On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Alex Ferguson wrote: > > > Caution note: in very heavy or sustained rains, you can pick up enough > > rainwater in a cockpit to collapse your rack > > I've heard that fallacy too. Over enough days maybe but > taking 6" of rain over night on a single, that's about 2" of > water in the cockpit. Remember the opening is a lot smaller > than the floor area of a standard (not folding) kayak. > > I would expect to be able to sit in my cockpit in my kayak on > the roof without the kayak, the rack or the car suffering. If not > something is built a bit light. Two more kayaks (3 all > together on the rack) would just about equal my weight. I've > carried 3 kayaks and a friend is trying to figure getting 5 on > her rack for along trip. Does that put a couple of gallons of > water into perspective? [snip] you must be pretty small ;-) if i sat in my kayak on the roof, believe me there would be no reason to think the roof _wouldn't_ collapse!! yakima says about 100-150lbs rating [45-70kg] for it's roof racks, i'm darn near double that!! well, the first number anyhow ;-) i've had it rain here [colorado, usa] hard enough overnight, that it took two of us just to roll the boat over on its side, that's only 11 gallons, 100lbs... mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com----http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark ---- # mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index to club websites i administer] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Fortune: "In a world without fences, who needs 'Gates'" -- Scott McNealy "In a world without walls, who needs 'Windows'" -- Dave Livigni *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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