I also favor the putting one end of the boat on and then lifting the
other, especially with canoes. The "clean and jerk" from my younger
days has disappeared. I have even loaded canoes from the back end of
the rack on my truck like a Hully Roller and "walked" it up the back
bar until it was on. The only easier way was to talk someone into
loading it for you

jaybird

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