Yakima JayLow ($319*)
The Yakima JayLow comes from the USA and is built tough but has heaps of padding to protect your watercraft. The front edge is wedge shaped to help slide the kayak up into the 'J'.
Can be used for carrying 2 kayaks (with additional straps).
Quick fitting clamps attach to a wide range of crossbar profiles.
Wedge shaped front edge to assit with loading, tilt mechanism to lay flat when not in use.
What's in the box
The JayLow comes all you need to carry a kayak on your roof racks. That is a pair of cradles, heavy duty straps to secure your kayak to the cradles and bow and stern tie downs for additional restraint.
Key locking cores optional extra:
Yakima JayLow features
- Clamps to a wide range of roof rack
- Optional key locks $20 (lock cradles to racks)
- Very large contact area of pads
- Heavy duty padding
- Corrosion resistant
- Tool free installation
- Fits wide range of cross bars up to 38mm depth
- Includes bow and stern tie downs
- Supports one kayak up to 36kg or two boats with combined weight of 50kg or less
- Manufacturer's limited lifetime warranty
Compatible with these roof racks:
- Rhino Aero, Vortex Euro-square bar
- Thule Aero, Wing and square bar
- Whispbar
- Prorack P-Bar
- Rola Sports
- NOT SUITABLE for Rhino Heavy duty
Fitting instructions
What Steve thinks......
The Yakima JayLow has some unique features that I like. They have a huge amount of padding and they are built very strong. I like the ramp that forms the front edge which can really help with loading from the side. Also I always give bonus points when a kayak system comes complete with the stern and bow tie downs.
The cradles aren't the quickest style to fit to your crossbars but they are very universal, fitting to a wide range of cross bar profiles.