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Date:         Sun, 7 Oct 2007 09:30:41 -0400
Reply-To:     Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Anyone ever see a vanagon boat top?
Comments: To: Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca>
In-Reply-To:  <676677.70207.qm@web45307.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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did your trailer combination look anything like that? http://www.cwr16.homepage.t-online.de/hp/doka_anh.htm

On 10/6/07, Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > 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 > > > > --------------------------------- > Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the > boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail >

-- Karl '81 Westy "Jenny" Wilmington, DE


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