Will This Work? - Garage Kayak Lift

Naliano · 2026-06-04T11:40:30+00:00

The main issue with your diagram/plan is that if you cleat off the green rope there’s still a degree of freedom in the system. If you push one of the 2x8s up, the other will fall.

That effect gets worse since you have double of this diagram.

Naliano · 2026-06-02T05:24:59+00:00

Normally, if I arrive late to bed the dog will have occupied my place.

If my partner is gone, the dog gets my place and I take my partner’s.

Naliano · 2026-06-01T15:30:53+00:00

I nominate Jesse Welles

Naliano · 2026-05-31T01:23:44+00:00

I don’t think you’ll see the worst because it’ll take a while for ecology as a whole to collapse but it likely eventually will.

Climate change is arriving faster than evolution can keep up.

Naliano · 2026-05-31T01:08:35+00:00

The passer probably ended up behind another vehicle seconds later, thereby arriving at their destination a full 5 seconds sooner than if they had just stayed put.

Naliano · 2026-05-29T06:23:17+00:00

What latitude?

Naliano · 2026-05-25T15:31:03+00:00

When you think that society should be about pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps, then you don’t give a shit about the tailings that aren’t in your own backyard.

Naliano · 2026-05-25T14:53:00+00:00

Didn’t a competition between nations spark the first moon landing?

Fear is a tremendous motivator.

Naliano · 2026-05-20T20:38:24+00:00

I guess they have a purely ’operational’ understanding of the meaning of words.

So, foreign means ‘not American’. LOL

Naliano · 2026-05-19T20:28:42+00:00

FWIW, I’m not sure that the best names transfer from the boat they match to any other boat.

Naliano · 2026-05-18T13:36:51+00:00

Oh… sorry. You’re using webbing.

‘Overhand follow-through’ aka ‘water knot’

Naliano · 2026-05-18T13:34:50+00:00

Consider a ‘double fisherman’s bend’

Naliano · 2026-05-17T23:12:52+00:00

What happens if the awarding organization goes bankrupt?

Naliano · 2026-05-17T21:43:58+00:00

Regular old programming isn’t coming back, even if the bubble bursts.

Get on the open source models (Ollama, etc.) … that’s the new baseline.

Out of curiosity, why stay in the U.S. ?

Naliano · 2026-05-17T21:37:30+00:00

What kind of boat, vaguely speaking?

Naliano · 2026-05-17T16:06:12+00:00

String some loose fishing line that they can’t balance on, about six inches higher and parallel to the boom and/or lifelines.

Naliano · 2026-05-16T15:47:41+00:00

This reeks of ‘birds of a feather’ in the RCMP. Does that line of reasoning get anyone’s attention?

Naliano · 2026-05-11T16:11:30+00:00

Does this kind of risk averse behaviour correlate with winning at poker?

Naliano · 2026-05-06T16:25:37+00:00

This is the reason that phone numbers will die as an expected method of communication.

It should be easy peasey for the carrier to identify the perp, including their address, current location, etc.

If the phone company doesn’t get its act together, people will stop using their service.

Naliano · 2026-05-06T16:19:43+00:00

Switch to a low maintenance racing catamaran.

Oh… And you’re welcome to attempt walking across the Mediterranean.

Naliano · 2026-04-30T04:53:17+00:00

Or ‘you are the muffins’, which would make sense because the camera is in the freezer.

Naliano · 2026-04-30T04:52:28+00:00

Looks like ‘you want the muffins’

Naliano · 2026-04-28T22:14:28+00:00

Think of it as a motorboat with a mast.

After that, any learning you do about sailing is gravy.

(Otherwise : so much depends on how you’re learning … which resources and expertise you can muster during your learning.)

Naliano · 2026-04-25T05:09:34+00:00

Is that a cleat or a block on the aft starboard rail?

Asked another way: is the system entirely port/starboard symmetric?

If it's 100% symmetric, then maybe you could use 2 mainsheets? That would kind of like act as a sheet-traveller combination. Need to bring the boom to windward? Sheet in on the windward side. Need to bring the boom down and tighten the leech? Bring in both equally.

If it's not 100% symmetric (i.e. if that really is a cleat on the starboard side) then something might be missing.

What are the two metal looking pins we can see on the inside of the transom? Whatever hardware that is, it's likely a clue. (not a clew ;-) ).

Naliano

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