I'm just finishing one of these dollies. It was originally designed to carry a Sunfish sailboat so will carry a loaded kayak/canoe with ease. I narrowed the width to 16", added a PVC kickstand and am using airless 16" wheelbarrow tires from Home Depot. It doesn't come apart but makes a nice road/beach dolly.
http://my2fish.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/sunfish-pvc-dolly-plans/
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Very nice. I forget how much a Sunfish weighs but I do recall it’s heavier than a kayak.
Looks like a pretty nice rig!
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The tires I got are overkill for a kayak as I had planned to use it for a sunfish but changed my mind. Tires are rated for 300lbs have ball bearings and grease fittings on a 3/4in axel. They are the expensive part at $30 each.
Neat plans.
Thanks. How are the tires on deep sand?
SO…
…now that you’ve redesigned it as a super heavy-duty yak wagon, how ya goin’ to get that 300-400 pound sailboat in and out of the water when you decide to sail and NOT yo
PADDLE ON!
-Frank in Miami
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I took it for a test run in medium sand and a light kayak and it was fine. If you have a lot of really deep sand the balloon tires would be better.
My tires wear made for wheelbarrows.
Sailboat is going on CL…
Not that I don’t like it but really hard to get out of the mangroves to open water and then only at high tide.