best way to haul an 11' longboard long distance

[mtnsport]

I'm in North Carolina & am heading to Colorado on a whitewater kayaking trip in a few days, a bud of mine wants me to bring his longboard to him for a Baja trip later this year.

Here's the dilemma, how to fit it on my roof rack. I've got a mountain bike and space booster case already on the roof. The space left is perfect to load my two whitewater kayaks on their sides. The cross bars are padded and the longboard is in a really nice padded bag.

A couple of questions:
1) is it possible/advisable to carry a surfboard in a padded bag on its side next to the boats or will that f it up?
2) How about laying the board flat on the crossbars, maybe adding some extra padding, towels or whatever in the bag, then strapping the boats to kayak stackers on top of the board? Both boats together weigh around 85-90pds.

Any advice on this is greatly appreciated. I really want to get my boy his board and the only other alternative is sticking it in the vehicle & let a few feet hang out the rear window, which I really don't want to do for a couple thousand mile road trip.

Thanks,


Mark

[pat42]

I shouldnt think there would be any problem if you could squeeze the board on it's side in between the kayaks.....just make sure it's secure.

Or you could put the board under the actual rack and use a softrack to attach the board

Or you could drive from North Carolina to Colorado holding the board out of the window

You might need someone in the back seat to help you out with this option

[mtnsport]

Hey thanks for the feedback. I posted the same question over on a whitewater forum and came up w/ a similar answer. Stack the 2 kayaks on their sides like normal, then stack the board in the bag to the similarly shaped planing hull of the outside boat to disperse the load, then it shouldn't even really be resting on the rails at all.

Of course hanging on to it out the window would be a good workout.

Mark