@momoffour Yes! Took four months but it finally arrived. We’ve been out twice so far. The kayak is great! We are still playing with the best method of getting it on and off the roof rack. We have an SUV and I’m short. We now have a folding step stool we bring with us.
Fantastic, @momofsenior1 – so glad you got to use it this year.
Getting off and on is becoming an issue for me. Also fairly short, and have been generally good at lifting over my head to get my end onto the rack, but I think I tore a bicep this summer, and having trouble with one arm. We have rollers on the back rack, so H is now setting his end (front of kayak) up on back rack, then grabbing back end from me (I can hold it fine, just hurts to lift up) and pushing the boat through the back rollers to land on the front one. No need for step stool though in the past when I went a few times without him (with another friend), I did use a step stool–we had a minivan then, so it was a lot higher.
I definitely love the roof rack rollers.
I hope you have loads of great times with yours. It’s been one of the joy of my middle-heading-to-older age to get on the water each summer (was 43 when I got it, 62 now and going strong.)
We were looking at rollers this weekend. I think it’s going to be a good purchase.
Great. I’m sure you will enjoy it
Some people I know who regularly put boats on top of their cars specifically did not want tall SUVs when buying their cars because of this reason. Some of them have chosen some of the few vehicles that are more like old style station wagons with long but low roofs (VW Golf Sportwagen, Buick Regal TourX, Volvo V60).
@ucbalumnus I told my H that the next car needs to be shorter!
@momofsenior1 congrats! DH just finished a stacking kayak rack for the garage; he made it out of PVC pipes and is putting locking casters on it. So excited to get my garage bay back, and it puts them at a great height for DH and DD to slide them into the truck bed.