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Re: Other: gas mileage while car topping?
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 6/5/2008, 9:26 am
In Response To: Re: Other: gas mileage while car topping? (Doug Smith)

: hey bill,

: I threw out the mag, but I'm 99% sure of what I wrote above. Kayaks flat on
: the roof rack if you can, with cockpit down.

Well, the Greenlander is on the roof, right side up, would take some intesting racks to hold a greenland style kayak level upside down. Dead flat rear deck and a radically sloped cockpit means there's maybe a 4" difference in depth between where it would attach on the front vs. the rear. My Yost SOF is the same shape, but it's really too long to roof-top at just over 19'.

Actually wish I'd thought about this routine earlier, the trailer would have been easier, and I could have taken 2 or 3 with.

Bill H.

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Other: gas mileage while car topping?
Bill Hamm -- 6/2/2008, 5:57 pm
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Tom Yost -- 6/9/2008, 9:39 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/23/2008, 2:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/24/2008, 4:53 am
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Lucky -- 6/3/2008, 10:27 am
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george jung -- 6/3/2008, 2:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/4/2008, 12:41 am
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Sodbuster -- 6/4/2008, 11:20 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/4/2008, 2:23 pm
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Sodbuster -- 6/4/2008, 3:19 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 6/3/2008, 9:08 am
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Bj�rn Thomasson -- 6/4/2008, 5:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/5/2008, 9:30 am
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Bjorn Thomasson -- 6/5/2008, 10:56 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 6/5/2008, 9:43 am
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Tim -- 6/3/2008, 8:49 am
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Doug Smith -- 6/3/2008, 2:02 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/3/2008, 5:03 pm
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Doug Smith -- 6/4/2008, 6:08 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/5/2008, 9:26 am
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John Monroe -- 6/5/2008, 3:51 am
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John Monroe -- 6/3/2008, 1:11 am
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Kim -- 6/3/2008, 5:38 am
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John Monroe -- 6/4/2008, 3:38 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/3/2008, 1:48 am
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