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 Post subject: Storage - Kayak Hoist
PostPosted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:32 pm 
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I (like most of us) have two primary issues related to kayak storage. One... limited space. Two... ease of the storage and use of the kayak.

I have made a kayak hoist before and was happy with the use, but it did require carrying the kayak into my garage, setting on saw horses and only with the garage door shut, could I hoist. It was a bit time consuming, but clean out-of-the-way storage.

I moved to a new place, so I re-configured my hoist system and it's simply AWESOME!! (I think :) )

I can drive into the new garage with the boat on the roof, so I wanted to be able to hoist right onto and off the roof rack. My boat length, garage and vehicle height are ideal, so may not work for all. But the concept would work for many applications.

This hoist keeps the boat inverted and places the carrying loads on the cockpit side rails just as though on the truck roof rack. This is ideal.

The Hoist: Two overhead pulleys are attached to heavy duty lag hooks threaded into joists. It's a double line system that has two 3:1 purchase blocks below. It has lines passed through scuppers and a pair of dowel cross members (these could be stronger or be of another material), but this works for my Maui. The hoist lines feed to the wall and then down to a pair of cam cleats. I also tie this off for security.

(Drawing / details at the bottom of the post)

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I pull the line through the scuppers (The tail of line hanging down allows me to easily pass the line down through the scuppers and then pull the loops through) and then pass the cross members through the loops. I have also added two "humps" of tape to mark and keep the dowel centered. No knots to tie... just two cross members passed through the loops.

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I then simply hoist the kayak up off the roof rack. The load is balanced and stable.
The dowels are what I had on hand and could be stronger, but they worked for proof of concept.

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The double line system is easier to rig and allows you to pull the lines down when setting up to hoist and adjust height independent of the opposite end while hoisting. I had these triple blocks, but note that doubles there is all that is needed.

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Boats without single / centered scuppers aft might have to use a beam setup to split the line to both (cart) scuppers.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:51 am 
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Very clever Matt! 8) ...but where's the miragedrive kayak??? :lol:


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:33 am 
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We have a yard full of Mirage demos at the factory. I like my Maui for surfing! :)

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:22 pm 
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The pulley system looks excellent, but the dowels look insufficiently strong. You can see them bending in the pictures, and because they're wood, they can easily fracture along grain lines. If one of the dowels breaks, that end of the kayak will drop, the other end will swing up and hit the ceiling, and the leverage will break the other dowel. You don't want to be under a kayak when it falls. I speak from a similar experience, as I had a hardware store pulley fail, and the kayak hit me a glancing blow as that end of the kayak fell. Then the leverage straightened out a pretty thick eye-screw in the joist at the other end of the kayak, and the whole kayak came crashing down. So I encourage you to replace the dowels with something considerably stronger.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 4:47 pm 
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Yep!

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The dowels are what I had on hand and could be stronger, but they worked for proof of concept.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:53 pm 
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Nice post.... Thanks Matt!

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:27 am 
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I like my Maui for surfing! :)


The Maui is a blast to surf! (This is a few years ago and an older Maui I had).

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