Upside down or right side up? I asked that question when I was ready to transport my kayak and nearly everyone said deck side up but I never got a reason for it. My reasons for transporting mine upside down (I didn’t have a cockpit cover were), in a heavy rain you would have the mess of draining the kayak. This happened to me and two other guys on a trip to Canada that collapse the car roof. Coming back from a trip last fall I got into some heavy rains that could have caused me some problems if my kayak had been deck side up.

John