BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - lifting a wilderness system ride kayak up over my balcony.

On 8/19/04 10:54 PM, in article
, "mike"
wrote:

I live in a house and I want to lift my kayak up on my balcony. How
do I do this? I imagine its done with pulleys to lift the kayak and
you have someone stand on the balcony and when the kayak gets there
they hoist it over the rail. How do you arrange the pulleys? thanks
Mike D

Pulley systems are really pretty simple. A two or three pulley system would
give you more than enough mechanical advantage to lift something as light as
a kayak. Just go to a hardware store and purchase the double or triple
pulleys and plenty of rope. The principle is that you attach the top pulley
to a solid support then hang your load (your kayak) from the bottom pulley
and simply pull the bottom pulley up to the top pulley. You would also, of
course, have to make a sling out of rope or webbing go around the ends of
the kayak. I would think that the toughest decision for you would be where
to attach your top pulley. Ideally you would need to construct a bracket or
attachment point that is somewhat higher than the balcony. If you only
raise the kayak up to balcony level then you are still going to have to
muscle is over!
Chuck