Show us pictures of your canoe vehicle with boat(s)

[scoutergriz]

No worries. I’ll just have to load up one or more of my 3 canoes that I do have.

There may be one already but there should be a post for the following: How do you answer your wife when she asks, “how many boats do you have?”

I just say "not as many as you do jigsaws"....
then I run...

 

[scoutergriz]

Test fitting on to long of a truck when taking the trailer.
Need to block front cross bar up 2 1/4”

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have you tried shifting the back rack forward a bit? I find that simply shifting it farther from the stern stem adds about an inch or more lift to the bow...

 

[Fourbtgait]

Actually I hadn’t thought of it @scoutergriz, thanks, I’ll look into that.

 

[scoutergriz]

I am lucky, I married just that woman. She is just as supportive of tools also, but I am working on thinning down the tools I own and I don’t do too much buying anymore.
Jim

me too, I think she was more excited about my latest boat than I was, but then I realized that it was because she always took the newer, lighter, prettier boat and left me with my choice of ugly old beaters

 

[Fourbtgait]

that pup looks like he's saying "put the da** camera down and get the boat on the water..."

Actually we had just gotten off the lake when i thought of this thread.

 

[memaquay]

My new found Glamping/base camping style of "canoeing" has caused me to reassess my canoe transport method and spend a lot more money, once again.

In this pic, you can see that my old truck bed racks don't really work with the portable Hilton. I had to move the canoe so far forward that I felt unsafe at highway speeds. So once again, I dove deep into the inter webs, researching roof racks for a 2024 Ford Ranger. The result is shown below:

The set up is by Yakima, seems solid enough, took a bit to set up, but so far so good. This spot is in the middle of nowhere on an old forestry road. There is a very good walleye lake just a kilometre away that we fished the next day. Also, it was the first week the fire ban was off, so that was really nice.

 

[lowangle al]

Looks good Mem. It appears you loaded it from the back of the truck. Can you load it from the front so the trailer isn't in the way?