PeteCress wrote:
Chekika wrote:
One of the hits of our Chokoloskee to Flamingo trip this year was Marty Cooperman’s physical therapy roller. Everyone lined up to use Marty’s roller to help get their boat up the beach.
Has anybody tried comparing ease of using just the one roller to that of using three half-pieces of PVC pipe ?
I was going to try the PVC come spring... but the roller appeals because it's light, hand-friendly, and serves as additional floatation if stored in the hull.
OTOH, seems like with just one roller there would be a sequence of lifting the hull to re-insert the roller over-and-over....
Or is the roller's function just to get the hull a half-length beyond the water?
You are worried about inserting the roller in several times, and then talking about 3 half-pieces of PVC pipe? How many times do you think you will be laying the half pipes down?
PVC pipe weighs much, much more than the roller. I've used both--there is no comparison. The roller is much better.
Basically, the roller serves to move the boat by one boat length. We normally time our arrival at a camp site around high tide, so we usually do not have to pull the boats up by more than 3, maybe 4 lengths.
Moving boats
down the beach is not much of a problem by either method.
Keith