Hi Joy,

Thanks. The guys where I used to work used to tell me they thought I
was driving the remains of a crashed float-plane. You're right, the
pop-top can't be raised with the boats on top. But I CAN load both
boats onto the bus by myself with that rack, which is not something I
could do if it were a hightop. And my 17' coleman canoe will NOT fit
inside a bus, hightop or otherwise, unless you fold it up or melt it
down, which ain't gonna happen.

There was a splitwindow factory hightop at Everybus last year with a
canoe on top; I can only imagine what that would have been like in a
crosswind. And can you imagine the horror if it had car tires?  I
just drove 110KM tonight with a full load of 8 adults in the vanagon
to attend a local VW group dinner, and the winds tonight were bad
enough in a passenger van!!

http://www.pottsfamily.ca/VW_type2/EB2005/pictures/dscn4005.jpg

Happy Trails,

Greg Potts
1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato
www.pottsfamily.ca

On 3-Feb-07, at 9:52 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:

> That's a great picture, Greg!  Way cool, it definitely belongs in the
> vanagon calendar or something.  But it looks like you can't pop the
> top with
> those boats up there.
>
> I met someone a long time ago who was in a hightop and had a
> canoe.  He had
> it attached on the side of the high part.  With two boats one could
> go on
> each side.
>
> I had my kayak on top, but I couldn't raise the top by myself
> because it was
> too heavy for me.  Struts are the answer for me - Kim and I have
> talked
> about his arrangement, and it has potential.  He doesn't know it
> yet, but
> sometime before Labrador I just might have to ask him to help me
> install
> them, unless he convinced me that it's really easily and doesn't
> involve
> drilling more holes in my poptop.  (There are already holes for the
> yak-rack.)
>
> Oops, I guess now he knows it!  :-)
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
> :::-----Original Message-----
> :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> Behalf
> :::Of Greg Potts
> :::Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 5:17 PM
> :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> :::Subject: Re: Poptop Raise Assists
> :::
> :::Hi Malcolm,
> :::
> :::And then where do I put my canoe or kayaks?
> :::
> :::http://www.pottsfamily.ca/The_Bug_Pack/WarsawCaves2002/AGF00002-
> tb.html
>
> http://www.pottsfamily.ca/The_Bug_Pack/WarsawCaves2002/AGF00002-
> tb.html
>
> :::
> :::Happy Trails,
> :::
> :::Greg Potts
> :::1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato
> :::www.pottsfamily.ca
> :::
> :::
> :::
> :::On 3-Feb-07, at 4:27 PM, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:
> :::
> :::> The definitive answer to a "hard to raise pop-top" is to get a
> high-
> :::> top.  Done!   m