Little Home Projects (LHP) first video showing how I hung my canoe in my carport garage. Using a reduction pulley hoist system the canoe or kayak can be loaded or unloaded from the car with only one person.
great job! I really enjoyed the fact that you narrated the video instead of keeping the audio from the camera feed. Thanks for the time and effort. SOLID
Nice, I did something similar for my 4 Old Town Dirago kayaks and 16 foot canoe. I made the canoe support fit an exact place on the gunwales, the yaks are supported from nylon straps attached to 2x2s. A pulley with a double line pull at each end runs through pulleys and each rope is directed and attached to a hand winch to crank that particular boat up to the garage ceiling or down onto a car or my homemade rack for my homemade trailer. The hand winch makes lifting the yaks and especially the canoe literally effortless and will lock in place and a safety strap keeps them secure and out of the way until wanted. As far as the wheeled carrier, I would take a stout bungee cord attached to each side of that seat and the other attached to the axle with the wheels towards the front of the canoe (like you have it at the 48 second mark). That would put the stress onto the bungee and the wheel will simply follow. The bungee should be strong and run around the front of that seat.
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I don't have any experience with the trailers but, since you have a couple of them, you may want to try putting one on either end of the canoe and use your roof strap to rachet the two axles together. Just an idea...
My canoe is about 80lbs, But I think the stress on the hanging bolts ends up being more when you are pulling the canoe up. I'm not sure how the math works on that kind of thing. I would always recommend going up a size from what you think will be good enough. Thanks for the question. :)
This is not really a solution, more like half a solution, at best. And I don't even know if it will work. At the 50 second point, you have the apparatus in an arrangement that SHOULD work if you were pushing the canoe, rather than pulling. The apparatus would be "cammed" under the canoe, I would think. The harder you push, the more tightly the apparatus is "gripping" the canoe. Don't know if it will work, but might be worth trying.
