Joy E. Hecht wrote: > > You may want to find a way to run the cable into your car and close (and > lock) the car door on it - with the cable lock in the car. Otherwise you > are vulnerable to someone simply removing your racks from your car. > > I was at REI the other day replacing a part of my Yakima rack, and talked > for a while to someone there who installs them on cars. He said he'd > seen one stolen right off a car, notwithstanding that it had the little > lock Yakima sells for those racks. So don't count on those locks. > > And running the cable into the car, so the boat can't get taken even if > someone tried to take off your racks, might be a good idea. > I second that, I mean the vulnerability of the locks used to lock roofracks. I had the rear one of my Thule bars taken from my car (why one? I don't know) and it was the locking variety. Boulter of Earth sells something call the SureLock, which is a cable that works in various ways. But one feature on it is a sliding ball type device (really conically shaped) that you hang inside your car throuugh your door. You close the door and slide the device on the cable until it snugs up against the inside of the closed door. As an aside. I didn't even notice that I did not have the rear rack until I went to put my Klepper Aerius I and two K-Lights brought by Doug Simpson, owner of Feathercraft, up on the roof. The mini-van has a built in roofrack; so I was a bit confused. We were in a hurry and it was a day in the 20's, so we just rushed to tie all three boats up there to go for a harbor paddle. On our return, we decided to knock down the boats on Broadway on the Upper West Side. As I knocked down the Klepper, a wooden stringer came apart in my hand. (It had obviously split because the boat had been cinched down hard against the bare built in rack without padding or cradle.) Doug looked over at me and dryly said "Does that happen often, Ralph?" Wouldn't you know it, the only time a wooden part ever broke on me was around the head of Feathercraft!!! ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Sep 28 1998 - 11:51:26 PDT
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