Karen Hancock asked about storage pulleys Check out Bicycling Magazine's bike holders _ Pictured on their website. http://www.performancebike.com/profile.html?sku=2268 click for a larger image... A complete pulley system mounted on the ceiling with two descending (padded)hooks. One could cut an old flat nylon webbed tow cable in half, create two stirrups for the boat. Connect the two hooks, pull the line, raise 'em up and tie them off to the side. 55lb load limit. - Strong enough to handle most boats. NOTE: I don't want to get into another ideal boat weight argument. It's on sale for about $38 and your old tow rope probably needed to be replaced anyway. You could copy the design, but I would bet the instructional manual/plans are what would be the most valuable. Or ask someone in a Physics class at the local university, they are always constructing crazy devices out of pulleys/levers etc. Also, If your boat is heavier than 50 lbs. I would look at bumping up the strength of the pulleys, perhaps by making one yourself from parts found at a hardware store. - Note Fleet Farm sells quality rope cheap. It's just like the climbing stuff, but not trustworthy enough for human life. I don't work there but thanks anyway. Good luck, Phil Huck thekayaker_at_yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
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