A friend has the thule system for his car with a load bar. Sticks out 1 bar and you set one end on it then lift the other.Slide the free end in place then slide the end you sat up first in place. He loves it and uses it on his old gruman alluminum canoe.He also has a canoe dolly to transport to the lake from the car.He puts that near the center so it is near ballance,no weight on his back with his 2 fused vertabreigh (sp).
He seems to think no canoer should be without either!
Dennis