Now that I have the rack for my truck I was trying to figure out a way to get that kayak up on the roof a little easier. Keep in mind the extreme weighs 65 plus pounds and when you are dealing with a long object it tends to be hard to carry and I kayak by myself most of the time and I didn't want the thing falling on cars or breaking my back. So I sat down and sketched out an idea for a hully roller.
Materials:
- (2) sticks 3/4" pipe
- (1) stick 1.25" pipe
- (4) 3/4" elbows
- (4) 3/4" T joints
- (2) 1.25" coupling
- (2) foam floats from walmart

First I built the base that lays along the window of my truck. I took an elbow and connected a 3/4" pvc pipe to it and did the same on the other side. Once this was done I put a T joint on one end and had to figure out what angle I wanted it to lay in. Basically I wanted the hully roller to be at an angle that wasn't too high but high enough so I could roll the yak onto the kayak rack bars. Once the angle was complete I glued the base and the T joint together.

Now came the hard part, I also had to figure out a way to keep the thing from lifting when the kayak sat on the roller part. I figured out that if I made two bars in an "L" shape I could lay this on the top of my camper shell and under the kayak bars. This would keep the pvc base from lifting up when I loaded the kayak onto it. I connected the second set of T joints to the first T joints and glued them but did not add the cross bar yet.

Basically the roller part is made up of 1.25" pvc that uses the 3/4" stuff as an axle, its the blue thing in the middle of the picture below. I used two 1.25" couplings and placed them 3" apart to form a type of groove that the kayak would sit into. I also figured I'd have to put some sort of covering on it so the kayak wouldn't get scratched when I rolled it up. I ended up using 1.5" blue flat pool tubing, this was a mistake that I'll have to correct later because the kayak is cutting thru the tubing. It was also hard to slip that stuff over the pvc, I had to use rubbing alcohol to lube it and pull hard, it took about fifteen minutes!