Joseph Pylka wrote: > Two bars can make a very strong support especially if you can space them > some distance apart. I have a Grand Voyager so I get plenty of length and > the boats remain stable. It seems to me 3 bars would make for > difficulties. Even if you set them dead level, your boat's profile might > not be. And if you're on a group trip somebody's boat isn't going to fit > right. You'd probably wind up either not having anything supported by the > bar or else removing it entirely now and then to accomodate some new boat > combination. This is why the centre bar has to be level with or lower than the others. IMHO a little bit lower would probably be better. WOn't matter if you have cradles. > Two bars would give you plenty of space for differences in curvature, > three bars could restrict you. Yup. In my comments I was assuming that few boats would curve downward relative to the ends, although with the sea kayaks prevalent on this list that would be rather different if no cradles or other holders were used. Three does let you carry shorter boats staggered (most frequent use I have seen=WW kayaks) and provides other options. Three is fine for upside-down canoes, but I don't know when it would be really necessary. (Very few people do this 3-bar thing.) I have thought about three so that I could put one further forward on my newer model mini-van. The old guttter-mounts let you choose your spacing, but that is not so easy now with rail-mounts. (Look at the spacing possibility on an Odyssey--that fronbar is very far back. One reason I did not buy one.) Racking is the most irritating part of paddling. GaryJ *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Jun 26 2003 - 09:25:17 PDT
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