boards on roof racks

I've never had a problem. Are your racks spaced far enough apart?

 

Don't think it'll be any worse than surfing the board hard for a couple of hours

 

Make sure your board is upside down and the fins are in front... You see them flex when they are wax up with the nose forward. The front of the board gets pushed up because of the rocker. The nose is pointing up so when you start driving wind will push it up...
It is bad for your board and you look like a kook.

 

guessing your board is glassed and see the cracking its probably the way you have your board on your rack. Like how nynj said, I always have my boards fins front and wax on the pads. I carry both my glassed and epoxy on top. but if you can make it work where it can fit inside your car (put backseats down, arrangements, etc) carry it inside to keep flying road debris from damaging it.

 

Generally I put mine in the passenger seat with the seat reclined. Pull the head rest out if you have to. Doesn't work for a longboard, but I can get 3 or 4 short b's in there. I only put them topside if I have to.

 

Maybe putting it/them in a board bag before you put em up top will help, and it sure helps keep them from sun exposure. Can't hurt.

 

I would try to get them in the car... If you don't have the right kind of rack then the actual straps can eventually cause pressure dings on the rails and eventually cracks... If your just cruzing around town it's ok- but if you gotta tighten Them up for high speeds ... Ya well.... Put the board in a board bag or get it in the car some how... Back in the day I had a ford escort and was able to fit a 9'4 longboard in it...

 

Just make sure you don't do this:

 

For what it's worth, I just bought a board from a shaper who drives a van and racks his boards on top.

 

Good Point!....My Yakimas are in the very front and very rear of the roof giving excellent stability for even my longboard and I always use a bag when transporting/ I have seen racks close together and I feel there would be more chance for vibration that way.

 

I've never understood fins forward. What's up with that? Your surfboard is meant to travel through time and space nose first, why do you put it on fins first?

 

Because if the board starts to slip out toward the rear while you're driving, the fins will get caught on the straps and perhaps prevent total disaster. One more level of protection. If the fins are toward the back there's nothing to stop it from sliding out.

 

I always figured tail first because there is generally a little more meat to the board that way to deal with all the air coming up the windshield.

 

Why is your board slipping? My board rack only allows smaller boards to fit in just the right spot. It couldn't slip straight back, and would have to be a catastrophic strap failure to pop out. I also have rubber on the place where the rocker sits in the rack. For those reasons, I have fins back. This is more aerodynamic and places less stress on the board, though there is not a whole lot of force on the board anyways.

 

Besides, with fins forward you have a better chance at decapitating the other driver in a Head-on collision, but stress fractures will be the least of your problems.

 

there is going to be so much wax all over the interior of beautiful 7series...

 

I saw this exact thing when leaving Cocoa last weekend, kook was on the highway headed for the beach, after the swell had all but gone.... hope he had fun

 

I travel quite a bit and always use my roof racks for my LB and SUP, but I put my 6'4" inside, mainly cause it's my new board and I don't want to take any chances on it, but i'm sure it would be fine too if I chose to put it up there, it's just easier to toss it in the back of the Tahoe.

As far as the LB / SUP go, the only damage I put on them with roof racking them is when I was first getting familiar with the tie down straps that I got, they aren't the typical kind and I put a few pressure dents on the rails but nothing major, the key is to not tighten them too much, it's easy to do this so just make them snug but not to the point of causing unessary stress on the decks of your boards. If you got a board bag, use it, if not, no worries, I don't use em and my boards seem to be ok. And like others have already said, upside down and fins forward, and the straps should be closer to the nose / tail than the center of the board. Front strap goes just behind the center fin. Something else I do is I put rubber tubing between boards if I am stacking them. I get that from Home Depot / Lowes, hope this helps.