well i've tried a lot of different ways to haul my yak to the water. tried loading it on top of my sequoia (too tall) and my wife was no help with loading it.
used my crv; worked well but car got into an accident so no longer around but it too was a two person job for me to load it and unload it.
bought a prius for the obvious reasons and tried to use the roof to transport the yak a little easier to load than the crv but still more troublesome than it was worth. the worst part with transporting it on top of the roof, noticed a big drop off on my fuel consumption (from 45 to 34 mpg).
so now i have turned to this......
it also doubles as my storage rack.