The heads will catch on the rack and chew it up, and might damage the paint on the car as well if you touch the roof. For many years we have molded on a composite fiberglass support during manufacture. Besides eliminating all the shortcomings of the other systems, SEDA canoes in this way add four additional thwarts. These help to increase the rigidity and stiffness of the hull. The SEDA way is a more time consuming and expensive procedure, but it greatly increases the quality of our boats and we have yet to have had a single failure of our system.
Success speaks for itself.
The second important difference is the shape of our ABS gunnels. Regardless of surface water conditions, whenever you paddle for any length of time there will be water splashed in the hull. We have designed our ABS gunnels with a large lip on the outside to deflect the waves and water splashing on the hull. Conversely, we have eliminated the inside lip so you can easily drain any inside water by turning your canoe just slightly on its side. This is not true of most other canoes.