on 4/5/06 2:57 PM, Joy Hecht at jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU wrote:

> There's no way I could "hop up onto the luggage rack" to do anything!  Even
> with the step ladder I carried for loading the boat, I couldn't get up
> there.  The only way I could get out there is to pop the top and go out the
> window in the canvas.  Which of course is the problem in the first place!
>
Get 1 of those gutter mounted folding ladders like "Hot Dog Fred" sells for
about $80?  Easy to store, access the luggage rack from either front door,
nice accessory Toy for Joy.  But weight(sic), you stopped carrying it at
all.

Tom-I could send pic on my westy for your coveting pleasure?