Thule Hullavator

I love mine.
I have a neck/spinal issue that makes lifting above my head problematic.

Thule has literally saved my Kayak fishing.

I think they raise a little cockeye due to the differences in wieght on each of the individual hullavators. Remember they are not a linked system. If your left arm is raising the front 1/4 of the boat which is empty, and your right arm is lifting pretty much from the center of the boat and has the majority of the weight; its not strange that they lift at different rates.

And yes they are expensive, but I look at it this way. $400 for the rack (thats what I paid at kfs this spring) I went out 41 times. Each trip is 2 up and 2 down. That 82 times up and 82 times down. 164 into 400 = 2.43 times 4 = $9.76 per trip. Yech, ten bucks to put my yak on my car?
Wait next year it will be $5 and the next $2.50. Finally, in 4 years it will cost me just over a dollar to have my yak loaded and off loaded four times per trip. Nice.

btw-Zebra mussels single handedly cleaned up the great lakes. they made a nasty waterway clean and bright. The small mouth fishery is now just about the best in the world. I am sure there have been deletirous effects, but past fishing, who cares?

I wonder if the Casitas fishery is not whats in trouble in CA. Could it be its the people who built a city in a desert and use lakes to water their orange trees that are afraid of the mussels?

I have no idea being a NJ flatlander, but I wonder. No offense to our Western bretheren

Good post.

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