Hey everybody welcome back, we're in the Texan water fishing and I had a couple questions recently asking me how I load my kayak and how I scrap it up I just get off the water and I'm gonna show you how I load my kayak up now one thing that I do I always use I'm sure always take me a part Today I don't have my typical cart. I have I normally take out with me I really like the blue dot outfitter's cart, but today I do have my old scupper hole plug-in a hobby cart and I'm gonna show you how I load the kayak up now if you don't have a cart It's always a good idea to maybe put a mat down before Before you elevate your kayak put it down right where you're gonna put your kill at on your bottom of your kite Because you don't want to drag your kayak over time What are you gonna do is you gonna drag and wear out that classic right there and it can lead you to you know More trouble than what it's worth so if you don't have a cart maybe you can put a mat down I always carry a mat with me Like that one that's a floor mat I put it up against the back of my truck So when I'm loading my kayak my nose and my kayak doesn't rub or touch I make sure when I load my kayak. I don't touch the Well will well either also have an additional mat right here because I don't want anything that your kayaks and rub against as The vibrates and goes down the road. It's gonna wear it out the plastic there. So I have them a mat in the bed of my truck and Yeah, so So I don't want my kayak. I want to keep my kite as long as I can Don't want to rub any unnecessary holes and it because we know with your on the oyster reef rocks or Or you know, maybe something you you don't see some object in the water. You're gonna do some Unvoluntary wear in tear on your kayak. So no sense to Brune it intentionally here's a the hobby card and It fits in my scupper hose like that and I'm just gonna Lift the nose on my cart. It's great to have a bed extender. It really helps a lot Keeping your your load your kayak secure So after put the nose on there just lift this bottom up Which is straight in Grab the old hobby cart Put it in here and like I said Having a bed extender really helps a lot You're gonna put the sides in my bed extender right here Kind of keeps it in place gives you another point of contact For your kayak You do have a Do you have a pickup truck keeps another point of contact and gives you a natural place where you can really secure down so Put those on there like so Now I prefer to use these kayak straps over ratchet straps They're not going to really Grip your kayak and squeeze your kayak like a ratchet strap real will I know a lot of people will use ratchet straps, but I really prefer these over over ratchet strap you can get Tremendous of pounds of weight they can be a strap down tremendous a pound of weight. This one's over 200 pounds So I have the eyes right here on both sides. I will fasten one going straight across and then I'll go around the handle And it's important to know that when I do go around the handle I'm not gonna put a lot of pressure on these handles. I'm not gonna Ratch it down or tighten it as strong as I can so there's one that go and it's probably a little bit of overkill But I put one here one here one there and then One around the backside of this kayak and it might be It might be a little overkill, but you know, I feel more secure. I've had it in situation before not On the roof of my SUV had a situation before one of the straps came loose So I always I double it up now. All right, so I'm gonna toss this over here Go through that eye right there come back around And I know some people gonna be like man, that's way too much. I put one little strap on mine and And I've done it that way for years, but you know what this just gives me a better piece of mine I mean I could very literally dooks a hazard jump over ramps and and my My kayak isn't going to budge at all. I have full faith in that so I'll just strap it down like that That is good to go. I do a couple simple couple simple overhand knots And that's that that's that with that one I have a ton of covers so that covers in the cover and take any wind resistance But this will help keep this in place from the nose going up and down so if I didn't have a cover I kind of have this in place too because in case My crate slides this isn't secured and leave it in there All right, and like I said, I'm just gonna simply go around Go around my handle right here and then I'm gonna go around going to this To this through this eye Like so and then I'm gonna Fasten it here Like that So kind of like that you know, I don't want the meadow touching my kayak So I kind of put it in this isn't to go like that and I'm not making it super tight I'm gonna do a few overhand knots and then that's that's all it's gonna take right there a couple overhand knots And then it's gonna stay in place like I said, I'm not Once I have it all tightened up if I want to tighten it up a little more I still can Come over to the other side do the same thing I'm gonna come through here Come to there again Go through that eye Right there feed it back through here And there we go and again, it's not going to be super tight I'm not gonna make this super tight. It's just gonna secure it in place and keep it rocking from back and forth I'll make a couple overhand knots on this one and you can go as Extensive as extensive not as you want you can make a really really good night if you want me I'm gonna do a couple simple over the hand knots because I wanted to come undone pretty easy when I get back to the house So that's done that's done and that's really gonna be it that's really all you need But I do like to put another strap on the back into this kayak. I do like I said I like to double up All right, so I'm gonna wrap it around This post almost see them will go in and come back around and they come up again Is that I'm gonna feed it through Well feed it through there And I'm just gonna wrap it around it this a few times and just do a couple overhand knots All right, I'm gonna lift up on the back end And it's not gonna be going anywhere I'm gonna grab The side a little bit shake it if I want to tighten up a little more. I can I'm not really too too concerned about it going getting loose Does not gonna hurt anything to have a little bit of slack on it. I mean like I said you don't want to Really tighten this down a whole Whole lot doesn't have to be really strong put my tiny cover down lock that down in place And then that's it, you know that is it is good to go. I can go on the highway going 80 90 ms an hour Not that I really go that fast, but I could go as fast as I want I can get stuck in traffic slam on my brakes You know any kind of stuff like that that happens in traffic and And I'm good to go, you know, I Feel a little more secure having the bedding center I know a lot of people this is probably a little overkill for some people having this many straps when you kayak But I do like having the bedding center It does offer that little extra security and this is just an inexpensive cheap bedding center I got like on Amazon like four years ago. It's a little rusty. It's time for us to go It's time for me to upgrade and get a new one, but You know that's it, you know, I feel very secure secure in my kayak have four straps on here these tie-axe straps I got them They got them when I bought Some other kayak cards, but they're pretty inexpensive you can find them on Amazon as well I leave I leave everything in the description section of this video if you have any questions go free I ask Thanks appreciate you know we get like Thomas card share Till next time hopefully catch me cooking up. Thanks You