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Do you have brackets or load stops or something like that on the Rhino bars? Any concern about fore/aft slipping? Here are the Leitner load stops
Where do you attach the bow / stern lines, or do you run it under and through? The Leitner bars come with a rubber gasket on top of the bars.
Rear to the hitch, front to the recovery points (bridle). I typically have to adjust the canoe position so the front lines do not contact to hood/bonnet.
Yeah I was wondering about that - under the hood vs recovery points - or if you guys had seen other clever options. Obviously I want to avoid strap rubbing - but a trailer seems like a total waste and PITA for a canoe less than 40 lbs - even though the Grenadier is pretty tall. It seems doable.
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It’s only 16.5 kg- and the Leitner bars stick up 5 cm and are 25 cm from the back of the roofline. There’s a rubber gasket on top of the Leitner bars. I THINK with a tandem canoe I should be able to push it forward without rollers - but not positive. I think that I can just push it far enough forward to hit the tipping point / center of mass - and then step up on the bumper to push it all the way forward. I know people with Sprinter vans use those tipping rails with sliders, but I don’t think that would be necessary on the Grenadier. I’m not sure - just thinking about it and wondering if people have experience with it before I fork over $8k on a canoe. I just REALLY would like to avoid a trailer.
That’s one beefy canoe
he won the lightest concrete canoe competition.
Late 90’s Mad River Royalex. So yeah, beefy, but 1100 lbs. payload. Probably should sell it for a lighter boat.
You can get 1100 lbs payload in a Swift Prospector or Keewaydin - at half the weight. Canadian Black Magic and Dark Arts at work.
lol.. 30 years ago my father put a small winch on the front of a van roof rack, and tugged his small pontoon fishing boat up a couple sections of pipe. worked like a charm.
