This lift assist allows a single person to easily load a kayak onto a roof rack. Swing-out arm holds your boat upright - away from your vehicle - as you load it, and it stores on your crossbars when not in use. Easy, clamp-on installation.
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The Inno Kayak Lifter allows one person to easily load a kayak or canoe onto a vehicle's roof rack. The swing-out arm lets you load your boat away from the side of your vehilce to help avoid scratches and dings, and it stores on your crossbars when not in use. The load assist is constructed of rustproof aluminum, and it installs without tools on most crossbars.
The load assist installs easily on most crossbars - no tools required. Simply place the load assist on your crossbars with a mounting bolt on either side of the bar. Thread the mounting bracket onto the ends of the bolts - under the crossbar - and secure it in place with hand knobs.
The swing-out arm lets a single person easily load a boat onto the roof of a vehicle. To load, rotate the arm out and away from the base bar on the side of your vehicle.
Lean your kayak or canoe against the arm. lift the rear end of the boat up so that it is level with your roof rack, and set it on your vehicle's rear crossbar. Use the back end of the boat to lift the front end and pivot it into place on your vehicle's front crossbar. Once in place, secure your load with tie-down straps and bow/stern tie-downs (sold separately) to secure the kayak to your crossbars and to your vehicle. Board pads (sold separately) protect your boat from scratches during transport.
Once your kayak is loaded and secured, simply rotate the arm back into the stored position and secure it with the integrated ratcheting strap.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today we'll be taking a look at the Inno Kayak Lifter, part number INA453. The Inno Kayak Lifter is specifically designed for assisting you in loading your kayak on top of your crossbars. Simply undo your strap, swing out the arm and then you are ready to load up a kayak. The best way to do it is to turn your kayak upside down, we'll simply lay one in the corner of the kayak lifter and just pushing it on up and as you can see it's acting as another person in assisting you to loading it up. Now with our kayak in place, we want to promptly secure it to our crossbars then we can take our swinging arm, swing it back into place and strap it in and then we are ready to hit the road. This kayak lifter is made out of a lightweight aluminum construction with a silver powder coat finish. The longer of the 2 arms measures 43 inches and the shorter one is going to measure 18 inches.
It can also assist you in unloading your kayak and one of the great features of using the kayak lifter is that our kayak does not make contact with our vehicle when using it. Now that we've gone over some of the features, I'll go ahead and show you how to install it. Now it is important to have our crossbar spread between 27 and 39 inches. We've got 28 inches here today. It's going to work for us. It's also good to have bar over hang on our roof rack system to ensure that when our kayak is being loaded on our kayak lifter that we have good clearance between our vehicle and our kayak.
What we'll do is we'll place our kayak lifter on our crossbars and I'm going to make sure that it is scooted out this way as far as it will go on the outside of our vehicle that is. I'll come over here to my front clamp, it's got a fork style and this end just slides in underneath, we'll just put that around our bolt and both of our thumb screws are adjustable. You want to tighten this down evenly and the universal clamps on this kayak lifter are going to allow you to fit round, square, aero, elliptical in most factory roof rack systems. Let's go ahead and do the rear. That's going to complete our look at the Inno Kayak Lifter part number INA453. .
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 Customer Reviews)
This lift assist allows a single person to easily load a kayak onto a roof rack. Swing-out arm holds your boat upright - away from your vehicle - as you load it, and it stores on your crossbars when not in use. Easy, clamp-on installation.Worked like a charm!...I put a tandem Hobie mirage on top of a Jeep jk no problem man?? Ps . I’m 5’6” short and 61 years old ?? 651294
What a great purchase. My Kayak is slightly over 70 lbs, I'm older and short so getting a Kayak on top of our SUV was becoming a challange. The Inno Kayak lifter changes all that. Very pleased. Also the shipment arrived much quicker than I expected. 616588
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