Nick Gill wrote: > > my three year old system uses cheap pulleys and shackles and cheap cotton rope from a hardware store. Works fine. > > i effectively have one rope to pull on. I use two extra pulleys fastened to the ceiling/beams in line more or less with the centre of the boat. both the bow and stern ropes run back to, and through, these from their respective pulleys, then down into and through a ring bolt screwed into the wall. THis brings them together so they can be pulled as one, and up goes the boat. For my canoe I do something similar but have spliced the two ropes together so that I only have one rope to pull on but up at the ceiling it splits into two, one for the bow and one for the stern. But I did this forever ago and no longer know how to splice ropes :) -- henry o_, _at_ ------------ [\/ o,/ Henry Davies (`-----/----') <-----</-----> OASIS, Inc. ~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~~~ phone: 248.952.1490 x210 fax: 248.952.1493 email: henry_at_orion-sim.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 06 1999 - 09:57:50 PDT
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