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Yes, there were similar racks offered on my Frontier, and I've been in friends' trucks that have them. I really don't like how close those bars are to each other with both mounted on the roof. A cross wind on the highway at 70 mph always feels really dicey to me. I've checked, and I can use...

Agreed Scott, and that was how I always transported them on my smaller cars--but those canoes were long enough and centered on the rack with the rack centered on the vehicle so I had the bow line and stern line pulling in opposite directions. On my current truck, the bow of the canoe ends up...

Troy, you single handedly make me regret my dog allergy more than all the dog owners in my life. These photos are great!

They still happen here in Maine. They don't occur often, and they are labeled as "safety checks" and only result in sobriety tests if the driver appears impaired. I once got stopped in three consecutive checks on my way home from dinner out with my wife--three different towns on our route that...

I'm buying a new truck--probably a Ford Ranger, although I'll look at Tacomas, too if I can't find the right deal. Whatever I buy, it will be my first truck with a crew cab and a short bed. I'll be putting some kind of rack on it. I think I can recycle my existing clamp on rack, but am...

I get that this is about finding the right thing, but the effective additional costs of a 10 hour round trip and all the driving miles have to be factored into any great buy that far away. That said, I bought my MMB scull on pretty much a whim in Delaware--I just decided that Maine-built boat...

Great story--but if pre MADD, you must be OLD! I graduated high school in 1985, and MADD was an active presence from at least 4th grade on. My own similar story was a summer canoe trip on the Allagash River, led by two middle school teachers at my school who had a summer guiding business. Two...

Just back from 10 days in the Maine woods, and the roof top soft-sided tents seem to be all the rage. The downside would be if you are travelling in grizzly country and can't use it in sites that only allow hard shell campers. And it seems fine for a tent, but not much use for anything else...

As a 6'3" guy in the market for a small truck, the very idea of a truck cap being used as a sleeping shelter is now off the table. I can sleep uncomfortably in 6' truck bed; with a bed 5' or 5' 6", it's not an option. Apparently two-seat trucks in the Ranger/Frontier/Tacoma/Colorado size range...

Setting aside any evaluation of whether it works, it's a bad sign when the supposed premise of a "conservation" program is to get wild birds to do things they wouldn't do without human "help." If the purpose of these programs is just to provide local birds to shoot, why not say that? We do with...

Once an area is overcrowded, it's damned if you manage access and damned if you don't. The DNR may do a shitty job of managing a bad situation, but the real problem is more hunters on public land than those units can handle. The experience can either be ruined by overcrowding or by the...

Same trip I fished out of this thing--which has since gone the way of all abandoned plastic boats and no longer floats. Big man in a little boat.

This one-on the shore of a fantastic trout pond, 2.5 miles from the trailhead, and apparently not touched in many years--remains my favorite.

Welcome! You are going to fit in just fine here. :cool:

So bent over transom and screwed in on both sides?

I've never considered planting as a permanent cover, but it's a great idea. Since this is presumably in or near a wet area, consider whether any plants are considered invasive in your area and avoid them. A story circulates among salt marsh restoration folks here in Maine about a project to...

New question. (And yes, Todd, it would be better with photos, but I don't have any . . . . .so there!) The previous owner had replaced whatever motorboard these came with 55 years ago with low grade plywood. That will eventually wear out and need to be replaced with something more durable...