Building a Garage / Driveway cart for my Hobie AI

I picked up this steel cart on Craigslist yesterday for $20. It’s 99L x 22W and weighs about 35-45 pounds. This has 4” Colson casters, two with brakes. I am going to use it to make a garage storage cart for my AI (sans amas) and am looking for some input as to how you folks would adapt this cart for my purposes.

Right now I store the yak upside down on sawhorses and it is a pain to get it out of the garage and onto my truck. I wanted something to roll out in the driveway or street. I'm undecided on what to add to the cart. I was thinking of 10 foot long 1.5 or 2” PVC tubes running along the grooves on the bottom of the hull. I’d build a frame to bring them up just above the 37” high handle. That would make it easy to work on, not to mention closer to the roof of my camper shell.

Perhaps a frame with the tubing attached to match the grooves as you suggest.
Personally, I would build a vertical frame to match the handle height, in the centre of the cart.
Then attach the frame holding the tubes by way of pivoting on the vertical frame.

The reason I suggest this is that when you lift the front or rear of the AI to slide onto
your camper shell, you will be concentrating the weight in a small area. If the
tubes can pivot for loading/unloading, it will spread the weight and make sliding easier.

Something like this -


Just make sure the pivot point is past half way towards the rear. This will
mean there is more weight in front of the pivot so it doesn't tilt on its own.

I actually use 2x3" timber shaped to a V on top and covered in carpet.
I imagine the carpet makes sliding my TI easier.

Unlike most others, I leave the Amas attached when loading and unloading.

All depends on what you have available and how handy you are of course.

This is the rack I made. I use an electric winch to lift it off the car up to the ceiling.
To unload, I slide it off, put the frame attached to the rear, on the ground then
lift off the nose onto a cart. Opposite to load. The frame sits on roof racks to
transport.

This is my frame, which doesn't tilt and concentrates the weight when loading -

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Cheers, Brian in South Australia
Tandem Island -

Great stuff. Thanks!