My wife and I are in the market for SOT kayaks. Hers for paddling around the local lagoons, and mine primarily to fish said lagoons. The one we'll get for her is about 9', just the basic recreational. I'm leaning REAL hard to the Pelican Castaway, about 11.5 foot long. I drive a Subaru Impreza...has the rails, but no racks yet.

The local Yakima dealer says that the car MIGHT handle both kayaks, but has no way to tell for certain. Says we'd need to own the boats and try to fit them. Well, I don't want to buy the boats until I know I have a way to get them from here to there. I'm fairly sure that the local Yakima guy just doesn't know much.

Does anyone happen to know if I'll be able to get two kayaks onto my car? Is Yakima the way to go, or is Thule any better? Thoughts?

Hoping to join the paddling crew real soon. As in yesterday. Yeah, I've got the jones for kayaks real bad. Can't ya tell?

-Padron-