MT_Flyfisher
Life of the Party
Excellent point. I believe that an awning attached to the bars on my roof rack will be about 6’ high, + or - at The car. The poles on the Thule Outland awning (that I’m looking at) extend to 6’2”. In any event, there’s an advantage to being short, as I’m only 5’8” tall.Can you stand up under tarp awning deployed from the roof of a Suby? Thirty years ago I fished out of a couple different early eighties wagons and I found the rear hatch was where all the action was. I built a custom rack that had two 6 inch pipes for rods and a special homemade tarp that deployed over the rear hatch loved it. Folks around forks loved it and I got pulled over a few times by the state because they were curious about the rack. I painted the whole thing black and it looked menacing, like a rocket launcher. I have a van now and I went with a freestanding 12x12 canopy with walls if I want. I can set up where ever I want hell you could park that completely under it or in it with the walls. Food for thought. By the way i am typing this from the Olympic suites motel waiting for daylight listening to the wife snore. Here's to a beautiful day fishing.
I wish I could have seen the setup that you used to have. I bet that was neat! I haven’t entirely ruled out an awning that would extend over my hatch, and could use one similar to what you did. In fact, I had made one for my Ford F150 truck that I just sold, that had an ARE truck cap on the back. I tied a tarp to the rear bar on the roof rack on the ARE, extended it over the open hatch, lowered the tailgate, and used the 2 adjustable height poles that I have for my Kelty Noah (ground mounted) tarp, and I was in business. (Those poles extend to about 10’ high. I don’t remember exactly, but they go high.) I could probably use that same setup now with my Subaru.