I hose my kayak off while it's still on my Honda. That way they both get rinsed of saltwater and sand. I use saw horses padded with foam for repairs. Also, I hang the kayak in the garage from loops, lenghtwise. It's about waist high, and I can get into the boat for certain types of repair and cleaning. The loops are a three boat set from Perception. I got them about 8 years ago for $45. Barbara At 02:47 AM 4/7/98 GMT, Mark Stirling wrote: >On Tue, 07 Apr 1998 14:15:41 -0400, you wrote: > > >> >>After a day of paddling, I like to put my boat up on some rickety old saw >>horses and hose it down. Occasionally, I will use these same horses to >>perform some repairs or other maintenance on the boat. >> >>I want to build some better, more stable, kinder-to-the-boat, portable >>stands. I have seen what look like a pair of letter X's at my local kayak >>dealer and other stands that look like two uprights connected by a piece of >>fire hose. Both good approaches but perhaps there are others. > > >What I use for maintenance and building are folding x shaped stands >(2) with cloth (in this case 14 oz nylon, but any strong cloth will >do). The X is essentially a pair of ~ four feet long 2 x 3 bolted >in the centre. >How do I stop the x's from falling over? >The end of each strut has an 24 inch cross piece held in place with a >triangular plywood gusset.. Cloth is notched to go around strut and >laced to hoizontal suppport. > Ascii art of one strut below. > ________________________ > |________________________| > \ | | / > \ | | / > | | > | | > | | > | | > ////// | |/////[] 3/8" pivot bolt for x > | | > | | > | | > | | > | | > / | | \ gusset to stiffen > ________/_ | |__\________ > |________________________| > > Ground > > >The cloth is gentle to the boat and the X'x fold flat for storage. > >Cheers! Mark >*************************************************************************** >PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List >Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net >Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net >Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ >*************************************************************************** > > * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * --*--*-- Barbara Kossy Communications vox: 510-234-3479 fax: 510-234-6615 * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- *--* -- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Apr 07 1998 - 23:02:54 PDT
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