This accident makes me very worried about my brand-new Yakima roofrack. It turns out that I cannot tie down the boat to the bumper. I bought the ties with very nice hooks but my car has nothing I could tie the boat to! There are two hooks that I can screw into the bumper but they are both on the right side of the car and put one-sided stress force on the boat. Any ideas how I can solve that problem? Btw, when I bought the car, I did not have a boat yet and I had never strapped a boat to a car before:( Heike Personally, I always use two 1" straps to attach the boat to the rack and 2 more, front and rear, hooked to the bumpers. I have a glass *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 10:25:24 PDT
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