Best Way to Protect Paddles - Car
 

Any suggestion on what to use to protect my kayak paddles on top of the
car (Rack) ? Bag ? hard case ?

I sometimes put my (Nicer ) paddle in a hard shell gun case . It gets
some curiosity at the airport but that is all. I tie my paddles to the
top of the car when traveling and I can't put it in the car.
Note... Don't use bungies on paddles on the roof. I lost two paddles at
high speed and had to hike back to recover them. They were scratched
but otherwise no worse for the increadible journey i saw in my rear
view. I was luckey that traffic was very light.

I try to keep the paddles inside the car as they can vanish.

I have a buddy who lost a $400.00 paddle off his suv. Thought about
investing in one of those thule or yakima hardshell cases. But they take
up allot of room. Not sure how the thule hullivator will work with paddles.

wrote:
I sometimes put my (Nicer ) paddle in a hard shell gun case . It gets
some curiosity at the airport but that is all. I tie my paddles to the
top of the car when traveling and I can't put it in the car.
Note... Don't use bungies on paddles on the roof. I lost two paddles at
high speed and had to hike back to recover them. They were scratched
but otherwise no worse for the increadible journey i saw in my rear
view. I was luckey that traffic was very light.

I try to keep the paddles inside the car as they can vanish.

It just a thought - use alpine ski bags. You can carry them thru
airports and put them on top of your car. Hmmm.

Drew Cutter wrote:
I have a buddy who lost a $400.00 paddle off his suv. Thought about
investing in one of those thule or yakima hardshell cases. But they take
up allot of room. Not sure how the thule hullivator will work with paddles.

wrote:

I sometimes put my (Nicer ) paddle in a hard shell gun case . It gets
some curiosity at the airport but that is all. I tie my paddles to the
top of the car when traveling and I can't put it in the car.
Note... Don't use bungies on paddles on the roof. I lost two paddles at
high speed and had to hike back to recover them. They were scratched
but otherwise no worse for the increadible journey i saw in my rear
view. I was luckey that traffic was very light.

I try to keep the paddles inside the car as they can vanish.

On 30-Jul-2005, Drew Cutter wrote:

Any suggestion on what to use to protect my kayak paddles on top of the
car (Rack) ? Bag ? hard case ?

What do you mean by protect? - against theft or against damage (like UV, dirt,
rock chips etc?)

Mike

Rocks chips

Michael Daly wrote:
On 30-Jul-2005, Drew Cutter wrote:


Any suggestion on what to use to protect my kayak paddles on top of the
car (Rack) ? Bag ? hard case ?


What do you mean by protect? - against theft or against damage (like UV, dirt,
rock chips etc?)

Mike

Drew Cutter wrote:

Rocks chips

If air above the roads you drive on is so rock strewn as to pose a
threat to a paddle above your roof, don't you end up replacing your
windshield every couple of days?

It's a paddle, man, not a Limoges. It gets hit on rocks every time you
use it. Chill.

Michael Daly wrote:

On 30-Jul-2005, Drew Cutter wrote:

Any suggestion on what to use to protect my kayak paddles on top of the
car (Rack) ? Bag ? hard case ?

What do you mean by protect? - against theft or against damage (like
UV, dirt, rock chips etc?)

UV? On the drive to the put in? Give me a break.

Steve

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Steve Cramer
Athens, GA

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|I sometimes put my (Nicer ) paddle in a hard shell gun case . It gets
| some curiosity at the airport but that is all. I tie my paddles to
the
| top of the car when traveling and I can't put it in the car.
| Note... Don't use bungies on paddles on the roof. I lost two paddles
at
| high speed and had to hike back to recover them. They were scratched
| but otherwise no worse for the increadible journey i saw in my rear
| view. I was luckey that traffic was very light.
SNIP

The traffic was also lucky, I bet you would have felt silly asking the
State Trooper for your paddle back, as soon as they had the blood and
brains of some unsuspecting motorist wiped off them.

On 30-Jul-2005, Steve Cramer wrote:

UV? On the drive to the put in? Give me a break.

For some trips, the put-in is days away. I know some folks who leave
their stuff on the roof of the car for days at a time in the driveway.

Mike

On 30-Jul-2005, Drew Cutter wrote:

Rocks chips

I wouldn't worry about that. The odds of getting hit by
a rock chip that would do any damage is slight.

Mike