did your trailer combination look anything like that?
http://www.cwr16.homepage.t-online.de/hp/doka_anh.htm

On 10/6/07, Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> In my younger days I used to criss-cross the country in the '82
> Diesel westy towing a Hobiecat. On its trailer that makes
> a 40-50ft long combination. Difficult to find parking for and a pain
> to drive around with when visiting cities.
>
> A catamaran is basically two hulls with 5 or so ft of space between
> them. Perfect fit to the about 5ft wide top of the westy I thought.
> However the plan fell on my inability to engineer a system to get the
> boat up there. With Hobie 16's I've seen 4 strong guys muscle them
> on top of vans by hand, but I had a Hobie 18 and usually no strong guys
> around.
>
> Now I'm limited to a kayak, which is as big a craft as I can get
> up on the poptop without help, but secretly I'm dreaming of going on
> a cross country trip with a Farrier F22 (if I ever have time to build one)
> or F24 if I could find an affordable one.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET> wrote: I posted this link on the vintage
> bus list after someone asked about
> anyone repoing a boat that fit on the top of split window buses like
> this:
>
> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=69737
>
> Has anyone ever done this on a vanagon?
>
> Tom B.-up a creek w/o a boat or paddle
>
>
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Karl
'81 Westy "Jenny"
Wilmington, DE