Tomorrow at 6:00 am I leave for a week of paddling on the North Carolina coast. Most of our camping will be on sand. It just dawned on me that my standard, thin tent stakes won't hold well. I don't have time to get to a store much less order from a website/catalog. Can any of you really wise paddlers suggest something I can manufacture from materials I already have around the house that I can use as sand stakes? What if I took plastic grocery bags, filled them with sand and buried them. Would that work? Brian "Day late, dollar short" Blankinship *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
----- Original Message ----- From: <Blankibr_at_aol.com> > Can any of you really wise paddlers suggest something I can manufacture from > materials I already have around the house that I can use as sand stakes? Brian, That would probably work. You can also take some 4" square pieces of thin plywood, drill 2 holes in them to pass the line through and just bury them. BTW, I use the sand stakes from Campmor--look like little parachutes and they work well. Easier to pack than plywood and not too expensive. Good luck, Steve Holtzman Leaving now for the Southwest Kayak Symposium!! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Get some handkerchiefs (or steal one from your dog) and tie the corners together with parachute cord with a loop in the center (like a parachute). Then dig a hole. Bury them "flat" and they should hold. Cya *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
----- Original Message ----- From: <Blankibr_at_aol.com> To: <Members_at_cpakayaker.com>; <paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: [Paddlewise] Sand Stakes > Tomorrow at 6:00 am I leave for a week of paddling on the North Carolina > coast. Most of our camping will be on sand. It just dawned on me that my > standard, thin tent stakes won't hold well. I don't have time to get to a store much > less order from a website/catalog. To manufacture something quick, look around the house for any thing flat and sturdy about the size of a pie plate or book. Punch a hole through the middle and run a line through it an make a fat knot on the other side. Shovel out a hole at least 18 inches deep or until you hit and go through a few inches of wet sand. Bury that flat object with its greatest surface perpendicular to the pull of the line. You could also use soda bottles filled with water to give them rigidity and tie a line around each bottle. Again bury with the greatest surface against the pull of the line. However, I think that any amount of walking along a beach will find driftwood and other flotsam that could be used in the same way as above. You could pretty much count on it and just have a few things from home to round out what you find on the beach. I would suggest, in fact, don't bring anything from home except lots of line and a shovel (even those orange plastic ones from camping stores work well if you have any (I have one with every tent I own). Not bringing anything will force you to beach comb and there is nothing quite like it. Not only do you find the most interesting things but walking along the shoreline is a good way to enjoy the sea and that transitional zone through which some early form of life emerged to become creatures of the land. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 1365, Highland, NY 12528 Tel: 845-255-7742; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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