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Old 07-14-2018, 08:51 AM   #1
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Do you carry a kayak?

We just finished our first trip with our SLX 245 RLS and I wish I had brought my kayak with me. I have a 12 foot kayak and an F150 with a 6.5 foot bed. I had hoped to be able to carry the kayak in the bed with the tailgate up but it is just too long.

Does anyone else bring a kayak along? How do you carry yours?
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No Kayak, but I do carry a 12 foot folding "PortaBoat". I would like to get a roof rack. For now with our HTT, we open the bunk and shove it in. It travels nicely on the floor.

Sorry for the dark picture, we were just getting it ready to be washed. I do not have a picture of it in the TT.

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Old 07-14-2018, 09:16 AM   #3
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We just finished our first trip with our SLX 245 RLS and I wish I had brought my kayak with me. I have a 12 foot kayak and an F150 with a 6.5 foot bed. I had hoped to be able to carry the kayak in the bed with the tailgate up but it is just too long.

Does anyone else bring a kayak along? How do you carry yours?
We carry three, my 12' kayak goes on top of the truck. I need longer bars to put my wife's up there too.
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We carry three, my 12' kayak goes on top of the truck. I need longer bars to put my wife's up there too.
What rack is that?
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I carry 2 Ocean Kayaks on my truck when towing our fifth wheel.

My setup is Yakima.
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Yakima makes a rack that will fit on a ext. cab and holds 2 kayaks or one kayak and a bike. Works great.
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Old 07-14-2018, 11:03 AM   #7
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What rack is that?
It's a Yakima. It's the Baseline towers and round bars. I use the Boatloader to get it up there by myself from the side.

I put hers inside the camper and my sons Heron Jr goes in the bed.
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We already look like the Clampetts.
I wish we could.
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Old 07-14-2018, 05:53 PM   #9
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Yes, I carry my Hobie i11s in the back of my tow van. It's an inflatable so it folds up nicely and stows in the van. Avoids the need for a roof rack, etc. and safely locked inside for security. I know this doesn't help with how to carry a rigid kayak but high quality inflatables with the drop-stitch floors are great boats for fishing or cruising.

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Old 07-14-2018, 05:55 PM   #10
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I have a Thule Xporter Pro truck rack system, on that I carry a 12’ kayak and 2 10’ SUP.

It does take some investment in racking to accommodate large/long items like kayaks and SUP ... I probably have $700-$800 into my rack system including kayak saddles. I think with good ratchet straps you could get away without the saddles and save a $150
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Old 07-14-2018, 06:28 PM   #11
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Sure. Always. We take two 18 foot sea kayaks or a 18 foot canoe.

They are always with us. As you see from the signature we have traveled a lot of miles with ours.
They fit on a Yakima rack that we have had for thirty years. When we change vehicles we just have to change the feet. Expensive off the bat, pennies per use thirty years later.

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Yes, I carry my Hobie i11s in the back of my tow van. It's an inflatable so it folds up nicely and stows in the van. Avoids the need for a roof rack, etc. and safely locked inside for security. I know this doesn't help with how to carry a rigid kayak but high quality inflatables with the drop-stitch floors are great boats for fishing or cruising.

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We bought an inflatable recently and plan to travel with it next summer.
I would love to have a hard sided, but we're out of room!
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My Yakima system has also been on several trucks. I had to buy new feet when I got my latest truck with no gutter rails. I recently had a hully Roller go bad and Yakima gladly sent me a new one at no charge.
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I added a set of ladder bars on my Silverado. That made it easy to carry one or both of our Kayacs. I packed one to the Gulf coast and twice to winter trips thru Ark and Texas. After it got used only once or twice on previous trips, I left both at home for our last trip.

The ladder racks cost less than $150 and were easy to install and remove. I left them on the truck for a couple years but they get in the way sometimes and you can't go thru an automated car wash.
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Thule Racks

I have a Thule rack system on the roof of the truck with kayak saddles that carry them up on edge. Only drawbacks are lifting them up there if you aren’t as tall as I am and the wind noise through the straps while at highway speeds.
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Ours ride on the top of our SUV. We sometimes take two vehicles so we can put our kayaks in the river and float down to a spot where we then get into the other vehicle to go back to get the SUV.
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The ladder racks cost less than $150 and were easy to install and remove. I left them on the truck for a couple years but they get in the way sometimes and you can't go thru an automated car wash.
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I used to leave mine up for the season but I'm to the point where I will take mine off between trips. I marked the roof where they go to make it easier to re-install.
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We use an Access Adarac to haul our kayaks.

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We have a Yakima system. A bar w/ towers sits on top of the cab and an Outdoorsman system sits on the bed top rails (two bar holders and a round bar, round bar is purchased separately. We carry two Tarpon 100s. Enables us to take the kayaks whenever we go to a river for paddling fun, and have the full bed for stuff.
NOTE: The pics below show a Tarpon 120, which is a 12 footer. Usually we take the Tarpon 100s, which are 10 footers.
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Hi, we always carry our kayaks. Our explorer came with roof racks and we just use MEC foam kayak supports and tie downs.
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