On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, huck wrote: > > Ok, Ralph, I acknowledge that you have a cool boat carrying vehicle. I also > would like to recognize that over the last couple years on this list I have > heard some crazy stories of boat carrying ability. > > Care to make it interesting? > > I would like to see images of these kayak/canoe hauling monstrosities > that the many previous posts have been describing. Maybe an informal > competition of how many boats can your car reasonably carry. I suppose there > ought to be rules governing the most overburdened vehicle. Kind of like the > "rules" that governed the people who stuffed themselves into phone booths and > VW bugs. We could post pictures on a separate site with every Paddlewiser > getting one vote to throw at their boat of choice. > > My suggestions include: > > > No bagged boats. - All must be in full view of impartial judges. > Everyone knows that Ralph would thoroughly squish us with a dozen folders > stored under th e seats of some van. We have to play fair. > > If you are going to carry a boat, you must have a passenger for it > stuffed in the cars' cockpit, I mean passenger area, or whatever. This will > limit most pickup owners to something like 3,4 or 8 with a crewcab. Just so we > aren't seeing flatbed pickups hauling 40 little whitewater boats. The picture > on the back of the NRS catalog comes to mind. what if i take the family on a trip, and i take 2 boats for myself? i ask because that's why we had so many boats on my car in a previous post!! i wish i had a picture of it... one of the boats was a loaner... we had 3 people, boat seating for 6!! > Maybe some measurement like a boat to car weight ratio? (full tank) cool!! > All persons limbs must be inside the car. > > My father has an electrical company and often uses a huge school bus to > haul his electricians from site to site, it seats 60 and has a big full length > rack on top. Getting the local kayak club together would be a cinch. - But in > fairness, I automatically exclude myself from using it. (That would be sooo > cool!) > > Should we mandate bow-stern lines? (I hate to bring that up again.) > > This could be really fun. The owner could have bragging rights placed > right square in the the signature following their posts. > Something like "Laydeeeesss and Gentlemen, Theeee undisputed > heavyweight boat hauling champeeen of the world!!!! > > What do you think Paddlewisers? Care to show your portage vehicle? this was mellow, 17' aluminum canoe, 15' whitewater canoe, and 15' kayak: http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark/photo/alegrp1b.jpg i'll have to borrow another boat to "recreate" the larger load ;-) 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.jacknjillz.com/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: A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. - English Proverb *************************************************************************** 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 - 12:35:44 PDT
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