In my younger days I used to criss-cross the country in the '82 Diesel westy towing a Hobiecat. On its trailer that makes a 40-50ft long combination. Difficult to find parking for and a pain to drive around with when visiting cities. A catamaran is basically two hulls with 5 or so ft of space between them. Perfect fit to the about 5ft wide top of the westy I thought. However the plan fell on my inability to engineer a system to get the boat up there. With Hobie 16's I've seen 4 strong guys muscle them on top of vans by hand, but I had a Hobie 18 and usually no strong guys around. Now I'm limited to a kayak, which is as big a craft as I can get up on the poptop without help, but secretly I'm dreaming of going on a cross country trip with a Farrier F22 (if I ever have time to build one) or F24 if I could find an affordable one. Cheers, Martin Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET> wrote: I posted this link on the vintage bus list after someone asked about anyone repoing a boat that fit on the top of split window buses like this: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=69737 Has anyone ever done this on a vanagon? Tom B.-up a creek w/o a boat or paddle
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