RE: [Paddlewise] not a good morning

Well, no, not to the blade, exactly.  He had it tied to the shaft that comes out of the motor that’s attached to the glass!   Much more secure that way!

 

Yup, just like the people travelling the Washington Beltway with the two mattresses on the roof held down with Ikea filament twine.  (Saw that last night, but it’s par for the course around here.)

 

Joq

 

From: Jim Tynan [mailto:kayakbound_at_yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 12:08 PM
To: 'Jack Martin'; 'Dave Kruger'; 'Paddlewise'
Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] not a good morning

 

You gotta be kidding me! To the rear windshield wiper?!?

 

From: owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net [mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net] On Behalf Of Jack Martin
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 10:31
To: 'Dave Kruger'; 'Paddlewise'
Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] not a good morning

 

Ten years ago, I was carrying my Chesapeake Light Craft kit-built North Bay Greenland-style kayak, heading home from work in my Audi A4 Avant (wagon), equipped with factory-installed roof rails and Thule, store-bought crossbars.  (CLC boats are tough, and this particular kayak made of three millimeter okume plywood, when brand newly built, dropped ten feet from my garage ceiling to the concrete floor; damage was some paint compression and fiberglass loss on the boat and a fairly deep, two inch gouge in the concrete – so this was a pretty tough boat, and was designed with a very pointy bow and stern.  Virtually weapons grade!  When the Ford F350 crashed into me at a stoplight, the seven millimeter nylon prusik line accessory cord being used as a bow tie down (fastened to a transport/towing hook in the bumper) melted with the impact, but held long enough so that the North Bay did not initially come loose and travel back through the windscreen of the Ford and through the idiot-driver’s forehead.  The A4 was toast, having been turned into an A3 hatchback, the driver’s seat was broken off the floor rails, and the impact precipitated an avalanche of plague in my left coronary artery that almost killed me.  But the North Bay is still as pretty as it ever was, and the F350 driver’s life was saved by virtue of bow and stern tie downs.

 

Other than that, no real reason to use tie downs – fastened to structure and not to the rear windscreen wiper that I saw last weekend – except to save lives and kayaks and Prius roofs.

 

Joq Martin

 

From: owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net [mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net] On Behalf Of Dave Kruger
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 11:02 AM
To: Paddlewise
Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] not a good morning

 

Several years ago, Dan Millsip, of West Coast Paddler lost two boats when the factory installed roof rack tracks ripped out of the roof of his minivan,  at speed, outside of Vancouver, BC.  Some damage to boats, no injuries or damage to other vehicles or people despite traffic.  The culprit?  No bow or stern ties.  He reported this on WCP.  Thereupon ensued a raging debate about the need for  bow and stern ties, with about the same content as this discussion.

 

Likewise, I was a passenger eying my buddies' surfboards popsicle sticking through the air after they left the roof of a sedan barreling down Hwy 101, near San Diego, circa 1960.  No injuries to other vehicles or people,  just rail dings and a skegectomy.  They went surfing anyway.

 

List serve filters prevent me from using the pungent language this idiocy deserves:  get the bow and stern anchored with freaking ties, gol darn it!  

 

Good fortune seems rampant in these descriptions, inasmuch no one has reported injuries to people in following vehicles.  Or, maybe ... paddlers whose flying boats decapitated someone, or punched a hole in someone's chest are too shy to speak up ... on the sage advice of their attorneys, of course.  ;)

 

--
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR

 

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