re: How Much Canoe Would You Hang Out the Back of Your Truck?

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With that much boat hanging out back behind the back wheels, am I going to sideswipe cars/trees/grannies when I make turns? I'm trying to visualize if the boat will just follow me, or if it will swing way out to the side.

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I hauled a 14' flat in the bed of a 1984 short-bed Toyota pickup to every river, gravel pit, pond, ditch, lake, bayou in the Florida Parishes every weekend during high school and college. I would put a cinder block and an ice chest in the boat against the cab, and tie a rope from the nose of the boat to the bumper "just for looks." The only time I ever had an issue was when I hit a cow backing up in a pasture. She never moved until the boat hit her, then she somehow knocked the boat out of the back of my truck with her head. Hell, we used to stack flats 2-high when going on a float trip with 4 people. Put one boat on top of the other and carry on. When doing that, we'd draw straws to see who had to ride on top of the double-stacked boats (didn't have no king-cabs back then).