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Topic: Securing Kayak when camping/traveling  (Read 854 times)

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Scruzfish

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  • Date Registered: Sep 2018
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What do you all do if you are camping or traveling with your Kayak?  Do you have a way of locking it to your truck,  or do you always take it down and put it "inside" somewhere? 


Malibu_Two

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When camping, I usually just leave it on the car or in the campsite and it's fine, but a lock and cable is never a bad idea.
I use two of these on my TI when it's on my car on the street:

https://www.amazon.com/Kryptonite-York-Fahgettaboudit-1415-Chain/dp/B001SMUB7G/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1538583743&sr=8-4&keywords=new+york+lock
May the fish be mighty and the seas be meek...


StuManChu

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I run a chain through a scupper hole and lock it on the D ring on the bottom of my truck.


crash

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Simple bike cable lock will deter the opportunist thief. One saved my kayak a few years back. I use them whenever the kayak is out of sight on my pickup.
"SCIENCE SUCKS" - bmb


TheKeeneroo

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I use a masterlock python cable. They are great.
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward

There's definitely a fish under THIS rock....

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E Kayaker

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Cable lock it to the picnic table it you’re worried about leaving it in camp. I always cable lock it to my truck when it’s in it.
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=42846.msg470404#msg470404

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.  ~John Buchan


 

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