BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - Thule, Yakima, or factory racks for the Subaru Forester?

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Any opinions about what sort of rack system to use with the Subaru
Forester? I have given up on my Talon Rack (side-loading).

We carry our Pungoes (Pungi, Pungoi, whatever) on Thule Hull-a-Port J-racks.
They clamp right onto the factory rack; support the boats at about 48
pounds apiece; and have given us no trouble at [ahem] 70-80 or so (keeping
up with traffic and all that).

One benefit is that I had an old Thule rack for a long-gone Taurus; replaced
the towers with those for my Corolla; and the Hull-a-Ports move over with
just a couple of plastic spacers for the square bars. The Yakima racks
would not work with the factory bars, as I recall.