: Specially on the wood boats, I prefer to carry them bottom down on saddles on
: the roof. Easier by far to load and unload and the bottom is the strongest
: part of the boat.

: I have carried them on upright carriers but you then have to lift the entire
: boat onto and off of the carriers. Now unless I'm using the trailer with
: multiple boats on it, or have more than two boats on the roof, I only use
: these for whitewater boats that are difficult to secure in the f

: Hatches. I now do all my hatches with internal bungies with a hand cut
: (bandsaw) eye that's epoxied to the hatch cover and the keel.

: Bill H.

If you haul by trailer, then, do you use verticle craddles or those which hold the boat hullside down? And if you have a preference to the make....