Hi Ross,

Nice job on your kayak saddles! If I end up needing to carry more than 2 kayaks, I'll borrow your design. How many kayaks can you now handle at once? Considering your love of boat building, you will soon need a trailor complete with multi-level racks!

Randy

> Not wanting to shell out the $$ for another set of Thule H2GO saddles, and
> needing to hold more boats on the roof, I built a set of J-cradles to fit
> my existing rack. I modeled the shape after a kayak cradle I saw on a UK
> website. The cradles fit my Guillemot pretty well, but they won't hold my
> Panache (just not the right shape). I think that for the next set, I'll do
> more of a custom fitting. This was a fun, 1 week project, and I had most
> of the materials on hand. I think I had to spend about $10 for hardware.

> I have some pictures of the construction on my website (the 'Cradle' link
> in the table of contents). I don't yet have pictures of them in-use; I'll
> post them in a day or so. But, I loaded the boat this morning, and used
> the trip to work as a dry run to test cradles and they held the boat
> rock-solid.

> Ross