Subject: RE: [baidarka] car-topping
From: Phil Ellis (pcoellis@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 12:32:09 EST
Gina,
Couldn't agree more, but my boat now has a permanent hollow spot from the
straps (it's strapped on top of my truck most of the time during the
Summer). I've been considering alternate methods of securing it, like
stuffing it in a bag and strapping the bag down or tying down the deck
straps rather than the boat, but haven't come up with anything quick and
simple yet.
Regards,
Phil
>From: "Cicotello, Gina" <GCicotello@finsys.com>
>Reply-To: baidarka@paddlewise.net
>To: "'baidarka@paddlewise.net'" <baidarka@paddlewise.net>
>Subject: RE: [baidarka] car-topping
>Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:14:48 -0500
>
>Bruce Lemon, who carts his boats around the country enough to know,
>stressed to me the point that keeping the boat upside-down while car
>topping is
>less damaging to the boat's shape and more aerodynamic for driving. He
>especially hates seeing a SOF boat upright in cradles, with the bow and/or
>stern tied down to the vehicle -- forcibly pulling against the nice
>rockered shape you so carefully achieved while building.
>
>I use a standard Thule rack - just the bars, not the 'yak-rack cradles. I
>pad the bars with cylindrical closed-cell foam (attached with nylon cable
>ties, they can be replaced easily, foam doesn't last long exposed to the
>elements). The baidarka goes on upside-down, and gets strapped down with
>standard nylon webbing with heavy-duty buckles. I don't tie down the ends.
> Having driven half the East coast that way, I can vouch the aerodynamics
>are excellent; better gas mileage than w/o the boat on top.
>
>I like Paul Connolly's idea of making "saddles" out of foam, but I'd carve
>them to accommodate the pointed deck instead of the hull. If the bars are
>far enough apart that the coaming doesn't rest on at least one of them (as
>on my Civic), this would be a good modification.
>
>- Gina
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