John - I have the Thule cradles in the front and the Yakima rollers in the back. Using both front and back sets of rollers seemed to create a wobbly-riding kayak and it made me nervous, so I put the cradles in. (Before Yakima came out with the Sweet Roll.) I have heard that the Hully rollers are difficult to use with plastic boats (that they deform the hull and/or don't roll well), but so far mine has only been used with a glass boat and works fine. The Thule cradles are very nice, and adjustable to the shape of your hull. Straps are not attached to cradles, which I like. There is a height difference between the installed Yak rollers and the Thule cradles - possibly this is solved in Yakima's own integrated version of the product - which results in your kayak pointing slightly downward in the front. Kind of a jaunty hat look. Seems to work ok so far. If it bothered you, you could probably engineer some kind of solution - padding ? slightly higher bar in front ? The outrigger bar did not work for me at all - once you have the boat up on the outrigger, you have to be tall enough and strong enough to lift it over the high edges of cradles. But then again I am short, weak, and was working at the time with a car much taller than myself. I would use the outrigger if I was using foam blocks, which have less likelihood (I think) of harming the hull. Bought mine - most of it - from Car Racks Direct, and have been pleased with their knowledge, service, promptness, and prices. http://www.outdoorsports.com >From snowy (again) cold (still) Maine, Anne Burton *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 11 1999 - 04:19:24 PST
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