The Great JeepYak!
Well its been a week since we have returned from our 2 week summer camping trip and I am just getting to posting some of the better pictures.
Here we are in our JeepYak!
Our Jeep Liberty Renegade ‘KJ’ Loaded with our Kayaks on some jeep trails looking for lakes to Kayak in.
We had a great time exploring in the jeep on this trip!
After 2 weeks of camping and hauling the Kayaks over 700 miles (both on and off the road) I am glad we invested in quality Kayak rack!
Only Thule offered mounting system that fit the KJ Renegade Stock Roof Rack however I preferred the Yakima HullyRollers and Mako Saddles to the Thule offering.
We ended up with the Yakima Kayak gear on the Thule rack (yes they are interchangeable). The Thule rack mounts work great on the Renegade and I like the Thule cross bar system better than the Yakima. Thule uses rectangular cross bars vs. the round bars on the Yakima.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:50 am
Interestingly, we have the exact same setup for a rack system on our Liberty. We love ours and it seems you do as well! I found your site when looking around the web for people that have traveled a lot in a Liberty. My wife and I are coming across the country this summer from Delaware in our Liberty. Any suggestions on anything to watch out for with the Liberty, etc. I drove cross country in a Wrangler before, so I’m hoping this is just a bit more comfortable!
August 22nd, 2009 at 3:43 am
I am looking into a rack for my wife’s jeep liberty. We have two SOT kayaks similar to yours. I have looked at Thule and Yakima as well as some bargin roof racks no one’s ever heard of. Most of the bargin racks are limited to one size of cross bars. The yakima and thule seem to offer multiple sizes. Since i am intrested is using the same type set up you have for your boats with hully rollers and mako saddles i was wondering what size bars you decided to go with on your roof rack. Any insight would be great. Oh and nice KJ I like that color alot.