole through the
: middle--the "short way", and then coating it with epoxy, and
: threading the nylon line through the toggle and tying it off at the
: hole-in-the-boat (in your case, the screw eye, in my case, a hole drilled
: through the end pour.) They're comfortable-- I've got toggles on one boat
: and tubular webbing on the other, and both solutions are easy on the hand.
: I got multiple toggles from one dowel.

: I've done the lift-&-carry with both of these and in neither case did I have
: that uncomfortable "the rope is cutting into my hand, I've gotta set
: my end down NOW" feeling." Flat webbing is not comfortable,
: tubular webbing is.

: Julie Kanarr

Good Idea Julie! It just so happens that I have a length of 1 1/4" closet pole in the closet that I'm remodeling and will only be putting half of it back in. I think that will solve both problems sufficiently. :)

O.K., back to work. Putting floors in the cockpit now and will ( hopefully ) skin it tonight. Although tonight is here already!! Oh well, there's always.......... Tuesday!! :) Thanks again!!

Rehd

Messages In This Thread

Loop de'Loop or Hold onto Your Yak!!
Rehd -- 7/22/2001, 9:28 pm
My 2 cents'
Pete Roszyk -- 7/24/2001, 2:22 pm
Re: My 2 cents'
Rehd -- 7/24/2001, 4:34 pm
Re: My 2 cents'
Bill Price -- 7/24/2001, 4:23 pm
and my additional penny's worth
Julie Kanarr -- 7/24/2001, 5:48 pm
Re: and my additional penny's worth
scotty -- 7/25/2001, 9:39 am
Re: and my additional penny's worth
Julie Kanarr -- 7/25/2001, 11:22 am
Re: and my additional penny's worth
John Monfoe -- 7/28/2001, 5:13 am
Garage?
Bill Price -- 7/25/2001, 1:25 pm
The basement is for boatbuilding
Julie Kanarr -- 7/25/2001, 2:10 pm
Re: Loop de'Loop or Hold onto Your Yak!!
John Monfoe -- 7/23/2001, 3:55 am
The traditional bow
Paul G. Jacobson -- 7/23/2001, 2:54 am
Webbing *Pic*
Bill Price -- 7/23/2001, 12:30 am
Re: Webbing
Rehd -- 7/23/2001, 1:59 am
Re: Webbing
Bill Price -- 7/23/2001, 12:44 pm
Re: Loop de'Loop or Hold onto Your Yak!! *Pic*
Chip Sandresky -- 7/23/2001, 12:17 am
Re: Loop de'Loop or Hold onto Your Yak!!
Julie Kanarr -- 7/22/2001, 9:50 pm
Re: Loop de'Loop or Hold onto Your Yak!!
Rehd -- 7/22/2001, 10:27 pm
Re: Loop de'Loop or Hold onto Your Yak!!
Julie Kanarr -- 7/22/2001, 10:51 pm
Re: Loop de'Loop or Hold onto Your Yak!!
Rehd -- 7/23/2001, 12:00 am