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Re: PLEASE help me
By:Jack Martin
Date: 9/12/2000, 11:56 am
In Response To: PLEASE help me (Benita Kingsbury)

: I am meant to be designing a kayak trailer as part of my A-Level design
: project, but am not quite sure if thats the best idea now. I also thought
: of a storage trailer or a cart of some kind. I am finding it very
: difficult getting any helpful research on products already being produced.

Benita, I'm not sure if we're helping you to design an "eighteen wheeler" --- an articulated lorrie? --- when you're looking for a really good wheel barrow. If you're interested in carts --- meant for portaging a kayak, or just walking it from the car to the beach --- there are a lot of good designs out there.

For a start, go to *http://www.clcboats.com*, and take a look at their design for a simple folding kayak cart; go to Shop Tips, then the Fitting Out section, and look at their design for a "yak cart".

Commercial carts are available through 'most any search engine; as a try, I went to *http://www.go.com*, plugged in "kayak carts", and the first 10 or 12 hits were good for commercially available hand powered kayak transportation systems.

Not sure what the equivalent of an "A-level" is in the States, but if you weren't planning a ventilated, articulated, bifurcated and much anticipated super-trailer, then maybe the above info would also work.

Jack Martin

Messages In This Thread

PLEASE help me
Benita Kingsbury -- 9/12/2000, 6:34 am
better shot
Philip Miles. -- 9/16/2000, 4:18 am
I have a trailer *Pic*
Philip Miles, Walton-In-Gordano, N.Somerset. -- 9/15/2000, 6:10 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Brian Wegener -- 9/13/2000, 10:38 am
Bike trailers
Brian Nystrom -- 9/14/2000, 3:27 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
John Waddington -- 9/12/2000, 3:48 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Porter -- 9/12/2000, 1:13 pm
Real wheels
Dale Frolander -- 9/12/2000, 12:24 pm
Re: Real wheels
Don -- 9/12/2000, 5:00 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Jack Martin -- 9/12/2000, 11:56 am
Re: PLEASE help me
Kent LeBoutillier -- 9/12/2000, 11:41 am
Iron costs
Don -- 9/12/2000, 5:01 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Kent LeBoutillier -- 9/12/2000, 10:52 am
Re: PLEASE help me
tom kurth -- 9/12/2000, 8:29 pm
Re: BYOT
Shawn B -- 9/12/2000, 4:13 pm
things that I would look for in a boat trailer
Jason -- 9/12/2000, 9:56 am
Re: things that I would look for in a boat trailer
Don Beale -- 9/12/2000, 10:11 am
Re: PLEASE help me
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/12/2000, 9:14 am
Re: PLEASE help me
Ross Leidy -- 9/12/2000, 9:22 am