Kirk Olsen wrote: >I've seen several kayaks cartopped on convertibles. My father used to >have a trunk mounted wood thing as a rear rack and would use the >windshield as the front rack. I wouldn't consider that set up to have >been safe.... > > > I used to date a girl years ago that cartopped a canoe on a 1968 Mustang covertible. Her dad made this pretty ingenious rig that mounted on the car when the top was down. So if the weather was questionable, we tandemed & took my 1969 Camaro coupe (Her canoe, though, because it was better than mine). Don't recall the details of how it was made, but it worked great. Wayne -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Smith wsmith16_at_charter.net Check out my website!: http://webpages.charter.net/wsmith16/home.html *************************************************************************** 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 May 26 2005 - 18:22:27 PDT
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