Hello gang, new guy here. Just hooked up and looking forward to bouncing around the mail list since I won't be bouncing around the water a whole lot once the enw little one gets here next Novemeber(yeah!). I know one person out there. Hey Al. I've got a WS Ride sit on top that I bought to fish one. I love it. Much to my wife's consternation ("you can't leave anything alone") I started piddling around in the garage and put a sail on it and made a caddie for it. I'm currently trying to market the caddie, and am having to modify the sail. Some interesting things I've learned include: You cannot get large plastic tires in the US. You seemed to have to go to TAIWAN. Not that I have anything against Taiwan, I'm just not ready to buy in that much buck! Anyone know where to get large plastic tires in the States? Make sure your mast height is enough or you'll bang your paddle into the boom a lot! For a small rig you can use a single line for all the stays on your mast. I epoxied a sail slide to the front of the mast for the forward stay, but ina stroke of luck realized I could run a 1/8" line from the port to the mast, to the foredeck cleat, back to the starboard cleat. Because the small area sail does not have as much stress, I don't have to lock the stays in like I would on a dinghy or catamaran. Th great thing about this is that it allows me to raise and lower the mast very easily. Use a universal joint as the mast base. Man, does it make it easy. Have cleavis (sp?) pin will travel. Adios. -- Dell *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 10:34 AM 7/13/99 -0700, Dell Moore <milo_357_at_yahoo.com> wrote: SNIP > >You cannot get large plastic tires in the US. You seemed to have to go >to TAIWAN. Not that I have anything against Taiwan, I'm just not ready >to buy in that much buck! Anyone know where to get large plastic tires >in the States? > SNIP Watch the trash for a variation on the kid's tricycle that used to be known as "Hot Wheels". They have a pair of nice, wide plastic wheels on the back. Because the pedals on the front wheel are fixed, it's easy to wear a flat spot on the front wheel and then many people throw these out. The rear wheels, meantime, are just fine. Good on the sand (although they annoy the neighbors when you're wheeling through the neighborhood). Good luck. Bill *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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