Best Vehicle for Kayakers
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Topic: Best Vehicle for Kayakers
Posted By: James
Subject: Best Vehicle for Kayakers
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 9:34am
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Everyone knows that I love my VW Syncro Van but I am curious what other people have found to be the best vehicle for boating. Make a post, include a photo of that fancy rig, or vote for what you think is the better choice! ![]("/uploads/bin/2/useruploads/29/2154tn600.jpg") I wonder where that 1st vote for the Vans came from? |
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Posted By: Tobin
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 9:41am
![]("http://www.professorpaddle.com/uploads/bin/2/useruploads/194/2102tn600.jpg") Everyone needs a Hooptie
------------- Sure? |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 3:08pm
To tilt the poll back in my favor here is a little something else to think about.![]("http://www.professorpaddle.com/uploads/bin/2/useruploads/231/1794Tn600.jpg") But I suppose since you can't handle the Van-anda-Im-Freakin-Gon Then you can kick it like Dufay, and crash in the Golf!!! ![]("http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39412000/jpg/_39412641_car.jpg") ------------- |
Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 5:36pm
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I'm kinda a fan of the Sprinter van with a high roof, then you can change in comfort standing up and still have a comfortable drivable vehicle.
------------- Nomad |
Posted By: workskipper
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 5:37pm
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Me wantum ice cream van, then eatum ice cream all way to river!
------------- I would never dream of skipping work to boat! |
Posted By: kirsplat
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 5:57pm
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Posted By: Texas Dave
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 6:21pm
I love my Tundra. Lifted 4x4 will get you anywhere, plenty of space, and the basket rack with side steps can haul a ton of boats and gear. The gas mileage sucks but I like driving it enough to put up with it.
![]("http://www.professorpaddle.com/uploads/bin/2/useruploads/327/2192tn100.jpg") ------------- Dave |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 6:40pm
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If this ain't the Tatlow Mobile I don't know what is. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-190927523483598690 Bowstall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Er6kZTuFbU&mode=related&search= ------------- |
Posted By: zenofww
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 7:10pm
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Just to help tip the scales. ![]("http://www.professorpaddle.com/uploads/bin/2/useruploads/509/2193.jpg")
and its for sale... |
Posted By: ashleygoesdisco
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 10:44pm
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Dude. My Beetle is so much better than all of your cars combined... ------------- Ashley Duffus Well behaved women rarely make history. www.naiyadays.blogspot.com |
Posted By: franzhorner
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2007 at 10:38am
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Volvo 240 station wagons rule!!! I can sleep in the back with my
arms streched out and my feet don't even hang out the back. The
back seat goes down perfectly flat too. Also I can fit 2 rafts 2
frames, oars, paddles, pfds, and a couple of kayaks plus one
rider at the max. Its perfect for me. Oh ya! I get
30-35 MPG too! Its got 225,000 miles on it and its just getting
warmed up! Its not good for 4Xing though.... I have read over and over again that if you drive a Volvo wagon and wear Birkenstocks you are surely not on the Republicans radar for support. Demographically, I should never support them. I wonder if that goes for Vanagon drivers too!! Damn good for nothing long haired Volvo driving hippies!! Is there nothing to be said for comfortable feet and a reliable car that can go 1 million miles??!! He he ha ha ho ho!! ------------- MORE RAIN PLEASE |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2007 at 11:31am
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I am a die hard - super far right - hard line - republican and I drive a Vanagon. I guess since its a syncro that rule does not apply to me! ------------- |
Posted By: franzhorner
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2007 at 11:52am
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You gotta wear Birkenstocks with your Vanagon to apply I guess!
Have you been getting solitications from the Republican party or their
candidates??!!! He He ha ha ho ho!
------------- MORE RAIN PLEASE |
Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2007 at 4:24pm
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One Word, "NITRO!" Heated Leather seats, 20MPG, rack on top, ride in luxury,tinted windows, 6 disk mp3 DVD player (over 6000 songs in the deck),heated mirrors heated everything, 4X4. What else could you want? Plus it has a 5 star crash rating and Mercedes traction control system (you can manual override that if you want). Need I say more? ![]("smileys/smiley12.gif") ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2007 at 4:36pm
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The nitro would fall under the ice cream truck category. Also is that on the for sale list with the Guns or is your lady going to let you keep it? in the words of Franzie He He ha ha ho ho! ------------- |
Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2007 at 6:11pm
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The Nitro is truly a vehicle made for kayaking...... ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: Hydro
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2007 at 5:17pm
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Vanagon's Rock for all-round utility, and they fit the tool kit you'll always need :) Unimog's Rock for back-woods, but I need a top speed of more than 45mph. Quigley's Rock for the Camper-style summer adventure but cost a fortune. Pick-ups Rock for quick loading, but most often no good more than 1 friend. Previa's Rock most functions you could throw at it Beetle's Rock as most unlikely car to ever have a kayak on it! But my Volvo XC is the comfort cruising, AWD, flat-sleeping, wagon-extraordinaire with heated seats for cold paddle and powder days. And they spark ire in Republicans. Ha Ha He He Hoo Hoo... |
Posted By: Kyle K
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2007 at 6:40pm
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Most practical shuttle vehicle: Minivan, hands down. It will get you to most runs in comfort, get good mileage and has a lot of room. Great for sleeping in too, if you remove the seats. The ones with the seats that fold flat into the floor are really convenient. The Toyota Seinna and Honda Odyssey are super reliable as well. Best shuttle vehicle I've ever owned/used: (two) 1982 4x4 Dodge Maxivans (from '82-'86) with a gigantic roof rack that could carry a dozen boats easy. Duel fuel - gas and propane - and big tanks... unfortunately you needed the big tanks cuz' those beasts got 8mpg. I have lots of memories of those rigs, including driving one up the bunny hill at the Flagstaff Snow Bowl after a few too many beers in the lodge. It finally bogged down about 3/4 of the way up. I couldn't turn around or it would have rolled so I had to back down... Alcohol makes me really stupid! Of course there were about 15 ski patrol in the van with me, just as drunk, egging me on. It's a wonder I've lived this long.Coolest shuttle vehicle I've ever seen: 1975 Porsche 911 (in 1975) with surfboard racks totin' two Hollowforms. These were the original plastic whitewater boats and were 4 meters long... about the same length as the car! That dude was stylin'!
Most ridiculous shuttle vehicle I've ever seen: Corran Addison, Steve Fisher and Dan Cambell all stuffed in some kind of convertable two seater, maybe a Fiero, with a homemade trailer hauling multiple Riot 007 prototypes and some Hammers. They had come to Seattle all the way from Montreal in that thing. It was the very first North American Riot Tour. I would have laughed at them except they were firing up the Top Tye at very high water in the 007s. I don't remember what the Sky was pumping but Tumwater was at 16k that day. I played shuttle bunny on that trip I don't mind saying. Corran eventually, well actually rather quickly, burned out the tranny in that car and scrapped it for a mini van somewhere in CA I think. ------------- "I used to be somebody, now I'm somebody else." Bad Blake |
Posted By: PowWrangler
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2007 at 9:50pm
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Originally posted by James I am a die hard - super far right - hard line - republican and I drive a Vanagon. That's a lotta extreme descriptors of your political philosophy there James. I'm surprised I've never heard you talk politics before. ![]("smileys/smiley32.gif") ------------- |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2007 at 9:03am
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I might have been tossing around a bit o BS, there. I don't know what I am. Perhaps you could ask me a few questions to determine what side of the spectrum I am on. ------------- |
Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2007 at 9:32am
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I don't know what you are James, but I think your a swell guy for keeping this open forum alive! Long live qp! ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2007 at 9:34am
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O, BTW, don't underestimate the power of the Nitro! ------------- Nomad |