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canoe canoe canoe HOP
This weekend we drove over to Spokane to see my parents and to relieve them of a surplus canoe. Which meant, on the way back, we got to engage in some prime Americana: roadtrip in a smallish car with a canoe strapped to the roof.
I bought a kit and it worked pretty well. I only had to retension the ropes once, and that was in the first quarter of the trip. Except I think I'm going to replace all of it with ratcheting cargo straps. They won't stretch like the ropes and will be a lot faster to attach.
This was the driver's view as we went up into the Cascades. And by driver I mean me, because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vixyish is far too smart to get suckered into something like this.
All in all I'm very satisfied with how it worked, and I'm quite confident we can move the canoe around reliably using our car. Which is good, because there are very few bodies of water within portage distance. Now to get some practice and start moving up towards some of the river trips I'm interested in.
I bought a kit and it worked pretty well. I only had to retension the ropes once, and that was in the first quarter of the trip. Except I think I'm going to replace all of it with ratcheting cargo straps. They won't stretch like the ropes and will be a lot faster to attach.
This was the driver's view as we went up into the Cascades. And by driver I mean me, because
vixyish is far too smart to get suckered into something like this.All in all I'm very satisfied with how it worked, and I'm quite confident we can move the canoe around reliably using our car. Which is good, because there are very few bodies of water within portage distance. Now to get some practice and start moving up towards some of the river trips I'm interested in.
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