carmike1 wrote on May 29^th, 2012 at 2:54am:

Interesting thread....I'm curious if there's any difference between putting the tie-downs over the canoe, or looping them over the thwarts, before strapping the canoe down. I always loop them over the thwarts, but I'm willing to change. :)

Not sure if that's good enough; the outfitters CCC  that I use tie it over the canoe and the thwarts.  That's the way I learned and I've always done it. Also, I don't like to take chances and tie all sides, front and back to the frame; and I like preacher's advice; to make sure it's secure enough to rock the car.