Date:         Sat, 6 Oct 2007 17:45:57 -0400
Reply-To:     Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@YAHOO.CA>
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From:         Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@YAHOO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Anyone ever see a vanagon boat top?
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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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