> > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Phares Heindl [mailto:pmheindl_at_afo.net] > > > > I am wondering if there is an alternative to using wheels on > > the beach. > > > > That says I am asking if anyone knows any device to aid in > > carrying the > > kayak other than wheels. Check out the Kayak Yoke by Voyageurs North Productions, tkasten_at_wolv.tds.net or if you have a collection of old Sea Kayaker Magazines, it was written up in the June 1999 on page 58. It is a wooden yoke that locks onto the coaming and has padded shoulder cradles for you to balance the kayak overhead. It is a comfortable carry but the standard size doesn't fit all kayaks. Real nice folks make them and they will work with you on size configurations. Jan *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
You can approximate the concept of a yoke in soft material that will roll up. One basic configuration involves having an adjustable strap that goes around the bottom of the upside down boat which is attached to a padded strap that will rest on your shoulders for portaging with your head slightly in the cockpit area. I got the idea from something that Eric Stiller used with Klepper singles (his father was US distributor for the company and he worked in the NY store). His yoke took advantage of the fact that you could secure just about anything to the coaming because of the groove that ran on the inner side of the coaming. (That groove is meant to hold the hem bead from the tuckunder spraydeck and the spraydeck stayed put when the sponsons were inflated and kayak deck pressed against the spraydeck hem and coaming.) His yoke was made of a piece of hypalon about six to eight inches wide of a length long enough to span the cockpit opening from groove to groove with a bit of give. It was suprisingly comfortable even though not padded. With a hardshell you could replicate Eric's device by using a strap around the bottom of the upside down boat to that padded shoulder yoke portion. I wonder if some of those after market padded backbands might work for the yoke part. They do have straps on each side that are meant to attach the backband to the sides of the seat supports. These could be modified or extended. Another possibility instead of a strap going around the bottom of the upside down boat is to cinch a strap tightly around the perimeter of the coaming where your skirt normally attaches. It would be quite snug and not get loose as might be a problem with a strap around the bottom of the boat. To that strap you would add the flexible yoke, possibly a seatband as described above. The beauty of such an arrangement is that it is quite small to store away and cheap especially if it is possible your backband may already by adaptable to this arrangement and serve double duty as a portage yoke. Anyway, just a thought from the wonderful world of folding kayaks where many paddlers are tinkerers and modification-minded because they are constantly working with parts and pieces of their boats during assembly...the process seems to stir the innovative juices for some reason more so than with hardshells. ralph diaz Eskape Sea Kayaking wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Phares Heindl [mailto:pmheindl_at_afo.net] > > > > > > I am wondering if there is an alternative to using wheels on > > > the beach. > > > > > > That says I am asking if anyone knows any device to aid in > > > carrying the > > > kayak other than wheels. > > Check out the Kayak Yoke by Voyageurs North Productions, > tkasten_at_wolv.tds.net or if you have a collection of old Sea Kayaker > Magazines, it was written up in the June 1999 on page 58. It is a wooden > yoke that locks onto the coaming and has padded shoulder cradles for you to > balance the kayak overhead. It is a comfortable carry but the standard size > doesn't fit all kayaks. Real nice folks make them and they will work with > you on size configurations. > Jan > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
The Wheels I use, with BIG FAT TIRES, is called a Rolleez. http://www.pvcdme.com/9811/wheelchair.html the tire in the photo is: 18.5" X 9" I don't know if someone locally is making the boat caddy with these tires or if the dealer is the wheelchair folks. But I have no problems with the tires sinking into the sand. Robert *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
We commonly drag a dinghy up and down a Cape Cod beach by rolling it over (and over and over and over) a lightweight inflatable log known as a, well, I can't remember what it is called but it resembles an oversized yacht bumper. Somewhat tedious to move the thing every boat length but it saves our backs and the boat's bottom. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
That's a pretty standard way of moving a loaded boat a few yards when beaching or launching. Use a couple of round boat fenders a la the way the Egyptians reportedly used to move the big stones for the pyramids. I am not sure it is a way one would want to move from a car to the water but maybe yes. ralph diaz Richard Frost wrote: > > We commonly drag a dinghy up and down a Cape Cod beach by rolling it over (and > over and over and over) a lightweight inflatable log known as a, well, I can't > remember what it is called but it resembles an oversized yacht bumper. Somewhat > tedious to move the thing every boat length but it saves our backs and the > boat's bottom. > > *************************************************************************** > PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not > to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission > Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net > Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net > Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ > *************************************************************************** -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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