Pulley system for taking board off car/storing them

Here's a system that I find very convenient for taking our boards off the car and storing them out of the way:
http://www.northcoast.com/~alanmacy/Al.htm

You just put the loops around the ends of the boards and pull. The rope is cleated to a cleat on the wall when the boards are up to the ceiling.

I've experimented with a few systems, and this one seems to work best.

Have you ever thought about just riding waves with your surf boards instead of cute ways to store them? Geez, next you'll promote vasoline as a convenient way to slip surf boards in and out of board bags.

And, are those surf boards or airplane wings? It seems that buying new surf boards, caring for them, storing them... almost anything but actually riding them, is foremast in the minds of most longboarders.

Longboards are the equivilent of booster seats in the infant world, high chairs in the toddler world, and training wheels in the child world.

WHOH, AL-DUDE!!!

Like, nice rig you got going there for taking off the boards, I like it!

Here is an idea for an improvement:

Instead of having the rope go to a cleat on the wall, feed it to a pulley attached to a rotating spindle on a small motor. Then install a push button control for the motor and you could just push a button and have the boards removed from your car AUTOMATICALLY!!! Also, you could figure out a way to have the loops automatically engage around the boards when you drive in, and then you could get a remote control for the motor that pulls on the rope to raise them and you could just drive in, click your remote and VOILA!, boards off roof. THat would be way cool, you know, okay?

Get a good look at those airplane wings, Carson, 'cause that's what you're gonna want when you're pushing 50.

I'm 53 Al, the only time I touch a longbored is to help save one from going on the rocks and even then it is a tough decision. I learned the basics in 1966 on a 10'4' Greg Noll and went short boards two years later. Its not an age thing to ride a longbored it is more like a crutch. OBsurfr

Ah, the subtle sarcasm, the hidden inferences, it speaks *volumes*. I'd love to go back to the 'good ol' days' and type pages and pages of analytical interpretation of this classic SURF DOPE message to help enlighten the ascii-interpretation- impaired members of this ng, but I think I'll pass and just type:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Later,

Not for Carson. He will instead focus on keeping his mind and body toned and tuned such that short boards will still be his vehicle of choice for a long time to come. Riding short boards is about your natural abilities in combination with your physical conditioning. Conversely, riding long boards is more about trying to gain some advantage to make up for the absence of natural abilities or the lack of physical conditioning.

For Carson, staying in great physical condition is as much a result of genetic advantage as it is personal dicipline. Carson's dad is coming up on 82 this August. Before he suffered a heart attack in late January of this year he was doing 20 clean push ups on his finger tips, 10 clean pull ups and several sets of rowing exercises in addition to tooling around on his bike along Brays Buoy in Houston. He had being doing these types of physical activities almost every day without fail since Carson can remember up until his heart attack and subsequent triple bypass surgery. Of course, the numbers and reps were much higher when he was younger.

What likely led to his heart attack was a predisposition to high cholesterol in combination with the eggs, bacon, cheese and milk that he consumed in generous amounts, daily. Not surprisingly, he has altered his diet greatly since these events. Carson too has taken the cue to pretty much cut high fat and high cholesterol foods out of this diet proactively.

Carson keeps tuned and toned by a regimine that incorporates most of what his father taught him since he was a little tike. Pull ups, push ups, punching the heavy bag and some sit ups in combination with swimming laps, off road mountain biking and surfing whenever there are waves. He does not lift weights. Weight lifting is for guys who have small peckers and a lot insecurities. All weights do is bulk you up and give you a false since of security about your strength. Just try to fend off a hostile person with your bench or military pressing techniques next time the occasion happens to arrise.

So, in summary... go jump in a lke with your airplane wing.

Don't expect much in the way of favorable replies here. It's not the nature of AS. I liked it. Simple. Efficient. Home made and, I bet, kinda fun to use.

of course not george. you don't need to touch a longboard for a crutch anymore. Hell, you're so lame......like Foonduckie, you don't even waste the energy getting to your feet......

........oh, I'm sorry, it's because you two want to feel closer to the wave........yeah right.......and monkey's might fly out of flek ass......

That's applicable to just anyone on this group, including you and me, and excluding only Neal and Bud. Oh, there was also G's recent footage from La Selva.

Speaking of video, our best video guy (Jose) is heading up to the PNW this month. I await the footage...

just wait till he see's the non-disclosure agreement he has to sign......in his own