Re: [Paddlewise] not a good morning

We've got a 2010 Honda Insight and a 2008 Toyota Prius.   The
roof rack is a Thule rack with the tower feet pads for the
Insight.  The rack is on the Insight most of the time.  BUT the
Insight is only 80% the size of the Prius and the insight isn't
as comfortable so for the 6 hour round trip I moved the rack to
the Prius.   After putting the rack on I shook the rack and it
seemed secure.



Someone suggested just tying a loop on the bow of
the [1]v12.jpg
([2]http://www.epickayaks.com/product/product/epic-v12).   It's
shaped very poorly for putting on a bow line, there's no
upsweep at the bow.  The only place a bow line would be secure
would be at the front edge of the cockpit about 9 feet back
from the actual bow.



Drilling a hole at the bow and fashioning a grommet line
opening would work, if I had sufficient fabricating skills -
but I'm not messing with the carbon/kevlar/nomex layup to do
that modification..



Kirk.



On Sun, Sep 14, 2014, at 05:28 PM, seakayakerjb wrote:

Sorry to hear about your misfortune Kirk.  I often drive short
city drive without bow and stern lines, as well as short burts
on the freeway.  I'm going to get back in the habit of doing
the bow and stern tie down, just incase.



Curious what rack system you had that gave way.  Mind sharing
that?



Here's to better days and no repeat performance.

References

1. http://www.epickayaks.com/images/products/61/v12.jpg
2. http://www.epickayaks.com/product/product/epic-v12

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