Wheeleez Kayak/Canoe Cart

How many guys use this cart?

Im thinking about getting it, does it hold up well?

I love the balloon tires on the other beach carts, but don't want to fill up my boat with all that.

I like the fact this one is much smaller, question is will it hold up?

You'll wish you had the ones with balloon tires!!!!! Trust me, its worth walking the other one back to you car after you launch.

if you are going to be doing a lot of beach launches, i would get the baloon tires, this is a good cart but will dig into the sand on long hauls, other than that i have been happy with it, cameron

You'll wish you had the ones with balloon tires!!!!! Trust me, its worth walking the other one back to you car after you launch.

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There are many threads on this issue, but the bottom line is that many of us have learned the hard way that anything less than the wheeleez w/balloon tires ultimately ends in frustration and extra $$$ out of your pocket. It isn't just sand that they work better on, it's also rough terrain, mud, and any surface other than a paved sidewalk. Walking the cart back to your truck is a small price to pay for the convenience of these wheels in nearly every other situation.

That was my first cart. That is a great cart...if you only plan on using it on asphalt and concrete.
It rarely gets used at all since I got the one with the balloon tires.
This is definitely something you don't want to cheap out on.
It's only been said a bazillion times on this board......the balloon tires are the way to go.

Hmmmmm...

How much space will they take up in my T13? Will i still be able to get my rods inside there?
 So the ballon are good on pavement too I assume.

I will be doing countless fishing trips in capitola this year as i live right up the road from the water there. Usually i drive my stuff down, unload, then you have to go up the hill and find parking, then walk back down. After fishing I have to do the same, but its BUSY AS HELL in the summer time in that little tiny lot. I was hoping I could just put my yak on the cart and walk it down the hill, and then back up the hill when Im done.

Do the balloons do that well on a hard flat surface?

Also am i kidding myself by truing to pull my yak back up the hill, again never used wheels. Last year I cariied my stuff everywhere, that got old!

The balloon tires work on any surface, including flat paved surfaces.
I can pull my p15 fully loaded up a boat dock with the tires no problem, but I cannot store my entire cart inside the hull. When I use a launch ramp I wheel my fully loaded boat down, pull it off the cart, then beach my boat out of the way next to the ramp while I return the wheels to my truck. I almost always put my wheels back in my truck, but occasionally I'll just carry them in my tankwell if I don't have anything else back there.

yeah you can strap the cart and wheels across the tankwell. With a few bungees its rock solid.

or lock them to a fence or tree or?

EWB, how did you do at the perch derby?

Im a little hesitant to tie them to the tank well as i use the space and am really trying to thin out what gear i do have on the water, also how would this hold up in a sirf wreck, or if i flipped my boat OTW, would the boat be hard to flip back over?

Thanks for all the great feedback!

does this mini do the job?

Looks like the wheels on all these carts detach quickly, correct?

No ! Dont get those . You'll end up wanting  the better ones so get the big wheels and you wont need anything else .. Thats as far as wheels go .. Theres always more stuff to get . My 0.05 worth .

yeah, looks like its the big balloons... maybe i can fit all the wheels and my rods inside the yak.. we shall see

does this mini do the job?

Looks like the wheels on all these carts detach quickly, correct?

I bought the mini originally to try and save money. It does not work with SOT kayaks. It's just too small. So I had to buy the large cart and was out the $100+ I had already spent on the mini.

Porky,

You and I have the same "commute" down to the beach...I had a skinny wheeled cart for a year or so, and it worked fine as long as I didn't go on the sand, then it would just bog down.

I got the big balloon ones last year and they rock. They work fine for the walk on the streets and then do great going down the slope to the beach...also have no big problem with pulling it back up, even with the condition that part next to the pier is right now.

I have been using a cable-lock to lock the wheels to the pier pylons or the stairs...yesterday I went out in the AM to try and get some crabs for lunch (no luck) and when I went to lock the wheels up the cable lock broke (too mcuh saltwater abuse I guess)...I ended up strapping them on behind the cooler that sits in my tank well...once I had them strapped on correctly (with wheels up and not laying in the water) it didn't take up any space that I usually would have used.

Now, if I had ate it coming back in would it have jacked up the wheels??? Maybe...probably....I am going to get another cable lock and go back to locking them at the base of the pier...Unless we are doing a wharf to wharf (or if I am using the floating dock).

Let me know if you have questions or want to try mine out...I live right off Rosedale and Bay by Gayles.

 

Sincerely,

Jim