RSI SmartCap kayak rack suggestions?

[antihero23]

Anyone with a SmartCap? Anyone with a rack on a SmartCap?

Please give me some suggestions. I want to haul a kayak (Ocean Kayak Scrambler), occasionally two of them, up on top my SmartCap.

Thanks.

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[Jaxmax]

I use Yakima round bars on removable control towers that fit the RSI rails, I also have in bar boat loaders on the one side to help putting the heavy 100lb kayaks up top, or extend them out six inches and put two fat kayaks on top.
When not needed just unlock pull them off and put caps on the mounts , beautiful system . Couple pics of Jeep where you can see the end of boat loader and how they fit. scrambler is a nice sturdy kayak, I am up to five now be careful ….Jack

 

[antihero23]

I use Yakima round bars on removable control towers that fit the RSI rails, I also have in bar boat loaders on the one side to help putting the heavy 100lb kayaks up top, or extend them out six inches and put two fat kayaks on top.
When not needed just unlock pull them off and put caps on the mounts , beautiful system . Couple pics of Jeep where you can see the end of boat loader and how they fit. scrambler is a nice sturdy kayak, I am up to five now be careful ….Jack

That's great thanks. Can you link me to your parts and pieces?

 

[Jaxmax]

Naw…go to Yakima or Thule websites and browse there are options , round bars are old school but have many optional mounts. They have two versions of boat loaders and Thule has one also they are a requirement when putting up heavy kayaks, the loader is a steel bar about 36”long inside the tube that pulls out and tightens up ,throw blanket on the cap put an end on the boat loader and pick up half the kayak and put it on the bars then just put it back in. When I am with a crowd , they are amazed as I pull off a Liquid Logic tandem sit on top with a built in stern wheel and we are in the water while they are trying to get carts under their boats!
Racks last a lot longer if you take them off when not needed and it is quick to do, my same bars have been on a few trucks since 2003!…Jack

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