Subject: RE: [baidarka] car-topping
From: Kirk Olsen (kolsen@imaginelan.com)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 15:15:36 EST
At 12:32 PM 12/17/01 -0500, Phil wrote:
>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.
I wouldn't try tying down the straps and not the boat. I remember seeing a canoe
that someone had cartopped by tying the gunwales to the rack instead of belly straps.
The boat suffered many stress cracks in the hull.
I would go for using foam blocks or padded wood form cut to the shape of the deck to transport the boat upside down. Also you don't need a whole lot of tension on the belly straps if
you use bow and stern lines to hold the boat in one place.
One person I know uses an aluminum extension ladder with closed cell foam cutouts to transport their boat, a tandem outrigger canoe. The ladder is attached to the roofrack and the
boat gets strapped to the ladder.
kirk
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