Re: [Paddlewise] Thief-proofing methods?

On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 2:15:35 PM PST, TomL wrote:

> My wife told me to 1) buy core locks for my Yakima racks, then 2)
> buy a twelve foot cable, run it through the seats and lock it to the
> racks. I trust her advice, but I wanted to ask if anybody else out
> there has additional words of wisdom.

Hi Tom,

I do have the locking cores on my Yakima racks, and I also do this...

I sometimes take both bicycle and boat on my car so that I can do a
day of both riding and paddling. The Yakima bike rack I use does lock
as well, so while I'm paddling, the bike is fine. When I'm cycling, I
put a "Car Club" (the type for a steering wheel) across the cockpit
(behind the seat assembly, across the beam), then I run a heavy duty
bike lock cable around the Club and the crossbar of the rack (inboard
of the towers of course! :-)).

If someone really wanted to steal the boat, they'd have to damage it
by cutting away the fiberglass where the seat attaches to the coaming.

I couldn't find a long enough Club to fit lengthwise on the coaming,
because my Caribou has a pretty long keyhole cockpit.  I would
probably have preferred to do it that way, but the way it is now is
still pretty secure.  The boat I'm building now will have an ocean
cockpit, so I think it should be no problem finding a long enough Club
to go lengthwise in it (a "Truck Club" perhaps).

-- 
Melissa

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