[Paddlewise] Pulley systems and boat stress

An easy way to strap up a canoe or kayak on a garage pulley system is to
use old car tire inner tubes.  I've had success with tying the pulley ropes
to the innner tubes, and sliding them over the boat bow and stern.  The
inner tubes can also serve double duty as canoe or kayak flotation, when
needed.

Why make more work for yourself?  Life's too short!

Tina
Portland, OR


>One question that occurs to me regarding the clever ways people store their
>kayaks using pulley systems:
>
>Given that the fiberglass used for most boats is fairly thin, wouldn't the
>shape
>of the fiberglass eventually get distorted after months of storage (or less),
>where the weight of the boat is supported by just two perhaps 1 inch-wide
>straps?  I'm thinking of using such a system, but my thought was to make a
>couple of saddles using rectangular strips of canvas, each measuring perhaps a
>foot wide and maybe 5 or 6 feet long.  I would fasten each end of the canvas
>strips around a one foot long steel rod, then tie a rope to the center of each
>rod.  Then the kayak would sit on nice one-foot wide supports.  Does this
>sound
>like overkill?
>
>Evan
>Woodinville, WA
>


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