Matt Broze wrote: >Yes they are way more secure but you are still trusting the attachment of >your rack to your car's roof to hold it all. Bow and stern lines diminish >the possibility of attachment failure by limiting the upward, forward/back >(if the lines are in a trapezoidal rather than parallelogram configuration >when viewed from the side) and side to side ranges of motion stressing the >attachments to the roof. If the rack comes loose for whatever reason bow and >stern lines will minimize the damage potential too. Also no single failure >in the system will lead to a disaster. >Matt Broze I agree re: limiting upward/forward/back and side-to-side motion. I generally do use a bow painter when I will be traveling at highway speeds. My custom rack is bolted to my topper with 10 bolts. My topper would come off of the pickup before the rack would detach from the topper. If this happened, I'm looking at a big insurance claim whether someone else was hit by the kayak/topper or the kayak and topper separately! If toppers regularly detached, the insurance companies would inevitably make you pay dearly for a "topper rider" to cover such accidents. Shawn *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Aug 29 1999 - 10:14:53 PDT
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