RAD Sportz Kayak Storage Hoists - Overhead Pulley Hoist Systems with 125lb Capacity Each for Canoes, Bikes, Ladders, and More

Works as it should. I have a 10' Pelican yak weighing 44 lbs. No issues. Easy to install (all hardware included) and easy to lift/lower. Recommend.

Works great. Sturdy, easy install. Saves valuable floor and wall space

As others have noted, the instructions aren't great. But you can get it assembled with the double sided sheet that comes with the kit. It isn't clear enough in the instructions that both rope ends must first be threaded through the locking mechanism, but the rest is OK.Lowering the boat once hoisted requires a little bit of a trick where you alternate lowering the front, then the back, then the front, etc. This isn't mentioned either. But after dropping the kayak once I figured it out ;-)Because a kayak gets narrower towards both ends, the webbing straps want to slide off the ends. Not much you can do about this except be aware and make sure you have the webbing straps snugged up well. I think I am going to add a strap or rope along the bottom of the boat to pull both of the webbing straps together. This should counter the natural tendency of the straps to slide off the ends of the boat. Note that this is not a fatal flaw, just something to keep an eye on.Also noted in other reviews, you need to be aware that you cannot pull the boat all the way to the ceiling. There is a pulley assembly plus a V-shaped length of webbing that takes up at least 30" above your boat. Not much you can do about this. I have a very high garage so it's not much of an issue for me. But I would suggest you plan on at least 30" between the ceiling and the gunwales of your boat. Maybe you can pull it up tighter, but I couldn't.Nothing in this kit is going to win any awards for top of the line materials. But all of the parts are just good enough and the system works pretty well.My boat (Jackson Coosa kayak) weighs 70 lbs once it's ready to be hoisted. I set the pulleys 5' 8" apart to fit my boat even though the instructions say 6' to 8', for reasons that aren't clear to me. In theory, the stresses on a lifted plank are at a minimum when the spacing between the supports is around 60% of the length of the plank. I placed the pulleys a little closer together than that since the kayak is fatter (i.e. heavier) in the middle than on the ends.I suspect that the rope will fray and wear out someday at the two anchor points if you do a lot of hoisting. But for $25 I'm not complaining much. All in all, it works reasonably well as is well worth the price.

This product works. Well conceived and well thought through. Dead simple. I have some warnings and a suggestion.I started off trying to install this in my garage. The way the hooks and straps are designed there's a drop of almost 31 in from the roof joist in my garage to the bottom of my boat. That puts my boat smack in the middle of the space that my garage door wants to roll up into, so that didn't work. I can think of modifications that would reduce that drop by maybe as much as 6 inches but there's still going to be a drop that needs to be anticipated. My garage is 10 ft floor to truss.Lucky for me I had a carport alternative and that worked out well. The advantage of stalling and removing and reinstalling is that the second time you do it goes really quickly.My boat is a surf ski, very narrow, and because of that the loops on the straps don't cinch up enough. They give you a bunch of loops so that you can choose the width that suits the boat, and my boat is too narrow for the narrowest. I'm going to have a seamstress sew in new loops for me. In the meantime the straps are kind of sloppy. If your boat is wide and not very deep you won't have as much drop.My suggestion about the instructions and the rope: Read about how to space your pulleys and read the general comments, but don't try to follow the instructions as you install the unit. Instead just look at the picture and see the way the rope is run. I had an inspiration and instead of cutting the rope I installed it in the far pulley and through the near pulley and brake, pulled it all the way through and then installed it into the near pulley without ever cutting it. Yeah, I was worried about cutting it in the middle and discovering that the long piece was too short and the short piece was too long. My strategy of running the rope through the near pulley (the pulley with the brake) without ever cutting it did away with that problem and there was abundant rope available.Oh, one other warning. The factory lag bolt holes in the mounting brackets are too far apart to fit perpendicular across a flat 2x4. I had to drill a new hole to accept the second lag bolt.Yes I'm going to be parking my car underneath the boat, which the manufacturer says not to do. I'm betting nine out of 10 boats hung on the system are hung above cars.

Looks great, easy to install (once you search for a video on YouTube). The kit comes with everything you need to hang your kayak (or canoe?) from garage or barn joists. Easy to figure out even without instructions (which are not bad, just over engineered)...the bit about threading the rope through the brake was, possibly, the most complicated step....The materials seem to be of decent quality (and you really cannot complain of the pricing!) and very sturdy.I hope it lasts!!

Once you figure out how to run the ropes, they work well. The directions could use a bit more clarity though.

The hardware is fine, the rope sucks. It's cheap, poorly made, frays easily, unravels even if you burns the ends. If it weren't for the rope, Id give it 5 stars.