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If your discomfort is from your feet/ankles rubbing against the boat (friction) then another easy fix is to buy a rubber-backed bathroom...

I load my solo clipper onto my pick-up canopy using a small carpet with a non-slide bottom laid on the rear of canopy. Canoe slides...

The step stool arrived and is just what the ER doctor ordered! Wide steps are much easier than the narrow ladder rungs, without the...

Many racks allow you to pop the endcap off one end on the front bar and insert a hockey stick (except my new #^#%&$ Thule wing-bars) so...

Wee bit o' fog coming off the water this morning.

Of course. That goes without saying. Those words get you far. I’m talking about the fun of chatting with people in a friendly way...

"This would be a much less enjoyable trip if I didn’t have functional French." I've found the real universal language spoken there is...

thanks for the alert. blue green algae seems to be more common all of the time. It kills a lot of dogs.

"Scientists were looking for the presence of Naegleria fowleri, a type of amoeba that is the main cause of primary amoebic...

Don't worry about the crossbars. I have Yakimas, and I've been doing the slide over for many years, mostly with solo boats with aluminum...

70” bars on my Explorer. The problem is the boat is 35” wide, and the carriers are near the end, so I have to lift it about 3” over the...

When I owned a VW Eurovan I usually provided the trip vehicle carrying two canoes, gear and four paddlers. I would load my canoe without...

Don't know if you'd be willing to change out your front bar rack but on mine, I can bring the bar out past the truck about 3'. Having...

That's about the only way to do it with a heavy boat, or a very tall roof rack. Then hand over hand overhead lift and slide up and...

Can you place one end on the bars behind your car? I'd so, do that and just slide the rear end forward. I even do that on my truck pop...