: Bow and stern straps
: Bow and stern straps

: Which is better a cheapie roof rack with a board, Yakima, Thule????
: Bow and stern straps
: Bow and stern straps

: How do you really know your roof rack is tight enough?
: Bow and stern straps
: Bow and stern straps
: Never ever trust only the roof rack. Kayaks are long they can
: wiggle with enough leverage to jerk any roof rack off any car.
: (with a truck rack or straps running through your car windows
: you're a lot safer.)

: I find I sometimes forget to attach my stern strap if I'm really
: tired after a hard paddle. Things like this, I find the only
: effective method to develop
: an obsessive compulsive disorder, check, then check then check
: again.

: I won't soon forget the bicycle store owner. We owe it to him to be
: safe not just with our 'yaks but who they could land on.

: Did I mention
: Bow and stern straps
: Bow and stern straps
: Bow and stern straps

Just remember that bow and stern straps are safeties, not intended to hold the boat down to the top of the car. There's a thread recently on another forum where someone grossly overtightened these straps and cracked their abs kayak in several places. I've seen fiberglass kayaks split in two doing this.

Bill H.