This instructable will show you how to make a car-top rack for hauling your kayak for about ten dollars. I bought two pool noodles from the dollar store. Then I used a sharp knife to cut them to that each piece was approximately as long as the width of my car's roof. Now just put the noodles on top of your car's roof.
They're not attached to anything, so try to do this out of the wind. Lift your kayak and position it on top of the pool noodles. If they slide around, it's pretty easy to lift one end of the kayak and reposition the noodles where you want them. With three noodles, you obviously want to put one toward the front, one in the middle, and one toward the back of your car. Make sure the kayak is balanced well so it doesn't start sliding off of the car roof before you have a chance to strap it down.
I bought two straps. One came from the dollar store and is just a piece of nylon webbing with a buckle at one end. You simply slide one end of the strap through the buckle and it is held in place by friction. It's very easy to use, but I'm not sure I would trust it to hold very tightly if put under a lot of stress.
The other strap is the ratchet type where you feed one end into a slot in the ratchet gear arrangement, then crank up the ratchet. This is a pretty sturdy item that cost about five dollars at the local home improvement store. When you ratchet it down, you can feel pretty sure that it's going to stay ratcheted until you push the buttons to loosen it. To stap the kayak to the roof, open both passenger doors. Put the business ends of the straps on the passenger seat behind the driver's seat.
Throw one end of the straps over the roof, go around and toss that end through the passenger door. Then attach the strap to the buckle or ratchet and tighten until the straps are good and taut. Not too much or you'll dent the roof. The bungee cord is not there to hold the kayak in place, just to make sure it stays pointed in the right direction. I could probably skip this step, but I like to keep an eye on the kayak while I'm driving and this makes it easy to do so.
Just to be safe, I put a bungee cord on the rear of the kayak as well. It's easy to hook it from the bottom of the car's frame to a handle on the kayak. I do tend to reach back and check the tightness of the nearest strap every couple of minutes.
The only thing you have to get used to is that sometimes, depending on your driving speed and the speed and direction of the wind, your kayak will "sing" as the straps and other parts vibrate.
It's actually somewhat soothing in a zen kind of way. Tip 1 year ago. To stop the buzzing sound just put a twist or two in the strap on both sides. And you should use something other than bungee cords on the ends. I was worried about having to actually put hardware on my Cruze, but this is SO much better.
Thank you! Anyone using rachet straps on there yak to the point that the straps have a high pitch ping are overdoing it but better safe then sorry I guess. Reply 3 years ago. Pro is right. Bungee is a joke, and so is a regular buckle. What you need is a a strap with spring-loaded cam buckle. I agree with the other comments here that proper bow and stern tie-downs are required. But I want to stress the point that UNLESS you know exactly what you're doing with ratchet straps its waaay too easy to over-tighten them and damage your kayak.
Cam straps are the kind with a metal buckle that uses pressure to keep the strap from slipping out, you can pull it through one way and it won't go back until you press the buckle. Use Cam straps to secure a canoe or kayak to a vehicle. But no matter what, please be safe and make sure your load is secured properly. Just don't be driving in front of this guy on the interstate or his boat will be in your back seat if you have to brake quickly.
Reply 5 years ago. Sorry, but this is absolutely irresponsible and unsafe. If you have to brake hard, your load will fly forward off the car. No way your bungees will hold a projectile at 70 miles per hour, much less 35 miles per hour. No way a dollar store webbing strap can hold that kind of force.
Your 'cheep' alternative could kill an innocent bystander when your load flies off the car. Instructables MUST begin to implement a policy that if a topic is unsafe, possibly deadly, it must be removed. Reply 5 years ago on Step 7. There is nothing wrong with this Instructable, the kayak is not going to turn into a deadly guided missile seeking out innocent bystanders to impale.
DareR, I was nice, you were the one who thinks I was dropped on my head as a child I saw a kayak fly off a car that was involved in a high speed accident. The car was hit head-on, the boat flexed under the WEBBING not bungie elastic straps, and flew off the top of the car into oncoming traffic.
The passenger in the other car was killed and the child was severely injured, airlifted to the hospital. I saw it happen, and ever since, I have been on a campaign for people to properly secure their boats. Creativity and being frugal does not trump safety. If you do some research, you will discover that the major brands of boat carriers require front and rear tie downs. Every Yakima boat rack comes with a warning. Bow and stern tiedown lines must be used!
So, I don't know where you are getting your information. I make no apologies for correcting an Instructable and I maintain my position that the website should remove potentially deadly or illegal Instructables. Just who the hell deciedes to rig up a kayak like this and go 70mph? That's plain irresponsible.
I put a canoe on top a friends car like this, took backroads, and never eent over No problems at all. So if you aren't too bright about what's gonna work and what's just reckless, forget the kayak.
This Instructable is dangerous and irresponsible. In the event you have a collision at 70 mph or 50 mph or even 35 mph, your boat will become a projectile. Remember, Newton's Law of Motion - "Things in motion stay in motion until acted upon by an outside force. Your straps from the dollar store are not strong enough to hold under this kind of force if they have plastic buckles.
That's why Thule and Yakima have metal buckles. What strength are the straps capable of holding? Webbing straps have ratings for a reason. Hint - no rolling. There is no way that you can tighten these straps enough to keep this from sliding. If you have an accident, the straps will slide around in the window opening.
Your tie-downs front and back MUST be secure. Bungie cords are not strong enough for this. The handle you tied the bungie Diy Canoe Rack For Car Zoom cords to - is Diy Canoe Rack For Car Cars it meant to be a tie down? Or is it only a plastic handle with plastic points holding it to the boat?
Do you know the weight that your roof is capable of holding? If tightening down a ratchet strap is denting your roof, consider researching the weight your roof was designed to carry. I'm not trying to be mean, but this whole idea is just dangerous.
You are not only putting yourself at risk, your car and boat is at risk, too. My main concern is the danger of the other drivers on the road. Please redesign this. Reply 6 years ago on Step 4. You do need stronger straps. Bungee cords are not meant to hold weight like this. A set of ratchet straps, with each strap rated to hundreds of pounds, can be purchased for bucks. Using 4 of them will do, depending on the length.
You need to put two straps through the front and back of your car door frames where the 'armpit' of the curve is so they will not move if force is applied to them and then fed over top of your boat, or through METAL grab handles if you have them.
You need to put straps not bungees front and rear, attached to points on the frame, not on your plastic bumper. Make an x with front and rear straps, as the rear hold the force of a quick stop in the event of an accident, and the front has to withstand 70mph winds for a long period of time on interstate travel, so double up where you can.
Again feed these through solid grab handles. If you strap your kayak correctly, round or square insulation does not matter because the foam should only be there to keep the kayak from scratching your car, and the force per square inch on your roof panel and your kayak plastic should be minimal.
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