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[kjfishman]

Option 1   This may not work in your situation but If you have a pickup truck you can get a bed extender at Harbor Freight that hooks into you 2" trail hitch. I also added the magnetic tail lights (secured with zip ties) to the unit. I haul my Loon 138, almost 14 foot in a short bed quad cab truck. Comes in handy hauling wood and drywall also.

 

Option 2   I had a Diesel Jeep Liberty before the  truck and it was getting hard to get the big yak on the roof racks. If I didn't switch to a truck  I would have bought a folding 8 foot trailer or the cheaper  4x4 trailer  and extended the tongue. A trailer would have come in handy for other things so might be a good investment.

[rb56]

i have a pickup and found this and it is a heckava rack for the money and easy to install for those with trucks. it's easy to slide my pelican 15.5 on and off. i have considered the trailer at harbor freight as mentioned also, but don't want to deal with the tags and registration and all yet. i'm in the process of adding onto my canoe, i already had the dash board made and works ok. i have rebuilt my transom and went from a 2x4 to using steel slotted angle iron with a block of 2x4 on the mount side. made line reels for anchor lines using pvc to make like a wagon wheel and just reel in the rope with. now i have almost completed building my pontoons from pvc. i originally planned to mount them off the dash but just noticed the middle seat rod holders, one on each side are a just right fit for the mounting on each side. i did a test run on them but they weren't secured as i knew adjustments would come. i found to hold the pvc arms down on the side of the boat made it very stable. where the arms go out a strap will go over them and tighten to serve that purpose. also they slide in when moving if i want or need to keep from hitting them. i'll post pics soon, also mounted a stern light to run off the depth finder battery with a cig lighter plug in that plugs in the 4 terminal unit under the dash, which also is graduated across the top to 36 in. for a ruler, drink holder, rod holder, spotlight holder, 6' magnetic strip handy for clippers etc, a plate for magnetic antenna and copper ground that goes into the water, a section of strap on the edge for the hand held cb belt clip, shotgun/rifle rack for 1, bolt for my depth finder which i remove since i haul on the rack upside down. also am adding to it a sliding glove box underneath or a camo fanny pack for items.

 

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[upnorthbassin]

Thanks for the advise guys. I figured that I'll just buy the roof rack and try it. I'll probably make one of those loading bars since they look like they help. If it doesn't work, I'll still be able to use the roof rack for other things. If worst comes to worst, I'll just use this canoe when I have someone with me and then get something else to use solo.