How to tie down skis and snowboards to a roof rack step 1.
Strap snowboard to roof rack.
Brightline ski snowboard racks hold up to four pairs of skis or two snowboards.
Choose your carrier to carry your skis or snowboards on a roof rack you ll need a carrier designed for this use.
This is a great option and usually best value.
On each side of the roof you ll see a rack that runs the length of the roof of the vehicle.
This is an simple and easy way to strap one or several surf or sup boards to the top of a car that does not have hard racks using foam pads and two straps.
Otherwise you could drill holes threw some plastic like an old scraper and tighten the plastic down onto the board with strap underneath.
If you can fix a permanent roof rack to your car then all the better as the boards don t rest on your car.
This seems to run like 500.
What types of tie downs work best.
Neolife soft roof rack pads with two 15 ft wrap rax straps for surfboard sup paddleboard snowboard kayak 28inch pair blue black 4 2 out of 5 stars 31 36 99 36.
Still working on this one.
2 find a car rental place that has suvs with 4wd and snow tires.
The racks come with locks and quick release mounts.
3 bungee cord the boards to the roof i figure you run the bungees through the bindings then through the car windows and hook the cord to itself inside the car.
Put the board in a board bag and run ropes through the bag s handles.
Your board comes with holes meant to attach bindings i would use those as opposed to just strapping shit to the roof and praying.
So is 3 too good to be true.
How to strap a kayak to your roof.
With the third option crossbars with side rails you can secure an item to the side rails and run tie downs from front to back securing them to the crossbars.
Use a tie down that wraps around the item and the rails.
It may fray the straps.
The bindings are easy to put back on.
Padding is definitely a good idea.
1 get a roof rack installed.
Yakima fatcat evo 4 black 8003095 4 pair ski racks 2 snowboard carriers for car roof racks duration.
4 board soft roof rack.
The racks mount to vehicle roof crossbars.