Boat Forum / Paddle Boats / October 2006

16' kayak on a 12' car, as a regular thing.  Crazy, impossible?  Easy
as pie, safe as houses?
I welcome your opinion!
 -ml

Does anyone know if Toyota Matrix is long enough to carry a 17' sea
kayak? Car has a Thule roof rack; I also have a Hullaport kayak
carrier. I think most cars could do this, but Matrix is shorter than
the cars I used before and I am wondering if a 17' kayak can be tied

3 of the ribs on my Nautiraid kayak are broken and the cost to replace them
is over 300$. 2 of the ribs I've already replaced with regular home-depot
plywood but in the form of a solid board - the center isn't cut out because
the wood isn't strong enough alone, but I'd like it ...

I just traded my laptop for a Sea Lion kayak, a 17' plastic solo.  I have a
few questions...
I loaded it  on my roof rack right side up in the dark, in the pouring rain
and a 30mph wind; I just wanted to secure it and get out of there.  When I

Not to put too fine a point on it, but it seems like there's a conflict when
wearing a two-piece (pants + shirt) outfit under a bag suit that has a relief
zipper.
No belt on the pants and they tend to fall down inside the suit.

Well, it's not a pure canoe, but a kind of hybrid...the Adventure 14 by
Mad River, which I've being paddling like a kayak with 245cm paddles,
and it goes just great. I can even see the extra benefit of levelling
the boat in high winds with a simple stroke on the water.

On the face of it, sounds like an inane question.
Safety!  ... right?
At least that's why I would use them: to keep the boat from flying into the
windshield of a following vehicle if for some reason the rack system failed.

During my trip to Glenwood Canyon a month ago I spent a couple of hours
on the Colorado River playing with my Pentax Optio W10 in a video mode.
I tried the camera mounted in different ways on a kayak deck with a
suction cup (sticky pod) and as a helmet cam. I didn't add any music. ...

I am looking at a carbon-kevlar hull Impex Montauk.
Anyone have experience with or opinion of carbon-kevlar hull construction?
Does it have problems? Inpact resistant? Maintain its hull shape?
Delamination? Anything negative.

I'm new to this newsgroup having recently taken up canoeing on some British
rivers.
Its been fasinating to read of your canoeing adventures.
I have a problem with an Old Town Discovery Scout and if someone with

Just bought a set.   Fastening them to a set of Yak crossbars mounted to a
Suburban's factory fore-aft rails in an effort to pick up some carrying capacity
where lateral space is too limited to carry the boat (12' 6" WaveWitch) flat on
the racks.

I posted the message below in 2004, but never took any action. I'm sure
things have changed, so maybe there are new cameras out there I should take
a look at. Several people mentioned Optio at the time, so maybe they are
still a good choice. I'd prefer digital. I recently went on a ...

My budget is pretty low.  I have to keep it under $500 for a
recreational kayak, paddle, and life vest.  I would love to hear some
recommendations.  I live in northern indiana so I'm not planning on any
white water.

In my garage, I've got this wooden rack - made out of 2x4's.  Basically two
goalposts connected and on wheels with a couple extra crossbars.
Needs tb a few inches wider to accommodate a new toy.
I'm thinking something like 2 or 3-inch PVC pipe would be easier to look at.

Wonder if anyone's seen anything like this before?
http://www.geocities.com/sblume/download3.jpg
http://www.pelican-intl.com/touring.html
http://www.coleman.com/coleman/colemancom/detail.asp?product_id=A17M010&category
id=66001