"Mitch Catrett" > wrote:
> Mitch Catrett wrote:
>> Seahag wrote:
>>
>>> I need a roof rack so I can take our canoe camping this
>>> year. We haven't canoed since I got the TJ because I
>>> refuse to camp out of the Astro...it just doesn't look
>>> as kewl in the woods! Anyway, I'm leaning towards
>>> getting the Congo Cage. Anyone have experience with
>>> that or other solutions? Our canoe is 14' X 44" near as
>>> I can recall so I don't know if I'd need the utility
>>> crossbars as well...
>>>
>>> Seahag
>>>
>>>
>> I have put one the Olympic Generation II rack on my TJ
>> with Yakima load bars with the little canoe brackets. I
>> can put the bars on with or without the basket. I take
>> the two far outside stringer lose and bolt the bars down
>> without the basket and flip over the 4 side eye bolts and
>> bolt the bars down with the basket. As far as noise goes
>> it is not really any more noisy with the canoe that it is
>> with the rack and basket (that means you can't hear
>> anyway). I am working on a faring for the whole thing to
>> see if I can reduce the volume some. The spread is
>> enough to easily support the canoe and unless it rips of
>> the rack which is bolted to the windshield and the frame
>> it is not going anywhere. My canoe is long (16 foot
>> Kevlar). I have transported it a couple hundred miles
>> one way on trips before with no mishaps or loosening of
>> anything. I love the Olympic rack design but don't must
>> like the quality of the materials. It started rusting
>> almost immediatelly in some places. Wire brush and
>> rustoleum seems to have fixed the problem though.
> Oh yeah, you just though you got bad gas mileage before.
> The canoe really makes it bad.

I'm sorry to hear about that rack rusting, it was the other
system I was looking at. I like the Congo because it is a
bit lower than the others. I reckon I can afford the gas
once a year to go canoe/camping!

Seahag