> I should probably have mentioned that I'd like to be able to load the
> boats on the Suburban while pulling a camping trailer, which makes a kayak
> trailer fairly impractical. I don't see a good way to load additional
> boats on the camping trailer, either. Nick, I can see your four-kayak
> arrangement clearly. Yakima's "stacker" is contoured to boats.
> Thule's isn't. Is it time for me to consider Thule a blind alley and get a
> Yakima rack? Mike

You could use your existing rack system and some Thule Stackers and pad the stackers with contured minicell foam. This could give you a perfect fit with the stackers that you would not get with the Yakima Stackers.

Mike Hanks