Re: [Paddlewise] Cheap Racks - Surelock cables

From: <AndyTKnapp_at_cs.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 02:32:43 EDT
In a message dated 10/26/1999 1:47:32 PM Central Daylight Time, 
Sandykayak_at_aol.com writes:

> FWIW, a local outfitter advised me to put a padlock on the Surelock.  Can't 
>  remember exactly why, but a padlock I bought.
>  
>  Sandy Kramer
>  

I also often use a Surelock cable system, and I usually padlock the loop 
inside the car door to a convenient metal loop on the frame that's part of 
the rear seat belt system. That way, if someone breaks into the car, they 
can't then detach the Surelock setup (unless they have a good cable cutter). 
In addition, I sometimes use a second cable lock running from the kayak seat 
to one of the Yakima bars.

Nothing is totally safe, but the name of the game is to make your boat harder 
to swipe than the next poor guy's, who didn't go to all the trouble. It's 
like that joke I think we had a while back to the effect that you don't have 
to be able to paddle faster than a polar bear can swim, you just have to be 
able to paddle faster than the others in your party.

-Andy Knapp
Minneapolis
No polar bear weather yet.

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