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From: Michael R Noyes <mnoyes_at_gsinet.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Kayak storage
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 10:21:47 -0400
"ssives_at_erols.com" wrote:

> If you want to talk quick and dirty, I just used some really large eye
> bolts.  You need to measure carefully and hit a stud right in the
> middle.  I screwed mine in very tight (just use something like a
> screwdriver stuch through the eye bolt to get torque to turn it).
>
>    The bolt is so slippery that nylon rope runs easily through it
> without requiring a pulley.  I just loop a rope around the bolt and pull
> it up!
>
>   - Scott

I did that with a bit of a twist.  I used the cam buckle straps with hooks on
them.  Just hook into the eye bolt and tighten the straps, alternating to keep
the boat level.  It also makes it easier to control the boat when you bring it
back down, you just release each cam and lower the boat a little at a time
(again alternating to keep it somewhat level) until it is down.  I just tuck
the extra strap material into the cockpit during storage.

Mike
--
    Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are
visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great
blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a
mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your
passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space.
Mark H Hunt


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