: I recently bought a very small car (Honda, Insight). Before I purchased the
: car I contacted several rack manufactures and they assured me they had
: kayak rack fit kits under development.

: They have since abandoned their efforts to design a rack for this car
: (..after I bought one of course). It is a small hatchback. I would like to
: build a kayak in three sections: bow, stern, and cockpit (I could fit two
: sections in the hatch back and store one section on the front seat). When
: assembled I would like to have a fun play boat for protected water.

: Can anyone recommend a design that would lend itself to being cut into three
: units? Hay, I there is a design for a segmented kayak, that would work
: too.

You could probably cut about any design into sections without too much difficulty. I think that Erez shows his on this link, and describes a pretty good break-down method. Basically, you just need to install two bulkheads instead of one at the ends of the cockpit section and cut between them and flatten both sides to match and install a method to attach them. If you follow Erez' link I believe he takes it all apart and explains his method. That... if not the answer you are looking for, will at least give you some concrete ideas.

http://www.freewebz.com/epoxy/

Even a Skin on frame may lend itself to the 3-piece sectional Idea. ??

Rehd