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Topic: Cartopping two Hobies  (Read 21700 times)

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LCfish

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  • Location: Sf Bay area
  • Date Registered: Jun 2025
  • Posts: 5
My mom and I cant cartop both of our Hobies. I have a hobie Passport and Kona, and we ant to go fishing together. We bought a J lo rack, but we cant seem to get either of them into it. Tips, technique, and solutions Please  :smt003
Hobie Kona
Hobie Passport


fishbushing

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  • Location: San Jose
  • Date Registered: Oct 2018
  • Posts: 3617
Probably youtube video showing how to load a kayak onto the jaylow.

I would put the heavier of the two face down and the other (Kona) on the jaylow because most have a limited weight capacity (meant mostly for sit-in).
-Jason


tedski

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  • Location: Boulder Creek
  • Date Registered: Feb 2015
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Here's how I do it with a Passport 12 and an Ocean Kayak Prowler 13.


Hobie Passport 12
Ocean Kayak Prowler Trident 13
Ocean Kayak Prowler 13


Weimarian

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  • F!!! politics. Let's go FISHING
  • Location: Weimar California
  • Date Registered: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 6189
Check roof weight capacity for your vehicle and please tie off with a rope to front of vehicle. Be safe out there
my new name should be Ostridge. Got my head in the sand. Going fishing and letting go of the other stuff I can't control anyway!


LCfish

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  • Location: Sf Bay area
  • Date Registered: Jun 2025
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Thanks for the info!!! we are struggling to get the kayak into the jay lo. Do you have any advice for getting it up there!!!
Hobie Kona
Hobie Passport


fishbushing

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Thanks for the info!!! we are struggling to get the kayak into the jay lo. Do you have any advice for getting it up there!!!

You can't just do something similar like in tedski's photo?

Do you have a picture of your lay low mounted on the roof rack?
-Jason


tedski

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  • Date Registered: Feb 2015
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Thanks for the info!!! we are struggling to get the kayak into the jay lo. Do you have any advice for getting it up there!!!

This is going to sound curt and I sincerely don't mean it that way, but I can't think of any other way to word it.  I lift the kayak and place it in the JayLow.  The one pictured is light enough that I kind of deadlift and just chuck it in there.  When we played with putting the Passport in there, we put one person on the bow and one on the stern and lifted it over our heads and chucked it into the JayLow.
Hobie Passport 12
Ocean Kayak Prowler Trident 13
Ocean Kayak Prowler 13


Geruhld

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  • Location: san jose
  • Date Registered: Sep 2024
  • Posts: 67
I used to carry a the kayak upside down with my partner and kind of push it upwards and it’ll rotate into the rack. At the end of the day it was too much work and I got 65 in crossbars on my rav. Works way better.

Fits a revo 13 and compass perfectly


 

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