huck wrote: > > Somewhere between a repost either Joe Broza or Ralph Diaz said > (I lost track of whose quotes were whose) > > Snip > Trouble is limitation in how many boats you can carry. You can't stack > >em on their sides and therefore it looks like a small car could carry > >just two at best. With roof rack bars you have a wider expanse for > >putting on the boats side by side. > > > >> > Yakima makes something called a Kayak Stacker. It is meant for stacking > kayaks on their rails - a very strong point on the boat. Yes, I know. I had them for my Thule. What I was referring to was that the portable pads that don't use rack bars can't have a stacker device as there are no cross pieces to place the stacker on. I have piled as many as six kayaks on the Thule rack on my former mini-van using the stackers. Four sea kayaks on their sides (including a folding single) and two whitewater boats on top and driven the monstrosity several hundred miles. The sides of a kayak, as you stated in a snipped portion of your message, are the strongest point and having pads on the bars make it less likely to damage the boats. ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 26 1999 - 09:48:56 PDT
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