DeckHand saddles allow you to transport a kayak on your roof rack crossbars. Felt-lined saddles allow easy loading from the rear of vehicle and provide maximum stability and protection. Universal mount. Tie-downs included.
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Speaker 1: Today, we'll be taking a look at and showing you how to install, the Yakima Deckhand Kayak Carrier with tie downs, part number: Y04083-2.The Yakima Deckhand Kayak Carrier is perfect for carrying one kayak on your vehicle's roof. This is going to be great for sea, river, recreational and most fishing kayaks. The flexible saddle provides maximum support for your kayak and conforms to the shape of your kayak.The Yakima Deckhand Carrier comes with four straps, two low straps and two anchor tie down straps, one for the bow and one for the stern. The bow and stern straps have plastic covering on the portion that's going to touch your vehicle, that's going to help to prevent any scratches or abrasions. The cam buckle strap has a rubber cover to protect your kayak from any scratches or abrasions. It also comes with a strap keeper to hold up your excess.The Yakima Deckhand has a carrying capacity of one kayak, with a weight capacity of 80 pounds.
The saddles are covered in felt to help slide your kayak in place and make for easier loading from the rear of your vehicle. The Yakima Deckhand fits round, square, arrow and elliptical and most factory crossbars with a minimum crossbar spread of 24 inches. The carrier has the option to knock out this plastic core here and insert the same key system lock core to help prevent theft and tampering. This carrier comes with a limited lifetime warranty and is quick and easy to install. We'll show you how to do that now.I've gone ahead and opened up our clamp, we're just going to place this onto our crossbar.
Next, we can start to tighten down our knob and secure our clamps around our bar. The only thing you want to make sure of is that it is in line with our front cradle. Now, we're ready to load up our kayak.Now, that we have our kayak secured on the top of our vehicle, we're going to strap it down. Before we do so, we're going to take our strap keeper and just insert it so that it's attached to our load strap. We want it closer to our cam.
Then, we can take this portion of our strap and throw it over our kayak. Now, we'll start by feeding our strap through our strap keeper here at the top. Now, we'll take our strap and feed it through the keeper down here. Again, we'll take it through that bottom keeper and up through the top keeper here. Now, we'll take the end of our strap and put it through our cam buckle.
We'll tighten that down completely and fold up our strap for our strap keeper. Now, we'll repeat the same process for the back half of our kayak.We've got our two load straps secured down and we're next going to secure our bow and stern straps. We're going to start by taking this buckle strap, we're going to feed it through the loop on the end of our kayak and feed it through itself. We'll tighten this up. We'll take our hook strap and we're just going to feed a portion of this strap through our buckle. Now, we'll want to find a metal place on our vehicle to secure this to. We want to make sure it's not plastic, so we're going to use our safety chain loops here on our hitch. Then, we can take up that slack and we'll tie up our excess. We can repeat the same process for the front of our vehicle.That's going to be our completed look at the Yakima Deckhand Kayak Carrier with tie downs, part number: Y04083-2.
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 Customer Reviews)
DeckHand saddles allow you to transport a kayak on your roof rack crossbars. Felt-lined saddles allow easy loading from the rear of vehicle and provide maximum stability and protection. Universal mount. Tie-downs included.Good communication along with best price I could find on car top kayak carrier. 411321
Good simple secure. 2nd set because like the 1st ones performance. 417513
I got these to replace the Yakima Mako saddles. These are very similar saddles with the same strapping system as the Mako but these are so much easier to mount, adjust, and remove. The single sliding mechanism is a breeze to use and fits several size bars. I use these to transport Surfski Kayaks and they conform well to the haul and keep the kayak in place without needing to tighten the straps too hard and chance cracking the haul. Product was received as advertised and on time. Great service. 414391
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