Same here
Up until around a year ago. Two glass/kevlar sea kayaks on top of a Jetta TDI with 250K miles on it. I got $900 for the car.
Sure it is
It looks like a sign of properly placed priorities to me.
But then again, “worth” can be a hard thing to define. My old pick up isn’t worth much by blue book but I’ve poured a fair amount into keeping it running because I can’t find a canoe hauler that I prefer to it. And the bed has that pleasant odor of canvas packs and river mud which takes a while to regrow.
And what’s the “worth” of nice canoes that aren’t made anymore? For example Blackhawk solos, a kevlar Bell Mystic, an 84 Mad River Flashback… fine boats (IMHO) that can’t readily be replaced at any price, but on the open market not everyone recognizes that and that influences their “worth”.
And, though I don’t see it all that often, I suppose there’s nothing exactly wrong with a paddler owning a nice vehicle…
a nice vehicle is one that gets you and
your boats to the water
and…
…you and your boats back home again.
(For many a fuel pump died in them hills,
of the post-partem paddler try’n to take home happy thrills,
and many a paddler at his vehicle did curse,
cuz his ride chose to abide in alternator universe.)
Good thought
I’ve always put the bottom against the boat lying flat, but it might be better to do it your way. Quite a load in your picture - great shot.
Thomas
Remember at Raystown Scottb’s car the Cheesemaker or something like that? One headlight pointing down the other way up! And the truck smelling of…cheese!
PREMISE’S GONNA LITERALLY “DRIVE” US
to the poohouse, then…!
Just bought a new Maxda CX-5. Neighborhood of 30 grand.
That’s STILL a lotta boat/boats, regardless of composite composition! Still wouldn’t come close even with all EIGHT of our fleet on the roof!
Shoulda kept the infamous old Mazda 6 Wagon so CWDH’s equation would be valid -and WE would be in turn be validated -as we, with more worth overhead than underbutt, travel, to
PADDLE ON!
-Frank in Miami
Nothing wrong with driving a nice car…
as long as there is at least one nice boat on the roof.
Douglas, tis a memory…
…shall forever remain finely etched upon the scrimshawed worm-tracks crossing my rapidly shrinking cranial sponge-filler. (That might be the residual effects of the mouldy dangling headliner which flapped constantly against my face as we sped down the gravelly shuttle road.) Why, I imagine in some not too distant future, whilst some semi-attentive health giver attempts to shovel in my drooling crawl some strained beets, I’ll begin maniacally blurting out with repetitious zeal (like some simple, beyond-the-wall-behemoth desperately attempting against an onslaught of dead legions to, “Ho door! Ho door!”) “Cheez Maka! Cheez Maka!”
I am certain there are few Mercury Gran Marquises (de Sade) that have ever plied the nefarious roof-and-passenger-wracked byways of paddled sadism with such aplomb! And, should the rains come, just signal left, and an intermittent wiper might just cross your view.
Oh Frank
good luck with the 5 at the ramp. You need a burglar alarm with a HORN. Contact sensors all over the GT. Northstar, a battery disconnect (Hella)
Maslan hires a local guide with a beater: AAA
San Juan Island has a yaktaxi.
I park near the Ranger pref in his backyard. Or at the livery, chancing but better than the landing. Or in front of the State Police.
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I think it’s called Quality Time…
Times and vehicle pricing changes but function remains the same…
That isn’t normal?
Until the recent purchase of a certified used car to get into one that had a reliable steering column, air conditioning and safe bearings, the boats have been worth more than the car for a long time.
Of course, if they had a new rack and Hullivator on top, the beaters would have each been worth about as much as just the rack.