> > My understanding is that they are auxilary - just to prevent the boat > from complete flying off the roof. Lateral shift is effectively > blocked by other means, like 2 pairs of saddles or rollers(they also > block vertical shift, so tie-ups are again auxilary). As posted before I think the bow and stern tie downs are useful in taking torsional stress off of the roof rack due to "lift" from the airstream. In that sense they also take some stress off the straps used to keep the boat in the saddles. Even with saddles, boats can move around a bit so I think tie downs do help prevent shifting side to side as well. And too much is better than not enough!! *************************************************************************** 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 Jun 17 2003 - 12:34:47 PDT
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