Sam: for carrying boats I think it is hard to beat a Jeep Cherokee. It has three things going for it. First, it has old style rain gutters. This means you can use any kind of gutter mount rack, including the ones painters use, which are much cheaper than your yakima, thule, etc. Second, it is not too high to easily load and unload boats, but still has sufficient ground clearance and four wheel drive prowess you get you into the out of the way spots. Third, it is very nearly the same width along its whole length. This makes it easy to slide the racks forward or backward to match the length of the load. Finally, the Cherokee is the least expensive of the sport utes. I see brand new ones advertised for less than 20k., and used ones are correspondingly inexpensive when compared to Four Runners, etc. I hope when the redesign comes out, they keep the rain gutters! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Oct 08 2000 - 19:15:54 PDT
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