: I'd vote for this idea -- and then you can create your handhold by running a
: loop of tubular webbing or nylon line through the screw eye.....1 inch
: tubular webbing is comfortable to hold.... or make a wooden toggle. I made
: some wooden toggles by taking a Very Large (1 inch? it was the biggest I
: could find at the hardware store) diameter wooden dowel, cutting it to
: hand-width & rounding off the edges and drilling a hole through the
: middle--the "short way", and then coating it with epoxy, and
: threading the nylon line through the toggle and tying it off at the
: hole-in-the-boat (in your case, the screw eye, in my case, a hole drilled
: through the end pour.) They're comfortable-- I've got toggles on one boat
: and tubular webbing on the other, and both solutions are easy on the hand.
: I got multiple toggles from one dowel.

: I've done the lift-&-carry with both of these and in neither case did I have
: that uncomfortable "the rope is cutting into my hand, I've gotta set
: my end down NOW" feeling." Flat webbing is not comfortable,
: tubular webbing is.

: Julie Kanarr

Good Idea Julie! It just so happens that I have a length of 1 1/4" closet pole in the closet that I'm remodeling and will only be putting half of it back in. I think that will solve both problems sufficiently.

O.K., back to work. Putting floors in the cockpit now and will ( hopefully ) skin it tonight. Although tonight is here already!! Oh well, there's always.......... Tuesday!! Thanks again!!

Rehd