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Originally Posted by Bill
Incidentally, a number of TM owners have wanted to carry kayaks on the roof of their TM. Rather than carrying the boats directly on the surface of the roof, many have spanned the roof with a pipe or bar frame, bringing the weight to the edges of the roof. This seems to work. Perhaps you could use this same approach to install a platform of some kind above the roof.
Bill
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More incidentally, TM now offers a Sport package on the 2518 & 2720. Part of the package is a kayak rack. They built it as part of the edge frame structure, it doesn’t touch the actual roof surface.
And Bill is spot on… The roof crown is what we worry about. Once you lose that crown it’s all done, no real way of fixing it. I have a parts TM that was donated because it was left out over the winter in NJ and the snow caved the roof. Granted I don’t think this TM was in the best shape to begin with, but…