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Prospector
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Initially Posted - 04/20/2011 :  05:38:25  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
I was surprised while chatting with a sailor type that they had never heard of these, so I mention it here.

When doing canoe rescues (back in theday) among the essentials in our whitewater ditch kits were a handful of oval carabiners and carabiner pulleys, these guys...

http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442632378&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302690507

You simply snap one of these sheaves onto a 'biner and it is instantly a decent pulley. At $3 they are very affordable.

While canoeing they are handy for rescuing canoes trapped against a roack in whitewater, or hoisting food bags into trees, or what have you. On the boat I keep a couple on hand, just in case. I could buy extra pulleys, but they are expensive, small, harder to deploy and easily lost. A carabiner with a pulley on it is easy to clip onto a loop of rope in the ditty bag, quick to deploy if needed, and can handle a decent load. If the plastic pulley fails, the rope is still held in place by the biner, but chafing could quickly become an issue - in an emergency, I'm not too worried about that, as long as things hold together long enough to find the proper pulley and get it in place. Think of this as an emergency snatchblock that will cost you a total of about $20 with carabiner and pulley all in.

To me its worth thinking about.
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redeye
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Response Posted - 04/20/2011 :  06:30:14  Show Profile
Nice addition.
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 04/21/2011 :  22:16:22  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Good idea. I've got one or two of those hanging on my old rock climbing rack, as well as an aluminum snatch block. I need to move them onto the boat, it's not like I'm ever going climbing again. Also got a bunch of carabiners as well, couldn't hurt to have them either.
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