On Mon, 08 May 2000 00:23:30 Gabriel L Romeu wrote: >Just pondering on the problem, and this is what I came up with. > >two pipes, as in gas pipes, of diameters which allow one to slide in the >other. size them that they each just fit in the cockpit opening with >one nestled inside the other. extend them (slide out the inner pipe) in >the cockpit from bulkhead to bulkhead and drill a hole passing through >both. thread your difficult-to-cut SS braided cable (or padlock hooked >with swaged cable) through the hole and anchor the cable to a >particularly secure place on you vehicle. > >index it so it is easy to locate the inner hole. >pad the ends of the pipe to cause no damage to the kayak (rubber balls >on the ends perhaps). > >It would be easy to derive a cross shape that spans bulkhead to >bulkhead and beam to beam. > >Just an idea. And an interesting one also. Been there, done that, though I didn't go with a cross shape; bulkhead to bulkhead only worked for me. Seat & cockpit design may or may not make this feasible. Keep this in mind, using square tubing makes aligning the holes way easier. Walking cane tips on the ends of the pipe/tubing work great to protect the boat. Spencer HotBot - Search smarter. http://www.hotbot.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun May 07 2000 - 22:44:42 PDT
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