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KBBS Archive 30,000
Re: Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted?
Posted By: Greg Stamer
Date: Friday, 16 June 2000, at 11:26 a.m.
Hello Chuck,
Many owners of traditional skin-on-frame kayaks carry them upside down. This is done for many of the reasons already mentioned plus for strength. The gunwales are the main structural element of a skinboat and most of the deck surface on a Greenland design is flat.
For plastic and glass kayaks, I have always heard that it is usually less stressful to carry them on their side and you can load more boats. Most plastic sea kayaks have very little support along the keel and this prevents them from deforming under the hot sun and tight rigging. Side loading tends to be more popular with the whitewater crowd. I only do this with sea kayaks or surf kayaks when loading more than three boats, it is simply faster and easier for me to load them upright on the cradles when transporting only a boat or two.
Greg Stamer
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