At 08:42 AM 4/29/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Lately I have been thinking about using those special foam blocks for >carrying my canoe on my car. But the information I found about it, >has a tendency to sound negative about the use of it? >I wonder if there are people here on PW that have had really >negative experiences with this kind of transport. >I have used them 2 times now, and I find it very slow to put on >compared to roof racks, but once everything is set, I do not see any problems? >Perhaps there is a chance of damage on the car roof on the long run, perhaps? Long long ago, we cartopped a canoe on a friends car using those foam blocks. We drove about 4 hours at 60+ mph. I noticed the bow was slowly getting closer to the hood of the car. The way we had set it up, 2 bow lines, a belly strap and a single stern rope was not enough. The bow had pulled down enough to release pressure on the 2 rear pads. The 2 rear pads had slid all the way down the gunwales of the canoe to the back deckplate. I think the roof may have ended up being dented from the weight of the canoe balancing on the front 2 pads. If you do decide to use the foam blocks for a canoe use 4 tiedown ropes, 1 to each corner of the car, all 4 ropes tied quite taut. Kirk *************************************************************************** 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 29 2002 - 10:58:37 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:52 PDT