Jim J -

I'm not sweating the issue anymore & here's why.  With four guys & their packs, I'm not likely to fit it all in the Outback anyway!  2nd canoe will go on 2nd car.

I'm just hoping I even get to do a canoe trip this year... the wife has other ideas that may get in the way.  It seems the idea of a bicycling & canal boat trip across France - with in-laws - is gaining steam.   I'm sure there is something very seriously wrong with me but the very notion of it just gets ME "steamed up."  Those type adventures (ordeals?) eat up a bunch of vacation time (ie. paddling time).

Alas, I expect I'll get my head around it somehow (probably she wraps my head around it).  I suppose I could pretend (might not be pretending) that doing without a serious canoe trip in 2015 would drive me wacko (I don't have all that far to drive) and that I might do something dangerous (like give her the "Joan of Arc" treatment).

Anyhow, the double-canoe car rack issue has pretty much become a moot one for me.

C'est la vie, mon ami!

Jacques-bo   8-)