Re: [Paddlewise] Locking a kayak to roof racks

From: Larry Koenig <paddlin_at_home.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 21:46:58 -0500
>Here's another option:  Put a stainless steel D-ring on the deck of your
boat,
> right behind the cockpit and on or right next to the center line of the
boat.

I encountered such a system this Spring during some rough water rescue
practice wherein the hull of my water laden boat flexed around just such a
SS U bolt apparatus on the rescuers back deck as we flailed in the waves
trying to effect a t type rescue.  I know my boat should technically not
have been on his back deck but the ocean had it's own ideas which didn't fit
into our plans and my boat's hull suffered the consequences.
Larry Koenig
Baton Rouge,LA

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