See full version: FAQ: How To Transport Canoes; Kayaks
Multiple Kayaks can be easily transported using a standard roof rack for your vehicle with the help of a Thule Watersports Carrier. Included below are some examples of correctly transporting kayaks when using both flat on the bar and on edge methods. more
Generally, multiple kayaks will not fit side by side unless they are loaded on their edge using a kayak rack. There are a wide range of kayak racks available - the choice of rack depends on your kayak size/shape, type of roof bars used and price range.
Two Nomad Sport single Sit-On-Tops can be easily transported on the standard roof rack of your vehicle with the help of Thule's Kayak Stackers. more
Transporting a Single & Tandem Sit-on-Top Kayak using an Upright Bar
With the help of an Upright Bar a Single Sit-On-Top can be transported on edge, which leaves space on the other side of the rack to load a tandem sit-on upside down flat on the bars to protect the hull shape of the kayak. more
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Next month, my kids and I are enrolled in a canoe building workshop in the Lake District of the United Kingdom. At the end of the 4 days we will have a 17ft canoe weighing between 16 and 22 kilos.
More canoes are destroyed by flying off a car than are wrapped around rocks. (Western Canoe Company factoid)
One rope should be short enough to not reach all the way across the canoe. Put a bowline in the end. Run the other rope through the bowline, pull hard and tie.
At this point the front ropes are vertical or sloped back toward your windshield. If they are sloping forward, you need to move the whole canoe back on your car. [links]
You need to keep the gunwales from scratching your roof. Canoe stores sell foam blocks for this. You can also take a pool noodle, cut into 1 foot chunks, slit one side to the hole in the middle, and clip this around the gunwale. I have also used life jackets. PITA.
I've used the foam blocks, and every method of strapping and tying a canoe down to roofs and racks with ropes and ratcheting straps. The keelover out performs them all. [links]
You probably want to move the boat further back from this point. The main disadvantage to having too much of the boat over the front windshield is that it blocks your view more than necessary. (It's also worse for aerodynamics) But you don't want to move it so far back that it will fall off before you tie it. Also, the more of the boat that is sticking out behind, the more likely you are to hit something with it.