Rain and Kayaks

The kayaks can live on the top of the car. No problem. If it rains a little, that’s not a problem either. There are cockpits for the rain to get in the boats, but the cockpits are small compared to the volume of the boats. It rains a little. The rain stops. The water evaporates. No problem. We have cockpit covers to keep the rain out, but we don’t use them. They only work until the wind blows. We’re in Texas. The wind always blows.

It would really have to rain a lot for something to go wrong. I mean, how much rain would it take to fill the boats with so much water the front saddles sagged, shifting the weight forward, crushing the front saddles all the way, and collapsing the rack down onto the top of the Jeep?



Of course, if that did happen; if it rained say 9 inches, those would be some heavy boats.


Those boats would be too heavy to even lift off the car. A person might have to figure out some way to siphon out the water so they could take the boats down to dry out…

The kayaks, the kayak rack, and the Jeep all survived.

All’s well that ends well.