Re: [Paddlewise] Off topic--ski racks

Ralph,
    I'm not sure how they work but there is something like fake rain gutters you
can put on the cars. I'm not at all sure that you don't have to drill holes to
put them on but it might be worth looking into. I think the ones I was talking
with someone about were Yakama. Don't know about the ski racks, only horse
trailers.

Joan

rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com wrote:

> Now that I am renting cars rather than owning, I am in need of a
> cross-country ski rack setup that could be used on a variety of cars,
> all without rain gutters and all without factory OEM roof racks.
>
> Since many on this listserver also ski, do any of you know if there is
> such a thing on the market as a ski rack that could be used on just
> about any new car?  In the days when cars all had rain gutters this was
> no big deal, except for standing out in the cold adjusting the length of
> the rack or of the steel bands whose hooked ends wrapped around the rain
> gutters.  Are the hooked ends of the bands now set to grab the inside of
> door frames or other points of gutterless cars?  Or am I out of luck?
>
> I suspect that nowadays ski racks are matched to specific cars or are
> meant to fit on factory racks or the standard bars of Thule, Yakima and
> the like.
>
> I thought of asking our Floridian friends, Bob Denton and Sandy Kramer
> among others, but, while the rest of us are trying to remember ever
> hearing the sound of snow flakes on water, they are still trying to
> figure out what snow is. :-)
>
> ralph diaz
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