advice for Stealth 12 PVC cart?

[alanw]

I custom welded my own wheel cart for my S12 with the supports fitting perfectly in those channels and I'd recommend your cart fit them as well to keep the yak from shifting one way or the other. If you can design your cart to fit the channels up top but then be wider at the bottom for stability you'd be good to go.

[45user]

I have stealth 12 and made the exact cart Sdspeed posted. It is very easy to make and pretty sturdy. Only thing I didn't do was to glue the PVC as it was told
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[Dirty Curti]

I also made the same one sdspeed posted. The only difference was I added posts to fit into the scupper holes so it won't shift or spread. I made sure everything fit and worked prior to gluing.

The posts have to be small as the scupper holes are in a slight angle. So I made them just long enough to go into the hole and the hull just lays on the pads.

I posted both carts made by Palmetto in the innovations section. This is the other one.http://palmettokayakfishing.blogspot...ayak-cart.html

[pbb]

Thanks for all the feedback. It is loosely based on the Palmetto PVC cart, but again I was eyeballing the width in my original cuts.

I might take the yak down and give a trial run in the yard at the current width before gluing everything together or deciding to cut it narrower to fit into the channels.

I didn't want to put posts for the scupper holes, b/c I saw (on youtube) that some folks turn their carts upside down on their cars and use them to load onto the racks. But I suppose I could consider putting posts that wouldn't be glued in and thus could be removed for car loading.

I'm using Lowe's 7 inch plastic wheels, which are fairly narrow (1.5"). It just occurred to me that I could buy a second pair of wheels to increase the width of both the wheel surface and the overall cart: A dually kayak cart. An extra set of wheels would be $10, and 3 additional inches of wheel width and overall cart width.

Anybody have good suggestions about where to buy pool noodles this time of year in SD? Suggestions other than Walmart are greatly appreciated...

[alanw]

The standard hobie cart is around 12" wide where the supports are, so making yours 10 1/2" wide like I did to fit the stealth isn't anything to worry about. It works great

[Dirty Curti]

Originally Posted by pbb

Thanks for all the feedback. It is loosely based on the Palmetto PVC cart, but again I was eyeballing the width in my original cuts.

I might take the yak down and give a trial run in the yard at the current width before gluing everything together or deciding to cut it narrower to fit into the channels.

I didn't want to put posts for the scupper holes, b/c I saw (on youtube) that some folks turn their carts upside down on their cars and use them to load onto the racks. But I suppose I could consider putting posts that wouldn't be glued in and thus could be removed for car loading.

I'm using Lowe's 7 inch plastic wheels, which are fairly narrow (1.5"). It just occurred to me that I could buy a second pair of wheels to increase the width of both the wheel surface and the overall cart: A dually kayak cart. An extra set of wheels would be $10, and 3 additional inches of wheel width and overall cart width.

Anybody have good suggestions about where to buy pool noodles this time of year in SD? Suggestions other than Walmart are greatly appreciated...

I bought my cart wheels at Harbor freight for $5.99 each. The pool noodle I got from Walgreens. They were displayed outside the front of the door. $2.99

[JarrodMc]

I've got an extra dolly from the X-13 I had. It's powder coated steel. PM me if interested.

[maui jim]

Here's my beast cart... does low 10's in the quarter mile