Ky Stratton wrote: > > I'm hoping that one of you fellow kayakers out there can help me. > I just moved and need to store (2) kayaks above the cars in the garage. > Does anyone know of a, hopefully not to expensive, pulley/sling system > that is on the market or have plans that one can build. Any and all help > would be appreciated. The kayaks are 16' and 14' w/a 28" beam. Yaks are so light you probably can get away without pulleys. For each yak: Sink mongo screw eyes into adjacent ceiling joists (joist separation should resemble the width of the yak), two at the end of each yak. For the 14 footer, you want about an 8 foot separation, and for the 16 footer, about 10 feet. Anchor one end of a SOFT LAY 3/8 inch line to one of the screw eyes and run the free end through the other screw eye [front of yak]. Repeat for the stern. Lay yak in the loops thus formed. Pull on the free ends of the lines, and voila! . . . yaklevitation! [Tie free ends to somethings immovable.] To figure the length of line, measure the ceiling joist-floor distance and multiply by three *for each line.* SOFT LAY line is stuff which is supple, not stiff. They have lots of this at marine supply outlets. If the friction in the described setup annoys you, get one pulley for each line and attach to the screw eye the free end of the line goes through. Move line to the pulley. Now you have *frictionless* yaklevitation! -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Oct 29 1998 - 07:39:40 PST
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