Bringing kayak with you...
I tow with a pickup that has a 6.5' bed and am thinking about getting a hard-sided kayak---preferably a tandem kayak---to bring with us. I was thinking it would just need to be strapped down in th...
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JD and Beastlet wrote:texasAUtiger wrote:
I tow with a pickup that has a 6.5' bed and am thinking about getting a hard-sided kayak---preferably a tandem kayak---to bring with us.
I was thinking it would just need to be strapped down in the bed with a good bit of it hanging out over the tailgate.
Do any of you do this? How does it work? Have any size suggestions for how long of a kayak this would work for?
As it happens, we have a new-to-us 2013 F-150 with the 6.5' box. The truck came with a tonneau cover and we wanted that to be usable with a kayak rack installed - that meant a stake pocket rack. Dissatisfied with the commercially available options, we made our own - it uses Thule cradles and carries our three kayaks perfectly. Installation, loading, unloading and removal are all simple.
You can see my build thread here on RV.net... Stake Pocket Kayak Rack.
Nice and helpful write up. Thank you for taking the time to post this so that anyone who wants to copy it can easily.
