It started with me getting my better half a kayak for his birthday. About a month later he got me one for my birthday. We now have a matching pair of Perception Pescador Pro 10 kayaks, purchased at REI. This blog is intended to just keep track of equipment and paddling location information.
We are hauling them on a Honda Ridgeline. We already had Yakima towers, so upgraded to 78 inch round bars. Added Malone Downloader J Style carriers. We destroyed our Yak bar end caps getting the towers off our smaller bars and Yakima was great and sent out replacements at no charge. We also added a windshield fairing (photo pre fairing) and that really cuts down the noise.
For storage, we initially purchased COR Board Racks Paddle Board Storage slings, opened them and decided they were not "Beefy" enough and didn't like the attachments to secure to the barn framing and returned them. We made our own out of chain, flat webbing tiedowns with camlocks, foam pipe insulation, and zip ties.
This is the current version of the hanging system. We started with only the webbing and the kayaks had a tendency to slide, so we added foam pip insulation and zip tied those in place. It is much easier as the foam holds the webbing open a little better and the kayaks do not slip at all. Loving our homemade system. We are using Riverside Cartop Carriers HD Utility Straps for the base webbing. Each color is a different length and we own multiple sizes. Pictured below are the green ones. We love these straps - they are great for tying down anything in the truck. Just a note, the one's we have have really heavy duty beefy rubber plastic behind the camlock. The last time we stopped by REI, they changed to a flimsy fabric layer. We have not purchased any of those, but that same kind of fabric is on the tiedown straps that came with the Malone Kayak carriers, so we'll see how they hold up over time. We've purchased some of our straps from REI and some off Amazon.
And that is our basic set up. Let Kayaking commence!
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