> 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? If your car has tie-down eyelets (under the car, usually one at each corner, for tying the car onto a flat-bed tow truck), you can use those. One approach is to start with a piece of rope a bit longer than the car is wide. Tie an S-hook or carabiner at each end. Take a second piece of rope long enough to reach from the bumper up to the kayak. Form a loop in one end of it (e.g., with a bowline) and thread the first piece of rope through the loop. To tie down the boat, hook the ends of the first piece of rope to the eyelets at the front corners of the car. Move the loop in the second piece of rope to the middle of the car and tie down the boat. This usually works only at the front of the car -- the exhaust pipe gets in the way at the rear. David Kiewit 5901 3rd St. South www.patent-faq.com St. Petersburg FL 33705 727 866 0669 voice/fax *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Apr 23 2002 - 04:43:00 PDT
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