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milkman wrote:If you can find a used Dagger Phantom that would be a great boat for her.

I'm her size and Phantom is my favorite boat.

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I caught Rock Creek in Washington DC yesterday at a nice beefy level. Very nice Class III paddling!

Dagger Dimension:, the instigators of this outing, Dave and Carol. At this flow, this section of the Salmon isn't technical, just big "water", and we quickly got into the habit of quartering the waves, which meant a much drier ride. Dave felt this would be a good practice run, if somebody were thin...

Julie I knew you used bow and stern lines I also you know your knott good enought to where you can use real ropes and have to use girls ropes ( Cam straps). I also have seen you all over the place.I was even lookin for you as I drove to Mexico with my boat, but it goes back to my original question ...

They also can take a lick. Gabi got rear ended by someone running 55 while she was stopped at a light. She walked away from it but is having some serious back problems now. The back of the car crumpled up to the passenger compartment which remained intact. Bill I'm sorry to hear that Gabi is having...

Julie think about what you wrote. You can carry a 16 foot canoe with no spread on your racks. If you were drivin down the road and one of the rack came off your truck hit the road and bounced off a bridge into the river what would you do? Leave the boat layin along side the road ? No, you would put...

I'd add another vote for a Forester. I haul two (side by side) to three (third on top of the side by side) solo canoes every weekend on mine and occasionally two tandems (one stacked leaning against the other). My Forester is a 2005 and was pictured in American Whitewater with three canoes on top. ...

lot of the posts are stating the gas mileage while driving with X boats loaded and/or how they handled the load. A couple of RX touring boats and camping gear make a difference, esp. if you have a 5 hour drive to good water like some of us peeps do. I'd throw a couple of boats on a Metro to go 10 m...

Just a note, have seen a lot of post saying they put X amount of boats on top of specific vehicles--any vehicle can carry multiple boats as long as you have the long bars for the rack. Its not a matter of the vehicle being capable of hauling the boats, its a matter of the rack being capable of haul...

Julie, Check out the Toyota Rav 4. Gabi had one hauled 2 oc's and slept in it. Not sure about the instrument fitting tho. Bill Hi Bill! I went to the Toyota dealer today to try the Highlander and came home liking the RAV4 better than the Highlander. The 4 cyl RAV4 gets $4500 on the Cash for Clunker...

sbroam wrote: So, I'm not the only one who researches racks *before* buying a vehicle!

You should have seen my jaw drop when I climbed up on top of the Outback and saw the new rack. IT SUCKS!!!!!

How about a new Forester, do they have the same rails on the roof as the Outback? Or can you get an outback w/o the factory rails? I have an older Forester and like it. Plenty of room to sleep in the back for me and I'm 6'2". As for bar spread, i used to have an extended cab Ford Ranger and carried...

I just traded in an old Isuzu trooper using the cash for clunkers program and got a clean diesel 2009 VW Jetta Sportwagen. It is rated 30 mpg city and 41 hw. Has factory racks and I just picked up Yakima crossbars to use with it. Rack is rated at 165 lbs, so even two large canoes should be fine. No...

Do you want another truck or would you like an AWD car/wagon for ease of loading? Lots of trucks out there and there is always the Volvo/VW/ Audi/Mercedes wagons. I'm game for either a truck or an AWD car/wagon. Our other car is a 2008 Outback and when I shopped for that vehicle I looked at the VW ...