Two weeks ago I finally got my kayak, an Eddyline Night Hawk & there are no words to explain the joy of having your own kayak, especially one you really like. I chuckled at the posts wherein people kept their kayaks in their livingrooms as I tried to get mine in there also. It was a challenge since the front door leads into the width of the livingroom which is shy a few feet of the length of my kayak! But I have it down to a fine art now but look forward to the day when I have a way to safely secure it outside. I have a 96 Pathfinder which has a 97 rack on it so modifications had to be made to accomodate the railriders but I got that figured out. A friend made a wonderful suggestion that I find a way to attach a set of hurly rollers to the back factory bar. I started out in the military fixing cargo planes so figured I could come up with a way to do that. Drilling holes in the bar was a no go since the center of the bar was plastic. But I got those puppies on there & they work like a champ. I put set of wheels on the stern of the kayak as soon as I have it out the front door, roll it to the path, place the bow on the rollers, lift the stern up & it rolls up & onto the saddles like it was an automatic procedure. This gave me the independence to go paddling on a moments notice since I didn't need any help loading/unloading. I took my maiden voyage at Mayfield Lake wherein I was told that one day I would kayak the lake. I couldn't envision it since I was scared to death of the water. But I took some classes, was immediately hooked & a year later I had my kayak & did paddle the lake. There is a lake down the road a bit wherein I can go out whenever I want, it's so great the peace & serenity being out there on the water. I can't wait to get into bigger & better paddles, but for now am content building up my skills. Speaking of such it's a beautiful day so am loading up now & am off. Sandi take time to know the difference between going through the motions of life and being truly alive *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded 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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