need help loading your yak??

ok folks, i just picked up the newest copy of canoe and kayak magazine [ march 08 ] and while browsing thru it, i came across this loading assistant; www.rollerloader.com
 as i recall, somewhere on here i read of folks having trouble getting their yak up on the car top.....hoping this helps
Rich

Pretty fancy invention. This does work pretty well except for places where you have to park your car end to end w/ others. Some people also complain about wear on the bow or keel of their yaks because of the way you put the yak up. IMO the baddest of the bad is the Hull-a-vator. A lotta coin at $490... I've tried it out and it's a dream though.

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all i can say is...wow! no wonder they dominate the roof carry world..

Those rollers can be good unless you have a long truck with a long distance between racks, then you get to the center point of the Yak and it slams down on your brand new 1200 dollar canopy... No, it was Ralphs.. .
So he got the bar that slides out of the end of one the main crossbars and he has the grinding of the nose problem,  and it wants to slide off if its on anything but grass.

That hull a vator is sweeet!! and big dollars!!.   Strange coincidence but i was just talkin to Ralph earlier today about something that would raise it from the side. Even something motorized...hmm, yea, like those motorized boat loaders ive seen but moving some kind of cradle.I have a bad back, so im always trying to find ways to ease lifting chores.  This item might just be a good investment, of course i have homemade racks that these wouldn't mount to, so i'd have to get the whole darn setup.

CBY,

Have you tried craigslist ... http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/spo/565006464.html

Hah!   

-Allen

 .. touche!!