Kingham roof rack

Hi, we have a Kingham, my wife wants to transport an 8.5 foot canoe. It will just about fit inside. Would prefer to fit to the roof. Has anyone done this on a Kingham or similar? Any ideas please?

I’m pretty sure member ‘Kingham’ will have some answers (although he has a kayak on the roof not a canoe) but I don’t recall seeing him on here recently.
Maybe do a search for his past posts?

We haven't done it, but, did research it a bit.

First thing to say is the roof bars are decorative, not load bearing, unless that option was specified at first purchase.

If you have the Thule awning then they offer a roof rack that mounts with that - from memory the awning bolts to the same roof rack mounting points.

Kingham then mounted a Kari-Tek sliding rack so that he could load his kayaks from the side of the van, rather than having to get up to the roof. We were looking at a roller at the rear to slide our kayaks on to the roof, then using a ladder to get up and tie them down.

Eventually, we decided to just use our inflatable kayak (carried on the bike rack) and sold our full size sea kayaks.

One other thought. The main reason we gave up on the idea is that there is a lot, and I mean a lot!, of stuff on the roof of a Kingham.

We weren't prepared to compromise on opening the skylights or having the solar panel overshadowed by the kayaks, which would restrict the placement of any rack. Both of those things were important to us, they may not be important to you.

Check out this rack ...

Karitek Easy Lift Roof Rack (ELRR) 

Paulmold wrote:Check out this rack ...

Karitek Easy Lift Roof Rack (ELRR) 

That's the rack I was referring to that Kingham has fitted.

From memory, which may be faulty!, this still needs cross bars on the roof to be mounted on.

Thanks

Cross bars help raise everything above the height of anything fitted on your roof (skylights, vents, solar, etc).

Some pics here on page 2 of this thread: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Trevharvey1966 wrote:Hi, we have a Kingham, my wife wants to transport an 8.5 foot canoe. It will just about fit inside. Would prefer to fit to the roof. Has anyone done this on a Kingham or similar? Any ideas please?

all can be seen how to fit the rack on my kemerton xl improvements post and picture of my kayak on the rack