Before anyone has the chance to tell me that this latest crazy idea won't work, I'll correct myself: this crazy idea won't work. Unless, of course, the folks who make The Club make it with enough reach to handle a 27" steering wheel --- and you don't see a lot of them around any more! So don't try this at home --- or anywhere else, either. There's a better mouse trap and kayak lock out there somewhere! Jack *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com wrote: > Before anyone has the chance to tell me that this latest crazy idea won't work, I'll correct myself: this crazy idea won't work. Unless, of course, the folks who make The Club make it with enough reach to handle a 27" steering wheel --- and you don't see a lot of them around any more! So don't try this at home --- or anywhere else, either. There's a better mouse trap and kayak lock out there somewhere! > > Jack Jack I seem to recall from a rec.boats.paddle thread along these lines that they make (or made) a kayak club. It was made longer to go the length of the cockpit. I do not know if they still make them. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
>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 <<bulkhead to bulkhead >> ! This would be REALLY long in many cases, therefore hard to carry. >It would be easy to derive a cross shape that spans bulkhead to >bulkhead and beam to beam. is this welded into the "t" shape or how do you secure it? We have either seats we can wrap Kriptonite locks through or around the cheek strap where I pulled a seat out. If we didn't have those I might be tempted to do what Jack Martin did and implant a U bold into the deck for the cable. We lost one boat and don't aspire to a second loss. Joan Spinner *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
> > >It would be easy to derive a cross shape that spans bulkhead to > >bulkhead and beam to beam. > is this welded into the "t" shape or how do you secure it? > The way I would do it Joan is weld disks in the center of 2 rods, drill through the centers of each and devise a pivot (peened pin as in a rivet). drill through the disks to insert a chain/cable when they are in the proper position. I retrospect, I could see this be far more efficient shorter and and mounted by forming an X shape between beams under the coaming. This could be sized for a particular boat by off setting the pivot. Hope this makes more sense to you than it does to me, g -- : : Gabriel L Romeu : http://studiofurniture.com furniture from the workshop : http://members.xoom.com/gabrielR life as a tourist, daily journal : http://users.aol.com/romeugp paintings, photographs, etchings, objects *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Joan wrote, "If we didn't have those I might be tempted to do what Jack Martin did and implant a U bold into the deck for the cable." That's notta my U bold --- that's gotta be somebody else's U bold. Maybe it's U bold? Ain't gotta no U bold. Jack *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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