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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
By:ancient kayaker
Date: 7/26/2011, 7:20 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi (Mike Bielski)

: . . . The most likely cause was reducing the size of some of the
: pieces. ... The next most likely cause was probably poor material . . .

There's another explanation. Which way up was your boat? Boats are designed to carry a load in the middle. If you mount it on a car rightside-up as so many folk do then and tie it down at the ends then all the loads on the boat are reversed. Even if the boat survives, this treatment can cause hogging.

I always mount my boats upside down; they don't need covering that way, a frame shaped to fit the top of the boat is simple enough to make and the straps go over the boat midships where it is strongest.

I do put a safety line down from each stem to the car but that's so I can see if the boat moves; it's an early warning system but it will also keep the boat with the car if it does come loose, preventing it from causing an accident to a following vehicle, and there is not much tension in those lines.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
frankp -- 7/20/2011, 7:39 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
Bill Hamm -- 7/20/2011, 8:04 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
frankp -- 7/27/2011, 8:18 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 7/20/2011, 8:20 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
Dave Gentry -- 7/20/2011, 8:24 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
Bill Hamm -- 7/20/2011, 8:46 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
Mike Bielski -- 7/20/2011, 12:42 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
ancient kayaker -- 7/26/2011, 7:20 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
frankp -- 7/27/2011, 8:10 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
frankp -- 7/27/2011, 8:05 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
B. Hamm -- 7/30/2011, 3:20 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
Noel Bennett -- 7/20/2011, 5:04 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Death of a Nikumi
frankp -- 7/27/2011, 8:12 am