Odyssey wrote:
I concur Jim, getting to and from the paddling experience is the least enjoyable part of the trip, but it IS part of the trip. If only we lived next to all our fondest activities, but alas some of us don't. I just drove 5 hours to canoe trip. Still, I consider myself lucky.
Okay, so I've altered a bit of y tie down routine. I bought new NRS straps. well worth the pennies. Unlike the cheap straps I used before these new ones don't stretch in the rain. And they cinch down really tight! (Cams, NOT ratchets.) Here's my adjustment. From the cam buckle on the canoe the strap passes over the canoe belly, under the opposite roof rack, back over the canoe belly, under the canoe and OVER the thwart, under the near roof rack and back out to the cam buckle; thereby cinching one thwart tightly down to the roof rack as well as the overall canoe belly. I do this on each alternate side, so now the canoe is really tight. Make sense?
Yes! If I understand you correctly, you have used one of the 2 primary tiedowns to not only tie down the canoe to the roofrack, but also to tie one thwart to one crossbar, to prevent the canoe from sliding forward or rearward. This sounds like a good way to not only save time,but also at least one tiedown (the 3rd tiedown that would normally have been used to secure the thwart to the roof rack crossbar)!
But, I think you might (?) have meant to post this on the OTHER thread I currently have running. This thread is the older one that focused strictly on the roof tiedowns.
Jim G