On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:05:36 -0500, Dan Koretz
posted:

I have a glass boat (Impex Assateague) that I have been carrying with
old Yakima saddles. I have been looking at the Thule Hull-a-Port and
Yakima HullRaiser J-racks, which make it easier to put two boats on a
narrow car. Anyone have any idea whether one is better than the other,
or a reason not to use either of them?

I'm been using the Yakima J-cradles (I don't think they were called
"HullRaiser" when I bought them) to haul my Impex Montauk around for
three years and they've done very well.

However!

I've found that the distance between the bars holding the cradles is
important. My bars were about six feet apart on my pickup truck.
The Montauk, at around 16 feet, fit in the J-cradles very well. But
when I loaded up my new Arctic Hawk, which is two feet longer, and
therefore has a longer middle (wide) hull, the J-cradles were a
little too close together, so that the Hawk did not nestle quite as
snuggly as the other boat had. If I could have moved the cradles
farther apart they would have worked swell. I'm now working on a
whole new rack system and hope to get the bars a little farther
apart, but I think I'm going to keep the Montauk in the Js and put
the Hawk in the TLC/Roller combo.


Mike Soja