Tuesday, Jan 22, 2008 at 19:22
A matter of personal choice George. I did a fair bit of research and thought pretty hard on the decision. We carry the boat on the vehicle for following reasons:
To add gas strut boat rack to the CT would have cost about $2,500. I set up the vehicle to carry the boat for about $600.
If on the CT, it has to be taken off (ie rack disconnected and tipped over) every time we want to set up the CT for overnight stop. We were not keen on that.
Between boat tipped out one side and awning out the other, we would be pretty wide. We thought about some of our favourite
bush camp spots and reckon we would not have fitted into a couple of them with boat on CT. Even some caravan parks would be a bit tight (not that we stay in CPs very much).
When we first started to carry the boat we did not have a fold up trailer. It is possible to get by without one with boat on vehicle. Very difficult with boat on CT.
These are the main reasons. The key benefit I see in carrying on the CT is addiding the weight to the towed load rather tha the vehicle and not increasing the overall hight of the rig - so you can still fit in undercover car parks.
But as I said, a matter of choice. For us, on vehicle works best, but others are just as happy carrying on CT.
Norm C
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