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Show us pictures of your canoe vehicle with boat(s)
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June 24th 2015 and I just picked up my first kevlar canoe. Hornbeck "New Tricks" 12 weighing 18#'s sits atop of my 2007 Ford Freestyle in North River, NY.
It's May 19th 2020 and I've just upgraded to a Hornbeck "New Tricks" 14 @ 23# sitting atop of my 2014 Subaru Outback while at work.
GMC Canyon
15 foot solos
Rhinorack HD bar on the cab, Spring Creek T-bar hitch on the back end. I scored the 71” HD bar for $18 off etrailer and the Spring Creek T-bar is extendable to 96” I believe. Enough to carry 2 boats. I suppose if I staggered the boats and they were solos I might be able to get 3 up there?
Just put it up for sale in the Classifieds forum: 2017 Swift Keewaydin 15 Solo in full carbon:
I have used yakima bars since the early 80’s. I am too deep in add-ons to even consider other types. I have used the rails on many vehicles with success even though Yak says they won’t fit. Sometimes I had to take the rail mounts apart and then install them but it works. Looking at your Suburu I’m not sure most would fit. Next time I see an Outback I will pay more attention. I have used the same set of Yak rail mounts on a BMW wagon, three 4Runners, Sequoia, Suburban and Acura wagon. I use the 78” bars and I have some that are shorter from removing the rusty ends. I have locks but seldom use them. Happy trails
At the community campground, Marathon, Ontario, enroute to Wabakimi Provincial Park. The awning I made is so nice, especially if it is raining. Provides a dry staging spot while setting up or taking down camp.
Grand Lake Matagamon boat launch near the north entrance to Baxter State Park on Sunday morning after a trip. Boat is an OT Penobscot 16.
Transporting heavy wood-canvas canoes by car was so much easier for my grandfather than me.
It's well known how the car industry has conspired over the decades to make it more difficult and impractical to attach canoes to cars. By ridding cars of rain gutters and then bumpers they callously made car-topping so much more complicated and expensive. But the tectonic change was when they contemptuously eliminated fenders to make car-siding impossible.
Grandpa's fender lift technique was such an easier battle against gravity.
It's well known how the car industry has conspired over the decades to make it more difficult and impractical to attach canoes to cars. By ridding cars of rain gutters and then bumpers they callously made car-topping so much more complicated and expensive. But the tectonic change was when they contemptuously eliminated fenders to make car-siding impossible.
Grandpa's fender lift technique was such an easier battle against gravity.
Carefully plan those left turns!
Nowadays the sheet metal is so thin even if we had fenders they'd oilcan under a kevlar boat.
Pick up my new Hornbeck 14’ New Tricks a week ago yesterday. Normal transport is a Tacoma pickup, but I was on my way back from the BWCA.
This morning, near Fifth Machias Lake in eastern Maine.
The temperature at dawn was 62F, and the dewpoint not much less. It felt like a summer day when you'd hustle to get your travels done early before the afternoon thunderstorms.
The temperature at dawn was 62F, and the dewpoint not much less. It felt like a summer day when you'd hustle to get your travels done early before the afternoon thunderstorms.
The one at https://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?attachments/42233/ is probably the largest canoe on the smallest car while https://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?attachments/42878/ is the reverse. The one at https://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?attachments/2019-08-27-from-8-2019-jpg.43113/ may be the least safe but it was only for a low speed parade. The wagon ride at https://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?attachments/44373/ seems like the least comfortable. The canoes and cars at https://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?attachments/46207/ and http://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?attachments/31971/ are well matched. I frequently need to move more than one canoe as shown at http://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?attachments/5305/ and below.
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I'm very happy to have Benson participating on our site and don't mind links to the WCHA, of which I am an incoming Director. As I've stated a few times, for preservation purposes I prefer pictures posted on this site to be uploaded to our server rather than linked to third party servers, so I'm taking the liberty of attaching Benson's particularly unique six photo URLs below.
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Oops, sorry about that. Let me add two more below,
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No flatbeds on the portage trail, that's a rule!
(Is that the Old Town factory store in the background?)
No problem, Benson. You are unlikely to have encountered the posts wherein I expressed my photo preferences and explanations for the site.
Tutorial Tangent:
To repeat them for everyone: I prefer folks to upload photos to this site's server from their computers or phones rather than linking to photos resident on third party sites. The main reason is that those pictures will disappear from our threads if those third party sites die, or the owner's photo account does, or the owner does, as so often has happened historically. Photos uploaded to our server will last as long as this site does.
There are two ways to upload photos.
First, you can "attach" photos to the end of your post using the Attach Files (paperclip) button. I did that for Benson's six photos in post #97 above.
Second, you can "insert" photos anywhere in the text of your post using the Insert Image (mountain) icon. I edited Benson's two photos in post #98 above so both would be "insertions". The software will automatically insert photos at a maximum height and width of 950 pixels, even if the original photo is much larger than that. However, you can adjust an inserted image to smaller widths or heights, in different ways, by using image size tool bar that will pop up after you insert the photos. In post #98 I adjusted the two image widths to 800 pixels wide and the heights adusted proportionately.
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