Castro | Wed Jun-18-03 09:01 AM |
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#15478, "RE: Car Topping a Kickboat"
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I’ve gone and strapped my kick boat to the top of a Honda Civic. Rolled up a couple of towels to protect the top of the car. I think we rolled down the windows, used ratchet tie downs.
Driving down the road the car looks real funny. If we each put out an arm out the window while driving the freeway, I could swear we would take off like an airplane. :+
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jsmith | Wed Jun-18-03 09:51 AM |
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#15480, "RE: Car Topping a Kickboat"
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Wed Jun-18-03 10:05 AM by jsmith
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I used to carry my 8-ft Outcast PAC-800 on my Honday Accord, with a Thule (brand-name) roof rack (the type with just two bars going across the width of the car). Like Joey says, it looked like I would take off any second -- those banana-shaped tubes were damn near as long as the car! :+ With the roof rack, though, it really made it simpler to tie down. 70 MPH or better -- no problem!
As for the tie-downs themselves, I went to our local 'Sports Rack' store (see them on the web @: www.sportsrack.com ), where they have what they call their "Cushion Wrap Tie Down - TD15C." See the picture below. You can probably find this type of strap wherever you would find bike racks, etc. I also got some from Outcast -- www.outcastboats.com -- they call them 'cam straps.'
They work incredibly well. I have about a dozen of them, cut to different lengths, to cinch down securely anything I have to attach to my car, truck or RV (or even to the wall or ceiling in my garage!).
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/1241.jpg
Hope that helps!
- jeff
----------------------- Every day Congress convenes, we lose a little more of our LIBERTY!!!
(-- Mark Levin, radio-show host/KSFO 3-6pm)
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LzyFish | Fri Jun-20-03 06:33 PM |
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#15521, "RE: Car Topping a Kickboat"
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How far is that from Old Braunfels?
Lzydeus Pisceus
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