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Re: Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted?
By:Greg Stamer
Date: 6/16/2000, 11:26 am
In Response To: Re: Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted? (Chuck)

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

Messages In This Thread

Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted?
Chuck -- 6/15/2000, 10:52 am
Re: Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted?
Jim Reid -- 6/17/2000, 7:43 am
Re:downpour=down,as luggage carrier=up,
lee -- 6/15/2000, 10:18 pm
All mixed up
Robb -- 6/15/2000, 5:52 pm
Kayak transportation
Julie Kanarr -- 6/15/2000, 9:40 pm
Re: faith and kayak transportation
Dean Trexel -- 6/15/2000, 10:02 pm
Re: Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted?
Ken Finger -- 6/15/2000, 4:06 pm
Re: Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted?
Chuck -- 6/15/2000, 5:32 pm
Re: Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted?
Greg Stamer -- 6/16/2000, 11:26 am
Re: Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted?
Dale Frolander -- 6/15/2000, 3:14 pm
Re: Transporting kayaks:another ???
garland reese -- 6/16/2000, 9:44 am
Re: Transporting kayaks:another ???
Dean Trexel -- 6/16/2000, 12:51 pm
I carry it iverted all the time.
Brian Nystrom -- 6/16/2000, 9:26 am
Anyway plus another use:
mike allen ---> -- 6/15/2000, 3:50 pm
aren't we environmentalists?
Dean Trexel -- 6/15/2000, 8:54 pm
we environmentalists
mike allen ---> -- 6/16/2000, 4:20 pm
Re: Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted?
Dean Trexel -- 6/15/2000, 3:45 pm
Re: doggonit, you're right
Ross Leidy -- 6/15/2000, 3:34 pm
Re: Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted?
Rick -- 6/15/2000, 3:23 pm
Re: Transporting kayaks: upright or inverted? *Pic*
Ross Leidy -- 6/15/2000, 11:21 am
Re: bow/stern lines?
Jim Eisenmenger -- 6/15/2000, 12:43 pm
Re: bow/stern lines? *Pic*
Shawn B -- 6/15/2000, 2:40 pm
Re: bow/stern lines?
Ross Leidy -- 6/15/2000, 2:19 pm
Re: bow/stern lines?
Dean Trexel -- 6/15/2000, 1:31 pm
Re: bow/stern lines?
Larry Pfisterer -- 6/15/2000, 3:15 pm
Re: bow/stern lines?
Dean Trexel -- 6/15/2000, 3:38 pm