# kayak hauling
**URL:** https://forum.clcboats.com/t/kayak-hauling/42783
**Category:** Builder's Forum
**Created:** [January 11, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/kayak-hauling/42783 "2015-01-11T08:15:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Henry\_Cook](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Henry_Cook)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/kayak-hauling/42783/1 "2015-01-11T08:15:00Z")
Hi all. I drive a 2011 Ford Ranger with a glass cap on the back. I want to build an Expedition but I’m wondering how to haul it. Does anyone have a similar situation and how did you solve it? Pics would be great. Thanks.
Hank
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### Author:  [@David\_Poole](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/David_Poole)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/kayak-hauling/42783/2 "2015-01-12T10:03:39Z")
I use Yakima rack solutions to my carrying problems. The racks and accessories are modular and the parts fit interchangeably. I have reconfigured the system many times to go from car, to camper, and back to truck.
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### Author:  [@George\_Kaiser](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/George_Kaiser)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/kayak-hauling/42783/3 "2015-01-12T11:30:40Z")
A lot will depend upon how you want to mount the rack or use a tariler.
There are 2 major rack companies that have componet rack systems and hauling systems but the parts between the 2 companies are not interchangable. So you might want to consider which barnd you want to go with.
[Yakima fit my car](http://www.yakima.com/fit/Information)
[Thule Buyers Guide](http://www.thule.com/en-us/us/buyers-guide)
Because you have a pickup type vehicle there is no roof rack but Yamima makes a bed rack and a trailer.
Thule does not appear to have a mounting system for the 2011 Ford Ranger in any model.
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### Author:  [@David\_Poole](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/David_Poole)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/kayak-hauling/42783/4 "2015-01-12T11:41:57Z")
Pick up trucks with caps cannot always use the fit charts but have to be inventive with the components. For example, there is no fit chart for a Northstar pop up truck camper but you can find the mounts that screw through the roof that take the standard posts that support the bar and cradles. .
Also a cab mounted rack might not be listed but you can mix and match a typical rack mount with the door configuration and have one rack on the cab and a different style on the shell.
I have known some builders that just screwed or strapped wood cradles to the roof of the cap making a boat carrier. After all we are building "light" craft.
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If you can build boat figuring out the rack should be as easy.
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### Author:  [@David\_Poole](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/David_Poole)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/kayak-hauling/42783/5 "2015-01-12T12:04:54Z")
Note that if your top needs added support for a 92# boat on top it would be unusual. But you could add additional framing doublers inside. My truck uses the Yakima bed rack system. It is a full size pickup with slightly oversize tires. I need a step stool to get into the bed. (senior citizen) Either way it is my observation that after say a 25 mile paddle a 92 # boat seems like a 192# boat when you have to lift it up a great distance.
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### Author:  [@Curt\_Dennis](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Curt_Dennis)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/kayak-hauling/42783/6 "2015-01-12T12:51:02Z")
I am a fan of Malone products: [http://www.maloneautoracks.com/](http://www.maloneautoracks.com/)
especially their "Sea Wings"...for these you could literally bolt a rear set thru the top of your camper top, or to any shape cross rail, and a front set above your cab and load them from behind your truck, lift up, and slide forward. You can still fit 2 kayaks easily side by side flat because the sea wings can be mounted to overhang the side of your car a little if you want. The kayaks also take up less vertical height than "J" racks. They also are a little "springy" so that strap pressure holds your kayak in place real nice without having to put a lot of stress on your kayak.
[http://www.maloneautoracks.com/seawing.php](http://www.maloneautoracks.com/seawing.php)
All Malone products are very high quality and they stand behind their products for life.
Curt
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### Author:  [@Henry\_Cook](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Henry_Cook)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/kayak-hauling/42783/7 "2015-01-13T15:40:56Z")
thanks guys. Looks like there are several options to explore. I've already got too many trailers around, so I think I'll go a different route there.
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### Author:  [@David\_Poole](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/David_Poole)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2015, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/kayak-hauling/42783/8 "2015-01-14T08:25:09Z")
One thing we didn't mention was a hitch extender. My friend with the Ford Ranger, affectionately known as "Whitey" uses a hitch extender for her Ocean Kayak 14ft SOT. Technically I think she should have lights on it but in daylight a flag works. Basically the boat sits one end in the bed and one end on the extender.
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A lift to the tail gate height is easier than a lift to the top of the cap.
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### Author:  [@David\_Dufour](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/David_Dufour)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/kayak-hauling/42783/9 "2015-01-15T14:10:33Z")
I bought a removable ladder rack for my pickup at Harbor Freight 99$.
It works great to carry a single kayak, and when I don't want it on the truck just slides out of the mounts.
Also it carries the kayak high enough that I have no concerns about other vehicles.
http://www.harborfreight.com/250-lb-truck-ladder-rack-66187-1789.html