RE: [Paddlewise] locking a kayak to a roof rack See Drawing

You can purchase a "Kayak Club" which is a steel telescoping device that
clamps into the cockpit and locks witha pad lock. The clamps are padded so
there's no scuffing of the coaming.

cya

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From: owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
[mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net]On Behalf Of Gabriel L
Romeu
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 12:24 AM
To: Fred T, CA Kayaker
Cc: mike hilt; PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] locking a kayak to a roof rack See Drawing


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.

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