- Episode 1 - Anxiety over a pure truck bed or a roof+truckbed solution. Decided to go for positioning the load as forward as possible. Yakima Outdoorsman 300 in back and standard Q-tower rack on cab. Later leads to broken finger and another trip to Hickory by Kathleen to ask the guys to do the cab installation.
- Episode 2 - Agonizing over cutting through the 1/8" bedliner to get the Outdoorsman attached. Simplified by finding wood chisel in toolbox and going to town with rubber mallet. Fairly nice fitting cutouts are fashioned and rack is mounted. (see below) Kathleen's kayak is wrestled on to rollers and mako sharks ... to discover that the racks are two far apart. Separation of 7'6" leaves the racks trying to hold predominately vertical surfaces on our 12-13' kayaks rather than horizontal ones. Gonna half to bang out another 18" on each side of the bedliner to shift the rack forward. Darn it! I neglected to measure first.
- Episode 3 - Who knows yet?
I forgot to mention one of the drivers behind going big on the separation ... We could then transport our double shell which is 24' long. A racing single would be 26' long. I'll be able to use as much of a shift forward as I can get!
UPDATE - Dec 29: Read about the thrilling conclusion here!
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