Auto Help. Have Jeep, Need Advice on How to Attach a Kayak??

10.09.17 | chickensoup

[Chickensoup]

Ok boys and girls.

I bought the Jeep Sahara Unlimited Altitude Wrangler that we discussed last spring. I love it and I smile all the time that I drive it. Yes I am a Pavement Princess.

Great vehicle.

Now I have a conundrum.

I want to buy and transport a kayak. I have wanted one of my own for years, and heck, it is my birthday this week.

I smile when I kayak.

I went out and looked at them and I can get a 10 foot 38 lb injection molded cute kayak at a decent price to paddle around the lakes and streams in my area.

Problem. It is too long for my vehicle so I cannot stuff it inside. I cannot remove the spare to have it hang out the back, for that cannot happen. It is too heavy to remove, and it looks cute back there.

I am way too short to put the kayak on the detachable roof. It will never get up there. That is a fact.

I have a trailer but transporting the kayak in the big trailer that my son uses to transport big things like snowmobiles, lawn tractors etc. seems like overkill...and I cannot back up with a trailer. It is encoded in my female DNA to be unable to back up the trailer.

I have been looking at some of those little trailer-ettes that hang off the trailer hitch. They are little platforms that hang there and they stick out a bit. I am trying to see whether I can somehow strap a kayak to the back of the vehicle standing upright sitting on that hitch platform. Would this be a good idea. I would not be going on highways, just back roads here in the area. Never more that 50 mph.

I don't want to harm the Jeep, the kayak or anyone else.

Your technical advice would be appreciated.

Thank you!

chickensoup

[BlueDragon]

are you suggesting that I drag the Kayak?

Don't forget to put a little wheel on the end of it?

...and on the bright side, having a bicycle as towing vehicle, the backing problem would be non-existent. [insert string of ridiculous smileys --here--]

[RegulatorCountry]

I was shown how to make it by old friends whose family owns a Greek restaurant and it’s sort of by taste without actual measurements, but I went looking online for you and this one sounds about right:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Avgolemono-Lemon-Chicken-Soup/

They’re using the whole egg, though, and I might be using a little more lemon than this. The key is to let the egg thicken the soup by slowly stirring it in, not clumping up like egg drop soup or something. They’re also saying low sodium chicken broth when I use the regular stuff, use low sodium if you or a family member has issues with sodium, use regular for flavor if not.

[TruthWillWin]

If you are unable to learn how to back a trailer with a little practice then stay out of the kayak. A kayak in even semi-rough waters is much harder to learn how to navigate than learning how to back a trailer.