On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Debora A. Nicoll wrote: > We wish to store our two kayaks and canoe in the garage using pulleys and > slings. Any suggestions on how to set this up? Hopefully you have exposed rafters, it makes this easier. My favorite slings are lap seat belts from a junked car. I bolt them to the rafters. Alternatively on one end of the boat you could simply use a section of webbing. I like using the lap belts because the webbing is stronger than you'll ever need and the clasps are easy to latch with one hand. I've currently got 4 canoes suspended with seat belt slings. We used to have a pulley system for our green monster canoe (it weighed about 90 pounds). We used 2 lines in parallel for the pulley system. On thinking about it we used too many pulleys ;-). The pulley system was basically a pulley above each end of the boat, with an S hook that you could attach to the deck plate or grab loop of a boat. We used a double barrel pulley above the near end of the boat and a cleat to tie off the rope. In the simplified system you only need 2 pulleys, for some reason we had pulley attached to each S hooks too. If you use a pulley system be sure you have a solid attachment on the boat to use for hoisting. Also use some back up system, like a sling system to take the weight off the hoisting points once the boat is up to the rafters. Initially we didn't use a sling system and one day the pulley attachment tore from the boat and the canoe fell to the floor. kirk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jul 01 1999 - 07:53:25 PDT
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