Hi Flo! Hope you had a good trip. I've got this setup and I can
measure my bars tonight for you. I used the artificial raingutters as
well. I also used 1.125" OD underground gas pipe for the crossbars
instead of the wimpy Yaki bars. Gas pipe is twice as thick and the
stuff I got years ago came with a nifty yellow plastic coating that
is also twice as thick as the Yaki coating. Its also WAY cheaper than
Yaki bars. I think I bought 20ft of the stuff foe about $25---albeit
about 6 years ago. I'll be around this weekend if you want to pop
over and check them out. P-mail me for my phone. I'll send the bar
length tonight.

cheers,
jeff
On Jun 15, 2007, at 1:15 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:11:41 -0700
> From:    Florian Speier <groups.florian@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: which length thule / yakima cross bars does a westy need
> at the
>          minimum?
>
> subject says it all - whats the minimum crossbar length? trying to
> buy via
> craigslist, so this helps to know.
> in terms of the towers i understand any type fits as long as its
> the rain
> gutter type and i buy the artificial raingutters from yakima?
>
> thanks
> flo